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THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1947

'Hands-

Trial Delayed Again

Foot' Slaying

Witnesses Il, Say Attorneys For Pollard

Nov. 3 Date Set In Hancock Court By ROBERT BLOEM

lay ahead today in the al-|

trial of Howard Pollard,

foot” murder of Leland Miller here in April 1946.

Tough Job on Budget,

More months of ‘waiting facing a critical budget situation.

New Mayor Faces

Lacks Trained Help

Tyndall Planned to Keep Outlay Near Last Year's, Hadn't Worked Out Details

By RICHARD LEWIS

THE DEATH of Mayor Tyndall leaves a provisional that he saw no reason to change se . A : {his position on the bill, which be city administration headed by George L. Denny, attorney, vetoed three weeks ago and which now is on its second swing through CONgress. {

It also leaves a key department—the office of .the city :

ready - long - delayed murder | controller—in a state of disorganization, since Mr. Denny, |Jan, 1, 1048, instead of July 1, 1947 who served as controller for three months, is now occupied|—the revived G. O. P. measure is _ .

charged with the “hands and by his duties as mayor.

Mayor Tyndall had d Twndall Funeral Mayor raat vad mace un Tyna] Funera

(New Tax Bill To Be Vetoed By Truman

exactly the same as the one Mr. Truman vetoed. |

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$8 SpITa Planned by VA Here

Sees No Reason To Change Mind

remem non Trooper Beaten, Tells How He Captured His Captors

duction bill. ‘I Thought | Was

Senate Democratic Leader Alben W. Barkley said so flatly after a And Mr. Truman himself told a! ' . news conference shortly afterward A Goner, Says Officer By GEORGE E. WELDEN

conference with- the. President to-, A STATE police trooper today

day. captured three men after he nad been beaten up and forced at guns point to drive them two miles. His eyelid puffed up and suffering from severe bruises on his lips,‘1ace shoulders, Trooper \Villiam Woods told The Times: “I thought 1 was a goner." At 1:30 a. m, Trooper Smith was |called to investigate a wrecked car

1 of 2 Largest U.S. Centers

500 Bed General Facility Proposed

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, July 10.— Indianapolis is. expected to become the site for one of the nation’s two major hospital

Except for the effective date—

The house sus-| tained the first veto by a two-vote margin.

‘Million Hospital

Expected to Be

Pollard’s attorneys, with the co- budget, on which he was working operation . of * the Marion

coyn-| the day before his death, but did To Be Tomorrow ty prosecutor's office, won postpone- not have time to execute all of -his,

ment this week from the scheduled plans, ‘ date of July 16 to Nov. 3. The trial] He did, however, tell Mr. Denny, is to be held in Hancock county cir-|and experts who were assisting in cuit court at Greenfield. {the formulation of the highly imThe action marked the third de- portant city budget the policy he

Services

Private services will be held to-|ference he had explained

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trial, | It was originally scheduled |

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. | WINS DELAY—Howard Pol lard has won a new delay in his trial, Ze Bags rR Whe Lg ny for “trial in Marfon™ county -eriminal court last Oet. 28." Pollard won his first delay by having a special judge called in to hear the case instead of the. regular. judge, William D. Bain. i He then won a. change-of venue “ *ffom here to. thé HEheock COUPE. Hancock Circuit Judge John: B. -Hinchman said-he granted-the delays when Pollard's attorney, Frank A. Symmes Sr, and deputy County] Prosecutor Glenn Punk of Indian-| apolis appeared before him and made a joint request. Mr. Symmes originated the motion for postponement on grounds some of the defense witnesses were ill. | At the same time, Mr. Funk cited | as additional reasons for delay the difficulty of obtaining a jury during the busy season in an agricultural community, and the nearness of the

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et t— : e , tulations, saying:| ~ ) 1 o 6am... 63 10a.m.... 71 | vile (for 1947. The attorney has practiced law £epiqd congra : ; * sales ~‘heca Sot 8 vasafion period, which starts|. , _° = 2 am "1 ‘Michigan Man Named | Every moment you are behind in Indianapolis since he was grad-| “How sweet. Thank you very much. back sales tax me effective {kerchief masks. They brandished a 5 caves . M..0 nH v Lm nt 2 | e 2 ‘ y : ; hotgun and pistol, forced Mr. Mar- , . ga m..... 63 12 (Noen).. 71 x ne the wheel be alert, careful and con- uated from Indiana university , law We are very happy » : s \ / ’ . a Has Beal 1s Raps’... | SRM. 8 12 Noon). | Mental-—Health -DiteCtOr | erate ot the. other motorists and school here. in 91%, oe... | It Was & day of excitement and, Ob TCR GREECE OL EF saris ind hi friends. into-the cr. Hancock. County Prosecytor- Me}- “| Appointment of Dr. Charles E | pedestrians. Police warn that unless| During world yar I he was a happiness for the 21-year-old heir-| °. "" olled- from Whiting, Ind..| 20d drove to a secluded neighbor-

ville- Watson eonfirmed that there might have been some difficulty gelting a jury, but added: “We'd have the same trouble any time. People who have. to work for a living never particularly like to be called to jugy duty at $5 a day.” Pollard, who-through similar de-| laying tactics and a “charmed | life” from a police standpoint, has} beat a series of 18 “raps,” ranging from small fines for speeding to an outright conviction for grand larceny. In April, 1946, he was accused of murdering Miller and then buming his body in a Boone county shack. The hands and a crippled foot . were severed from the body in what police believed was' an attempt to avoid identification of the body through fingerprints or the physical defect, . Was Free on Bond 4 Even as he was in the office of the Jate Sheriff Otto Pétit writing out a statement that he shot Miller in self-defense,’ he was under a one-to-10-year reformatory sentence for grand larceny. ‘He had been convicted in ecircdit court only two months before but was. free under $2500 bond while his attorneys prepared an appeal to the supreme court, . 'The appeal never was completed 80 the conviction stands. Yet, rec- " ords show, Pollard has yet to serve a day of his reformatory sentence. Instead, he is lodged in the comparatively comfortable Hancock: county’ jail awaiting the elusive murder trial

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iv». 23 Ruth Millett, 19 veione 28 19 Music- ...... . 28

lay in bringing the murder case 0] wanted to follow. .

weeks ago to the city controller call

{could not be approved by the Re-| deat

| morrow afternoon for Mayor Rob-

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1948 budget about the same as the| cremated. $14 million expenditure for this| Only the immediate family of the | year. [retired major general Tnd wartime

: v —lly {The details of earrying -out-budget’ mayor will attend. In keeping with

policy had not heen completed, how- | the general's often expressed -deever,” and" this is the most Press-| sire, for an unostentatious funeral, | ing problem .now faced by Mayor | the family has requested that there Denny. | be no flowers. Although it was not made public| Veteran of three wars, who had | at this time, the budget requests! been decorated by both the French submitted by department heads five | and American governments, the 70-year-old mayor -died -yesterdey: He for an expenditure of $2,508,000 niore was found dead in his béd at than this year’s appropriation, | 10 a. m. by his chauffeur, With a hotly-contested municipali election coming up this fall, a bud-| Although he appeared in robust get increase of such magnitude he, examining : doctors said | had been the result of -a publican command. | heart attack. * = = | As the city mourned the death of THE BUDGET, now about half Gen. Tyndall, the reins of’ governfinished, is due for presentation to ment passed to George L. Denny, city council in a month. From controller. ‘ now until then, the new mayor| Pirst a ntme will have to work fast-to €ut down mayor. whi Will serve oti] January requests and get it.in shape. ‘ Not for five years has City Hall| was that o ril 8. been so depleted of experienced of-| controller. a Le Oper 32 etig ficers as it is today. ‘Soh of ‘a three-time mayor of the Mr. Denny Himself has served in city - 38-year-old ‘Mr. Dénny ‘anthe administration only three{nounced he would follow “out the months. 2 policies of Gen. Tyndall. There will .. He. was appointed city, controller. ye. no major personnel changes; he when Roy Hickmaf resigned to-en-promised. ~~ Tren ter the Republican mayoralty -cam«~i “City Hall to Be Closed paign.” ~~ . | ‘Both city hall and the American An attorney and one-time stu- region national headquarters will dent of Woodrow Wilson at Prince- be closed. tomorrow. The general

{Continued on Page 5—Column 1) had been first treasurer of the] Today telegrams and messages of

y | condolence for Mrs. Tyndall and { their only son, Samuel 8. Tyndall, | 0 ear PW at New York public relations execu- | | tive, were received af the 2016 N.|

LOCAL TEMPERATURES Meridian st. residence.

time of his death was secretary of the Legion Endowment fund corp.

“" Drag out your rainy weather togs Zeller, Lansing, Mich. as director] again today. lof the Indiana Council for Mental | The weather bureau predicts an| Health and superintendent of the occasional shower today but prom-| Madison state hospital was anises clearing weather by late to- nounced today by Governor Gales. night or early tomorrow. A rise| As director of the mental health | in’ temperature was predicted for council, Dr. Zeller, who has been tomorrow. | director of the department . of Meanwhile, -15 inches of rain was| mental health of Michigan, suc-

day.

twin beds knotted around the neck. An orange bath towel had been

~~ Torn Photograph

Also Investigated stuffed into her mouth,

NEW YORK, July 10 (U. P)— Police said the only sign. of a Scores of middle-aged businessmen struggle in the room was an over—whose names appeared in the six furned lamp. However, two conaddress books kept by Mrs. Sheila tusions on the woman's chin looked Mannering—were questioned, today about their relationship with the radio actress. She was found strangled yesterday in her fashionable apartment. ‘ Police Commissioner Arthur W, Wallander took charge of the investigation. and assigned 60 of his best detectives to checking one by one the 200-odd names. ' Many of the names in the books were well-to-do businessmen. Only a few women were listed. Close to 200. persons were questioned during the night. One was a man whose signature was on an uncashed $20 check found in the slain woman's apartment. ! Name Kept Secret Police refused to divulge his name| 7 but said he told them he had been home with his wife Tuesday afternoon and evening. Commissioner Wallander said none of those questioned was a suspect. and none was held. Blond, attractive Mrs, Mannering, 49, a former ‘radio bit actress—

Met Given. | Mis. Boosevel

‘as Bessie K. Jed in her| nhattani. ay by her|

: ert H. Tyndall in Flanner & Bu-/he should change his position if! : GENERALLY; it was to keep the| chanan mortuary. The body will be congress should send him the same Cincinnati.

Heart Attack Blamed ~~ |3. Senate passage: was expected to- leave hi

“fwhen the genera¥'s "term “expires, 195 members

| Veterans organization and at the)

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| Fate Up to- Senate { Now, however, there are enough | votes in the house to override a new | { veto. - The outcome thus will depend fon the close contest in the senate.

{Senate debate on the new bill began

two miles west of Aurora on U. 8, 50. » » » | AS HE approached he saw ‘three men leaving the scene. “T stopped them. Two of the men, {Harry D. Holland, 23, and Paul Kid{well, 32, denied they were occupants {of the car. A ‘third man, Denton {O0. Willoughby, admitted they had {wrecked it. All of them were from

centers of the veterans administration, Senator William E. Jenner (R. (Ind.) announced {oday. He sald he was informed that the VA would build an $8 million, 500-bed, general hospital. ‘The VA informed Senator Jen|ner's office that the U, 8, budget bureau already has asked for all cost data on two sites considered for a previously planned $3'% mil~

Mr. Truman told the news cons to Mr Barkley that he saw no reason why

bill it sent him before. | “Both - Holland and Kidwell Speaker Joseph W. Martin Jr. jumped on Willoughby for squealsaid he “hopes. that after looking | IDB: As 1 started to assist Wilinfo the situation carefully Mr, 1oughby, tHe pair Jhmpdd he. Kid. Truman will find that it wie-be. Well Kicked _me ih the. eye. and” possible to give adequate tax reduc-| face. Holland grabbed my 38 tion.” He.said he felt certain “the| Service pistol from my belt and house will vote to override” a veto. handed it to Kiva The house approved the revived| bill Tuesday loge vote of 302 to 112! WILLOUGHBY stirted to run —26 votes more than the two-thirds '0 ® nearby house for help. Kidneeded to override a veto. (well fired twice at him, but missed. Yesterday, thé senate finance SKidwell pointed the gun at me.

comm d » bill, “to! And . said ‘let's kill the «— and ittee approved the bill, 10 to tint To weeds*~1- figured

morrow or Saturday. Then in 10{™ time was up. a days after he gets the bill again, [FOr some reason they decided

Mr. Truman will send it back to I should drive them into town. I co. i nati men today after they had beaten him and forced him congress ‘for the ‘decisive votes on knew I had a 22 caliber pistol o Nee te miles Y y: Ooid Spring rd. hosiptal. This. land overriding a veto. ‘hidden under the car seat and I : rr i earmarked for the VA. While the house seems certain to tried to stall for time. I told them | drunk, demanded that I drive fast-) THEN the men ordered me to Ft. override a veto, a ciose vote is ex- I had dropped my keys somewhere er. Blood was streaming down my | stop. We were 200 yards from the pected: in the senate, where pro- [on the ground. face from my swollen eye and 1 police station and I could see the major center at onebts of the measure were as- a could hardly see the road. I told policeman getting out of the .car ever, 1c red of at least 60 votes. 1 ail! “WE know ‘where they are, get him I was afraid to drive faster that had been following me. The vote. it: would: take ithem out of your pocket and let! | because I couldn't see. Then Hol-|men then jumped out on the ht 04: votes 10 override : {get going,” they said, “Kidwell land slapped me across the back side of the car. J ” The G.OP Tieasure would re- | 1aDded Hampton the gun and 1 of the head with the gun. “I ‘reached under the seat and duce income taxes 10.3 to 30 per, ried the, par, ‘Hampton re-| '®As we came into Aurora, T saw pulled out the hidden gun. Sur-| cent. It would save taxpayers an | moved my gun belt and shells. | a city police car following me, but estimated $4 billion annually, |

“Kidwell, who appeared very it turned off. ittontinugl a. Up 1a Yor — sa Sith Named Princess Wears Probe ‘Bargair’ | To End Needless Lh gt nsole

| sti iThree-Diamond--- |" Coie Deaths in Traffic U.S. COMMISSION Engagement Ring _ Sale of Cigarets

LONDON, July. 10 (U. P.).—Prin- | ‘L : result from traffic accidents cess Elizabeth wore a three-diamond Mai Orger Plan d In the last 24 hours two pedes- | Sworn Into Office een as lax Do ge

Medical Center

hospitals “near medical’ centers. | However, the VA said it preferred a site near the present VA hospital on Cold Spring rd. over a proposed location on White river near the | ndiana university medical center.

turned down for tife smaller Hospital, because its pufchase would have boosted costs an’ additional half million dollars.’ The govern ment owns 190 acres adjoining the

TURNS THE TABLES—Trooper William Woods seized two

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CHICAGO, July 10 ®, P).— Harry Margaris, 52, saved his money for more than a year for a trip to

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{engagement ring on her finger and his native Greece. trians were struck by automobiles| . Asa J. Smith, Indianapolis attor- By BOYD GILL I= S. commissioner to fill the |batten. | today of reports that cigarets were mobile preparatory to leaving - for death toll in the

(a Huile oi her fnes Res. t Last night, with $4310 on bis peri s > d a marine veteran of both|. ®Ne e cheers of London on| = ynited Press Staff Correspondent | son, Mr, Margaris and three friends i> Invinagolss. 54 Oy a has - been appointed | ber betrothal to Lt. Philip Mount- The state opened an investigation | were placing his bags in an autobeen killed. The { | vacancy left by the death of Fae W.| She posed with Philip for engage- | hong prigred Joe sale in Indians | the airport where Mr. Margaris was county already is 54 Traffic Deaths | Patrick. ’ {ment pictures and laughingly ac-| $1.39 a carton—the same “bargain” i, poarq a plane for Europe. Here This Year | price asked before the 3-cents-a-| ry, men apeared, wearing hand-

every’ driver and each pedestrian private overseas and was wounded | ess. presumptive fo the - British x " 5 i : makes himself personally responsi- dt Belleau Woods, After the war he: throne. + i. Jeg per circulated Widely in Indi-| "our on they demanded Toney. ME. ble for prevention of traffic fcci- was secretary to Harry ™ New, Alter posing for pictures—she In| They offered popular brands at Margaris gave them only $500. They dents the death toll will mount to U. S. senator from Indiana, ia dress of daffodil yellow silk and $1.39 for 10 packs, and said nothing | searched him and found the other 55 or 56 by this time next week. Elected to Legislature {Philip in his naval uniform-=she oo. hc oy Indiana state tax. | $3800 in his money belt. Then they Drive carefully—walk carefully. In 1923, Mr. Smith was elected | sallied forth in public. | “It looks like the old mail-order | drove off in the car. |to the legislature as a Republican | The first cheers to ring In her| oi My Myers said. !

TRUMAN SHAKES HANDS land was instrumental in the cn- ears came from a érowd in.front of |. “0 © 446d that the enforcement! . { WASHINGTON, July 10 (U. P.)— | actment of laws governing credit Buckingham palace. They came as! 00 of hig office would “investi- | en 1 e enn 3 recorded in Indianapolis early to-| ceeds Clifford L. Williams, who re- ‘Young Démocrats from 30 states ynions. Elsewhere in the state a!signed last March. As superintend- called at the White House today to]

she emerged -with' her sister andi oate from the Whiting angle.” He has handled many criminal parents for the unveiling of the!” wat $1.39 a carton, they couldn't! . President and civil actions in Marion county ‘Battle of Britain memorial in West- | possibly be figuring in the s0-cenis- [J | courts and took part in the prose- {minster abbey, where her wedding o %a rion tax Mr, Myers said. ! esp p g y ~~ “I cution of D. C. Stephenson. ji be held. i | "He said the cards had ‘“covered| i N | The new commissioner joined the| ¢ At the abbey thousands of people iy, city pretty well.” ‘| . In accordance with the request iste in OO! | marine corps reserve prior to world had gathered. They cheered the! wyyy even a. state policeman | of ‘the laté Mayor Robert H. Tynwar II and in 1940 was called to princess again and again and she got ohe.”. Mr. Myers said. | dall's family, the Indianapolis cenAlthough the cards were mailed | lennial program at Butler bowl ce from Whiting, addressed to “cig-| Will Dpen Fig 8:30 p. m. tomorrow He served with the .dst marine : : aret smokers” in various business! 85 planned. and then Ohioan Wins Approval, 1 professional concerns, the This announcement was made to\printed text of the message on the! day by Harry V. Wade, executive { instructed the prospective Vice chairman of the centennial | commission,” sponsor of the six-

| ks music festival Louis, Mo., postoffice box number, | Wee k . . the | Mr. Wade's statement read in

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(as if they had been made by a blow | by s6meone wearing a heavy ring, division: for two year : | detectives said. There also was went on special duty ht the of- For Place on FCC blood on one of the beds. fice of the secretary of the navy. waASHINGTON. July 10 (U. P.) — cards Dr. Henry Siegel, assistant medi- This assignment took him OVer & rp, cenate commerce committee buyer to send his money, to a St. cal examiner, said death was large part of the world. today unanimously approved caused by asphyxiation from Before the end of the war he was nomination of Rep. Robert F. Jones| The advertisement offered the ar. strangulation, He said the woman assigned to Camp Lejeune, N. C. pn {, the federal communica- | cigarets at & minimum order of | part: “After mature deliberation had been dead from 12 to 24 hours as camp inspector and commanding... oom micsion. “ {three cartons’ | and on advice of the general's offiwhen the body was discovered, {officer of the guard battalion as & pw. oto i effect rejected | , Actually, there was no law vio-| cial and personal family, it was Also found in the apartment was lieutenant colonel. ' |charges that Rep. Jones once .be- lation in the distribution of the| Unanimously decided to proceed a cigar butt—evidence of a male| A -native of Wabash, Ind. he Is longed to the Ohio Black Legion, cards, he said, but there would be | 28 planned. Robert H. Tyndall was visitor — a half-empty bottle of 8 graduate of DePauw university.’ anti-Negro, anti-Catholic anti. [if the cigarets were delivered with-| ® good soldier in body, mind and Scotch whisky and numerous pho- He and his wife live at 303 Buck- Yow organization A lout stamps attached. | spirit, and he would be the first tographs of Mrs. Mannering taken ingham dr. tm ot ricreb aero to command ‘go forward.' His passin night clubs, | “Mr. Smith was sworn into office

' yg. ~. . o = ing will, be appropriately observed One of the photos had been torn this morning by Federal Judge Roo- | Flying Disc in His Garden, at Butler bowl before the opening

in two, leaving only a picture of ert C. Baltzell, who made the ap- . . curtain tomorrow evening.” ‘Californian Wants $1000

Mrs. Mannering. Police ‘said the pointment. picture may have been torn in|_ | p———— {Comiaued on Fags 3--Cowwn 3 BULLET! N | Radio-Controlled and Jet Propelled, He Says; | Eight. people ‘were _ in. Fire Department, Takes Custody jured in a three-car smash- By TOM BRIGHT. United Prow SIf Component up this afternoon near Val- NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Cal, July 10.—Construction Engineer Rus-

. Mi S . | sell Long insisted today that a galvanized iron disk which. plopped into} ley Mills on Ind, 67 south | his’ flower garden last night. was a radio-controlled, jet-propelled “fly- |

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“west of ‘Indianapolis: ‘The. | ing saucer.” : | exciting days er for th injured were taken to Meth- , “How do I go about getting that $1000 reward?” he asked. | youngsters. to lose out on odist and City hospitals for: The disc soared into Mr. Long's garden late last night, he said. I their favorite om % | exploded 154eet above ground with) =p obviously "landed because it owell gladly mail you,

{a blue flash and a blast heard wassFunnin ; " { i . s g out of fuel. | + | around the neighborhood. Then IF) “po gypaust “stacks were burned | | plummeted down and skidded Along 110 0k by gases. vo

treatment. None was in : : critical condition. United States or Canada or

your Carrier will be glad

Free Cash— i Jo die edge of the house, dislodging ~ pojiee army intelligerice and FBI! sa . iy + k lag w k 3. i + @The Times Preak Sava | Mr. Long rushed out in his night J er nt am contest ; ends at midn shirt 4h TT Rr fee t deal Acme Telephoto hie ria dide web puting a heavy! ) A grea of trouble

York police today were check: ted in six address books kept was found yastarday in her been strangled. This pic. | nce found ia death room,

¥ou ‘still have time to: yellowish smoke out of two exhaust g ; 0 some of the free eash— , | pipes, like a car burning too much fpn.y thing | or only a few oil,” he sald. “A glass tube in the =p, | middie had a cherry-red glow that,

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lion VA installation in Indiana polis. Medical Center Rejovied Onee ~~ The ‘VA Délicy Hids been to locate

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