Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 July 1947 — Page 1
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Local Burglar Slain hy Police In Shelbyville
Shot Down in Attempt To Rob Filling Station
Times State Service SHELBYVILLE, J u ly 24. =A 24-year-old former Indianapolis cab driver was killed by police early today as he fled after attempting to burglarize a filling station here. “The dead man was identified as Charles Wayne Wright, of 1110 E. Vermont st., Indianapolis. The shooting occurred after Merchant Policeman Thomas Frisbee, 60, heard a noise in the filling station operated by Bruce Wright and called police. Bruce Wright is not
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related to the victim. Plunges Through Window When police arrived at the filling station shortly before 3 a. m,, the burglar plunged headfirst out a side window and started to run. Patrolmen Maurice Moberly and LeRoy Kelley and Sheriff Fred Courtney then opened fire. The fleeing man threw his hands in the
CHIEF OFFENDER—The intersection of Illinois and Washingfon sts, with Kentucky ave. is the noisiest spot in downtown Indianapolis: Sound tests show that the crossing at rush hour resounds with the racket of
air, the officers said, but continued to run. | His body was found at dawn In| a lumber yard about 100 yards from the filling station. He had been! struck in the back by a bullet. Two Men Questioned In the pockets of the dead mgn police found a receipt for payment
of a fine in Indianapolis municipal |,
court and & newspaper clipping de-' scribing a brawl last ycar in the 1400 block on Indianapolis’ E. Washington st. The clipping said Wright was shot during the brawl. Investigators were questioning! Harry Hardacre, 47, of 4789 Kingsley dr. Indianapolis, and Mitchell Ross, 39, of 2127 N. New Jersey st., Indianapolis, who were arrested on charges of drunkenness last night. Police believed the pair may have accompanied Wright here from Indisnapolis. : An alarm also was sent out for the arrest of a former Indianapolis man, now believed to live in Arlington. This man, police said, may have been the driver of a car in which Wright and the others, if they were with him, came 0 Shelbyville. Neither the car nor a driver has been found. Arrested 5 Times Indianapolis police reported. that ght had a police record of five dating back to Sept. 19, . 1941, when he was turned over to the juvenile aid division on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. No disposition was shown on that case.
Wright's police record showed he
paid $11 and costs and was sen-
tenced to five days in jail tor] On
reckless driving Nov. 18, 1941. March 4, 1946, he was arrested on| ‘ charges of. disorderly conduct, vagrancy and resisting an officer. He paid fines totalling $26 and costs and served 30 days in jail on that occasion. On Oct. 6, 1946 he paid $1 and costs after his arrest on a charge of malicious trespass. On June 14 this year he paid $10 and costs on a disorderly conduct county Windows Smashed The records do not show he was shot as described in the newspaper clipping, police said. It was believed to refer to the fracas which led to the March 4, 1946 arrest. ; Police said Wright apparently ha entered the filling station by smashing two side window panes, | then reaching in and unlocking the door from the inside, He was a native of Terre Haute and lived in Indianapolis with his mother, Mrs. Leona Wright, at the Vermont st. address. Surviving also are five brothers, Noel, 13; Keith, 22; Donald, 20; Milton, 15, and Robert, 16, and three sisters, Betty, 19; Marlene, 11, and Mrs. Thelma Welton, of near Hall, Ind.
SLAIN BURGLAR—Charles Wayne Wright, 24-year-old former Indianapolis cab driver, was cut down by Shelbyville fefica bullets as he fled a burgry
scene. ’
Expect Writs in Effort To Free Brunner, Linn
have sent a gun-carrying war veteran to the U. 8S. capitol on a visit that coincided with President Tru-
terday.
R. H. Spires, 39, of Augusta, Ga. questioners:
the big shots in Washington were
a train,
Big Shots’ Anger Capitol Gunman
Called ‘Coincidence’ Truman ‘Was There .
Photo, Page 9 WASHINGTON, July 24 (U. P..| —A desire for revenge against “the big shots” was reported today to
man's presence in the building yes- {
| The man, identified as Clifton |
was arrested on a charge of car-| rying a concealed weapon. He told
. ADDS TO DIN—A necessary avil in metropolitan traffic is the policeman’s whistle. dn noisy Indianapolis they must be shrill and some of them have the intensity of a pheumatic rock drill in action.
Hera Irvin Bailey blasts away.
“Every time 1 would get a job, f would get laid off. They told me
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Downtown Noise at Peak At 5 P. M. on Rainy Days
By VICTOR PETERSON «There is no train ‘running through downtown "Indianapolis, but a
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the'cause of it.” However, Secret Service = Chief James J. Maloney said agents who talked with Spires reported that he showed no ill feeling toward the President. Mr. Maloney said it apparently was a coincidence that both were in. the capitol at the same time. / ‘
THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1947
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U. S. Defense Stockpile Lags
Entire Year
1951 Now Earliest Date to Finish Job
By JIM LUCAS Scripps-Howard Stat Writer WASHINGTON, July 24. — The United States is a full year behind schedule with fits stockpiling. Last year, the army-havy munitions ‘board laid out a $2.1 billion spending program. It proposed - to | buy $300 million worth of war sur- | plus, and spend $360 million a year over a five-year period on foreign and domestic markets. Thus, it sald we could expect to be “reasonably self-sufficient” by 1051. Secretary of War Kenneth C. Royall, a board member, sald .that would “provide better insurance against war shortages than this nation—or any nation in history— has ever known.” That was last year. Today, the board says we won't reach that goal until 1952. Secretary Royall says it would be ‘“‘more correct to say we are now starting our first year's operations.” Our five-year buying program, even if we keep to our timetable, now is six, It may take longer, That: depends on congressional appropriations and the world market Little Done Until 1946 By law, the munitions board, through the bureau of federal supply, Is required to buy up strategic and critical materials “to decrease
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dependence by the United States upon foreign nations in time of national emergency.” Uncle Sam started stockpiling in 1939, But little could be done dur ing the war,“when everything we bought was needed by the military, We didn't begin operations for the future until July, 1046, : Last year, congress gave the munitions board $100 million. That is less than one-third the amount we must spend each year to achieve reasonable self-sufficiency in five years. If that rate is maintained
Eidson Freed
In Husband's Slaying
| {Jury Accepts
Mother's Plea Of Self-Defense
11 Women, One Man Turn in Verdict A criminal court jury this afternoon returned a verdict of not guilty in the case of Mrs. Marian Esther Eidson, 20, charged with first degree
murder. The jury deliberated only 50 min tes,
utes, ‘ She has been on trial for three days in connection with the hatchet~ kilMng of her husband, James Eidson, 37, at their apartment, 341 Park ave, last March 1. ! Mrs. Edson and other witnesses testified that she hacked her husband to death Rfter he threw = knife at" her And assaulted her sister, » ip Say Evidence Insufficient . Deputy prosecutors admitted in their arguments to the jury that testimony in the four-day trial was not sufficient to convict Mrs. Eidson on the first-degree murder charge returned by the grand jury several weeks ago. @ John Daily, deputy prosecutor, also said the evidence was not sufficient for conviction on a second« degree murder charge, bul stressed his opinion that Mrs. Widson was guilty of manslaughter, which carries a prison term of two-to-21-
Cites Selt-Defe
. Acme Telephoto CHARGED IN SLAYING~Glenn Robinson (above), 29-year-old taxicab drivar, today was formally charged with the rapemurder of Mrs, Jeanatte Reyman, former Hoosier housewife, by Atlanta, Ga., police.
Atlanta Cab Driver Charged With Slaying Mrs. Reyman
Accused of Murdering Hoosier Woman;
-Suspect’s Court Action for ATLANTA, Ga.. July 24 (U, P.).—Police 20-year-old taxicab driver, with the rape-murder of yman, preity wife of a Bogar}, Ga. tourist camp in shortly after moving herg from Indiana. Robinson's court action/ to win ‘freedom from | Mrs.
e pretty matron's hody ws a RAL Wi, | oy found. skull crushed and feet aad Sty tied he — wrapped like ‘a sister, Frances Bowman, and the hody of A pickup » ‘
mumm truck bearing an Indiana license,| Mr. Farb
about three weeks ago. Reyman had driven the
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got the hatchet and started ing her husband on the head after had threatened her life .by
1942 Pass in Pocket In Spires’ pocket police found a | pass to the senate visitors gallery {issued in 1942 by Senator Maybank | |(D. 8. C). The senator identified Spires as a former constituent who
had lived until recently in Ham-’
constant din beating your ears is the equivalent. At times the noise echoes thé crash of a heavy door slammed by an irate husband. : At other times it smashes the ears with the impact of a punch press
"and even mounts to the deafening rat-a-tat-tat of a vibrating pneumatic failed to spend all of its $100 mil-
rock drill Little wonder that old-timers and
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|we need 15 years to build up our stockplies. The board told eqngress it would come back for more. It didn't. It
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search foi her when she failed to return, Identified by Witnesses | Blood dripping from the body of the truck, parked in an alley in East
He reviewed the testimony which disclosed that Mrs. Eidson struck her husband with a hatchet ‘while he was criminally assaulting her 15-year-old sister Ra “This 1s one of the strongest seif=
burg, 8. C.
{ io .a ow newcomers to Indianapolis complain Local Noise Report Recalling that Senator John W.
about the noise. Little wonder that: The RCA sound-meter recorded Bricker (R. 0.) had been the target it is difficult to carry on a co- noise in various parts of Indianof a disgruntled constituent only herent conversation in the down- apolis as follows: 11 days before, Senator Maybank | town area. Butler university campus (normal), 55 | said: Indianapolis is just plain noisy. |G et™ Po b ¥ Home “Why that man, could have shot| Numerous and repeated com-| decibels: me or he could have put his arms plaints about the noise led The | Ilineis-Washington around me and hugged me, depend- | Times to secure a sound-level meter Gore ¢ ion tavier, W035 daclbble ing on how he felt at the moment.” | from RCA to survey the city. Bus Terminal thot), 20-75 decibels, “He didn't come up here of his Acocrding’ to general averages Circle (noisy), 83 decibels. own accord,” Senator Maybank con- |g, nn1ieq by the General Radio Co, |, Riviera Swimming Pool .(nejey), 80 tinued. “Someone sent him up here |, racturers of the meter, Indian- : and I'm going to have an investi- |, qs is noisier than it should be.
gation to find out who did.” Three days and nights of testing
French Pistol Found Faas capitol, Din Reaches Crescendo D
Spires was arrested by police in a washroom only 5 minutes Of, principal downtown intersecfons, Illinois and Washington sts.,
after the President had paid a surPe Wt» the Seale Shamber | with angling Kentucky ave., is the | noticed Spires “weaving as if he Chief offender. had been drinking,” and holding| Here, bumping over cross-rails are something in his hand that looked | east-west and north-south streetcars, trackless trolleys and busses. It is a favorite taxicab stand area
like a gun. The war veteran at first denied he was armed. But a search re- and the streets are main arteries for vealed an automatic 25-caliber national highway traffic and city noise reaches the general averige pistol of French design. There was motorists. of heavy travel, a noise which is al Trucks, supposedly barred from most one million times greater than the streets, rumble and backfire the hum of the family refrigerator.
one bullet in the gun and four more Washington-Meridian Intersecticn Next
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in Irvington (normal), 45-50
sts, . (hoisy), 90
| throughout the city and nearby environs proved this to be true.
uring Rush Hours across the intersection, ‘Add to this! the general babble of thousands of | voices, the stamp of walking, policeman's whistle, sputtering motorcycles, honking horns, crying news- | boys, downtown music and the end! result at rush hours is the crescendo | of a passenger train as it rockets by |
a few feet from an onlooker. | Even when traffic is light, the
were found in Spires’ pocket. The incident, ¢oming on the i heels of the Bricker shooting, prompted Senate Sefgeant-at-Arms Edward PF. McGinnis to urge an increase in the 142-man capitol police . force. Mr. McGinnis admitted it would be “highly impractical” to search every one of the thousands of sightseers who visit
and Meridian sts. and Washington (agree that the buffeting noise tests | and Pennsylvania sts. with angling the maximum endurance of human Virginia ave. Virtually the same tolerance. Cars are lined bumper cendition prevail as at Washington to bumper. Drivers mercilessly Jean! and Illinois sts. But the payoff comes on any rainy tion of their riders standing out of the building daily. afternoon about 5 o'clock. [the rain in doorways.
APPRENTICES AT HIGH Bus, Train Terminals Also Offend WASHINGTON, July 24 (U. P.).! The bus terminal and "Union, Adding the tones of conversation | ~The labor department today re- | station resound with a steady ham- and the turning of a magazine or ported that the number of appren-| mering noise which probably seems | newspaper page shot the general tices learning the building trades indiscernable to those working | noise level up 100 times normal. | advanced to a new record high of | there constantly, Nevertheless they The noise recorded a little lower | 100,943 last month. are 10,000 times noisier than the than the clatter of a typewriter, average Indianapolis home which | Eliminate some of these noises, Politic al tests nearly 50 times greater than as many could be by acoustical it should. engineering and city government Ji Saw The high test at the homes reg- co-operation, and Indianapolis g .en istered when no person in the would be a much more peaceful, ® Your congressman is com- [house moved or spoke. Just the|restful city in which to live, ing home . , . and every- [general sound of the area was| Tomorrow--How neise can be! body is wondering what he's been doing the past seven months. _
recorded. eliminated.) ® Feter Edson, NEA Service and Times Washington correspondent, provides the
Them as Has Gets—
This Time a Busted Hip .CLIFTON HEIGHTS, Ta, July
Boy, 10, on ‘Bicycle Injured in Accident
Garvin Sexton Jr, 10-year-old
| lion. Its latest report due in a few days will show how it spent about $80 million. Deals now in the making will absorb the $20 million balance.
Want to Spend $200 Million
This year, the board asked for
$260 million. The budget bureau cut it to $200 million. The house! tentatively has knocked off another $50 million, . Once again, the board promises to ask for more. This time, Secre-
|tary Royall says, it hopes to make
good. “We hope we will be able to spend more and more and can come back and ask congress to sup- | plement it so we can get at least a fifth of our purchase requirements by July 1, 1048,” he told the house appropriations committee. “We feel | we can buy $200 million worth with- | out hurting civilian economy. Even | if ‘we buy that, we will have only! one-sixth of our stockpiles in two years—we expected to have 40 per) cent—and we feel world conditions make it imperative we have stockpile of -some size.”
Good Reason for Lagging The secretary pointed out $200 million a year will extend our six-| year program fo 10 years. “We would hate to fall any
Almost as guilty are Washington; At this time police and newsboys' further behind than we are,” he tinued rains’ Mr, Abbott said.. Only
said, Stockpilers say there are good
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reasons why we are lagging. First, er - mg The | NEW COMET FOUND
prices have been too high.
{on their horns to attract the atten-| poard’s policy, under those circum- |
stances, is to go on a buyers’ strike, to buy those items which are priced “right.” Even so, Mr. Royall says
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A Desi Arnaz
Yesterday might hav
24 (U. P.).—John Trombetti, 14, recovering from a fractured left hip, limped along the sidewalk yesterday. He was struck by a struck by a truck at 21st st. and bicygle. ; Sherman dr. His right hip was fractured. Driver of the truck was James A. | rtm teeter Claypool, 801 W. New York STASSEN 18 REELECTED boy was taken to Methodist hospital 2 YEMEN ASKS SEAT IN UN LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., July
answer in a series of articles which begins in The Times today, Mr. Edson _ sifts understandable interpretations out of a mass of confusion,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Garvin Sexton,
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2164 N. Drexel ave, was seriously Lloyd Barnett. | injured today when his bicycle was! It would have been another dull
of 11, according to her mother, Mrs.
|period of rest and quiet yesterday for the Manual high school freshman,
st. The| Then The Times told Mr. Arnaz his autographed photo. He wrote
about his stricken admirer, Between shows yesterday, he slipped and
visited |easy.’” And he sald to Mary ul
{tween 6 and 8 a, m. today.
Sick Girl ‘a Lot Better,’ After Idol's Visit
Orchestra Leader Stamps Out Special Record For Fan, 14, Who Collapsed at Stage Door
By HENRY BUTLER e¢ been just another day of iliness for 14-year-| old Mary Emily Barnett, 332 E. Raymond st. Tuesday night, she collapsed after waiting over an hour with her | chums outside the Circle theater stage door to get Desi Arnaz’ autograph. She had sat through two shows. Excitement proved too much for pangs operated a machine that her, as it has several times since she had rheumatic fever at the age stamped out a new copy of “Cuban
fam....7 lpm |AUanta, attracted the attention of .rense--cases ever heard in .this
two salesmen on an early morning | ort " Mr. Farb argued. “The las round. They dug into the truck! give’ Mrs. ayer any "a body and mage the gruesome dis-| serson the right to kill when her coyery. {own life or that of a loved one’is
A break in the cool weather was expected today with an official forecast of fair and somewhat warmer through tomorrow, Unseasonably cool temperatures which have prevailed the last few days will give way to a rise in the
Detectives announced yesterday, in danger.” they had found bloodstained trous-| Sai — ers in Robinson's house and wit- E " ' A . Expert Says 6-Year-mercury today. Temperatures are nesses sald they had “positively” P y 6-Year Old
expected. to cim iio the high 1s Mentified him us the man, thes Didn't Kill Two Babies ou - | vy OF JOY 0 snd continue through to victim the day she was slain, MAR OD yu os A rise of 10-degrees was recorded) ~~ Robinson- had. beén held onl lo 0 Gavisor to the Michigan at the 10cal weather bureau be- charges of “suspicion of assault. ft "0 "lee oor nietely elim | He has replied to questioning with|® police, today completely fo “yes,” or “no” or “I don't know.” inated 6-year-old Roger Gue Jr, : as a suspect in the city hospital baby slayings June 6, The Gue boy earlier had “con=
Good for Farmers The expected rise in temperature s will be welcomed by farmers who Italian Man Succeeds have been repeatdly dogged by rain . ss essed” and cool weather so far this year, In Third Suicide Try ng ae tolled the ete A bright sun “is just what the COMO, Italy, July 24 (U. P.).~|ing after a test in which sand bags corn erop needs” Horace AbLOlt, Felice Peloia, who was sick, jobless were used to represent babies. . He county agriculture agent declares. |and worried about his four hungry said the test showed that Roger “A normal corn production is out| children, finally caught up With could not have removed the inof ‘he question,” Mr, Abbott sald| death today. fants from their cribs in the man« today. “The cool weather has cut! Three weeks ago he threw him- ner he described. the chances for the corn to mature | self under a train. The wheels | “It is inconceivable,” he said and give a fair yield. | missed him, Last week he jumped “that the injuries of the babies “An early killing frost, which out of a window. He only broke were caused by dropping them on usually comes in late September or his leg. Today he set fire to his the floor. The - records indicate early October, would knock out 50 hed, and was burned to death. either direct violence in the form per cent of the crop,” he sald. wme————— lof clubbing was applied to the Other crops hurt hy the cool Mee Murray Considers skulls, or the babies were dashed weather include tomatoes, which also : . violently and repeatedly against were delayed in planting by con-| Comeback in Films | the floor or against some solid ob-
-| ject.” crop benefiting from the cool wave HOLLYWOOD, July 24 (U. P.). |! is late oats |Mae Murray, blonde vamp of the
’ jet Reta, Td ony she was State OK’s New Cashier CAMBRIDGE, Mass, July 24 (U.| Miss Murray, now about 60, said For Bank at Napoleon |p.) —Discovery of a new comet— she was in Hollywood to disp/se of| The state department of financial | visible with the aid of a “moderate” two stories she owns, but would not institutions today approved . the telescope — was reported to the be averse to making a movie. Shel election of Willlam J. Schroder; 38 Harvard university observatory to- will resume her career in BEUuropé | an Osgood, Ind., attorney, as cashier | day. "in December, she said. {of the Napoleon state bank. - - Mr. Schroder, elected last at a special meeting of the bank's directors, succeeded Robert J. McClanahan, who was ousted June 25 following federal embezzlement charges. ad Since then H. J. McDavitt, state senior bank examiner, has been acting cashier, McClanahan was charged with embezzling slightly more than $48, 000, all of which has been repaid. Francis J. Moore, supervisor of the state department, sald bank was “entirely solvent.”
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wanted to call them all up and tell them.” Later yesterday, Mr. Arnaz sent out to try and get a copy of his “Cuban Pete” recording to autograph and send to Mary Emily, Not lone could be found in local shops. 80 the rhumba’ maestro himself {went out to the RCA-Victor plant {about 3 p. m., and with his own
| Pete” from the master record. It's {said today. “But after Mr. Arnaz on its way to Mary Emily. {had sat with her a few minutes, she! “She'll sure be glad to get it,” Mrs. {quieted down.” Barnett said today. “She was Desi brought Mary Emily a bou- thrilled to hear about it.” quet of roses, a box of candy and| Mary Emily has a special invitation from the Circle theater man~ jon the picture, “Do as Cuban Pete agement to attend the Jerry Co\says: ‘Take it easy, just take it|lonna show, which opened today. If / ,| her health permits in the next few ys, she'll be provided with