Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 July 1947 — Page 4

ghs I Across U. Su "Lands Job With De Mille

Woman Writes Steady Stream of Letters

To Producer While Camping Out on Trek . By VIRGINIA MacPHERSON, United Press Staff Correspondent : HOLLYWOOD, July 23.—Betty Harries, 30, of Charleston, W. "Wa. swiped her pa's gasoline credit card and her ma's groceries.

She closed out her $105 savings account, and set out on a pil-

eo De Mille for a job, She landed the job today. She crossed the U. 8. in a battered blue coupe } ith four ragged retreads. She slept in the front seat to stretch t dollars: And she sini) fires 2, Jamuireer | oy inside Mr. Big's pi pine- panelled smoke than fire. sanctum. . “T've slept in a bed just five times, NOt because ' she's a gregn-eyed since 1 started out May 32” Betty blond, either, Betty admits right said. ‘I wore T-shirts and blue Off she’s no glamour girl. jeans to save on washing, and I “I'm a newspaper reporter,” she borrowed a gasoline iron at Lake sald. She was tired, Betty was, of Arrowhead to press the dress I wore pounding out weddings and obituto see Mr. De Mille in. It didn't aries for the Niagara Falls, N. Y. took too good.” [Gazette, | “He Spells Hollywood" But when she finally crept into She picked Mr, De Mille as her | Hollywood she parked the dying objective because to her “He spells! blue coupe outside Paramount stuHollywood.” | dio, where Mr. De Mille works. “And all the way across the That was as far as she got. She country I' wrote him letters about looked at herself and was too scared | what was happening to me and my [to go inside the gates. dachshund, Heide,” Betty said. “But, Her hair wasn't curled and her I only signed my first name. hands were all nicked and cal“I guess he kept wondering who !loused. (Those campfires.) this ‘Betty’ was who talked about “I slept out there two nights” building campfires and chopping Betty went on.. “Then I° turned wood and sleeping in her car.” around and started home. But beBut it all paid off. _8he Actually fore 1 left I wrote Another letter

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Appeal Prepared On Closed Shop Law | TALLAHASSEE, Fla, July 23 (U. |P.), — Union officials prepared an appeal to the U, 8, supreme court today from the Florida supreme court's ruling upholding the state's constitutional law prohibiting the |closed union shop. | The suit to halt enforcement of ithe “right - to - work” amendment was brought in Tampa, Fla, by local unions of the American Federation of Labor.

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Of 7h baies. May Kill Again

Crime Expert Doubts 6, Responsible

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today he murdered. murderer might strike again _elsewhere. The grime expert, Dr. Lemoyne | Snyder, Lansing, Mich), said it appeared that 6-year-old Roger Gue Jr. was telling the truth when {he said in his original story that (“a big boy In a white coat” did the killing. The child later “confessed” to the killings himself and then returned to his original story. | Dr. Snyder, called in by County Prosecutor D. D. McLaughlin, added | that a fall would not have caused the fatal injuries to the infants. Officials Are Split Meanwhile’ city and county officials broke completely on thelr investigations of the deaths, Massillon Police Chief Stanley Switter sald he believed the Gue child's “confession” and considered the | case closed.

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Roger yesterday retracted his!S “confession” of the day before and|S told his mother that he had made = = up the tale because “I wanted an |S airplane ride.” He and that Pri-|S vate Detective James Ellis had of-| fered him the ride to tell his story, Mr. Ellis denied it. In_ Good Faith Mr. McLaughlin, a Democrat, refused to place any faith in the “fanciful tale of a 86-year-old.” But Mr. -Switter, a Republican, quickly s accepted the story of the child and = maintained he was certain the boy's, = z cohfession was in good faith, “He |Z z looked me right in the eye as he'S told it,” Mr, Switter sald. Found in Cribs Mr. Switter further accused Mr. McLaughlin of “getting to the boy's, mother and convincing them that the confession was made up. If the|S prosecutor still thinks it's murder = £ let him bring in the murderer. £ Then I'll believe it.” The two babies, 9-week-old Rosemary Morton and 8-week-old Diane = Brand, died of fractured skulls'S shortly after they were found lying|= at the foot of their eribs by Nurse|= Marian Sellick June 6. Coroner E.|= C. Reno ruled the deaths homieide. |

Amvets Charter Bill Signed by Truman

WASHINGTON, July 23 (U, P.)— = President Truman today signed |= = legislation making Amvets the first world war II veterans’ organization to be officially recognized by con-, gress. The bill approved Amvets’ national] charter and gave the organization legal status equal to that of the|= Américan Legion, Veterans of |S 2 Foreign Wars, Disabled American £ Veterans and United Spanish War|2 Veterans,

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