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Barefoot Man Clubs Husband,
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Flees After Attack On Northeast Side
Police today are searching for a six-foot barefoot man who forced his way into a home on the’ north east side early yesterday. The intruder slugged a 60-year-old man, tnen attacked his victim's 44-year-old wife. 3 Mr, and Mrs. James Myers, 2805 E. 30th st, told police they heard & noise around 3 a Mr. Myers went - the door to Investigate and was accosted by the barefooted man. ' The man slugged Mr. Myers with | a club. When Mrs, Myers entered the room the intruder struck her with the club. i Mr. Myers said he was stunned by the blows, but as the man tried to attack his wile, ha rose to defend her, He said the man clubbed him several more times and fled. | Treated at Hospital Both vietims were treated at City hospital far severe head wounds. Two men are being’ heid ‘on vagrancy charges after -lhey were | captured by police early ioday in| a stolen car. They admiited en-
tering the Chicken Food. Grocery...
921 N. New Jersey st, taking $11 and .
varlier, and cigarets, - police
said. i Officers Chester Timmerman, Lawrence . Gigerich and Orville]
Gleich captured the’ pair at New! York and Meridian sts., shortly aft-| er a police broadcast describéd the, stolen car traveling at a high rate] of speed on New York st. |
’ 4 Heoldups Occur Held in the Marion county jail are Thomas Francis, 18, of 1417 Peter st, and Henry Leroy Spoon, 19, of 925 N. Alabama st. Detec-| tives said they would question the! pair concerning other burglaries. Four holdups occurred. in the city | over the week-end. . Mark A, Dunfee, Collville, O., ported he was stopped at McCray | and Jackson sts. by a man who! flashed a badge and said he was a! detective. The “detective” ordered Mr. Dunfee to the lobby of the Fair bldg., 40 W. Jackson st., Where/ he asked for identification. He returned Mr. Dunfee's bill-! fold minus $28 and ordered - him | to get up the stairs. | Attacked by Pair : Claud Downs, 117 River ave. told police he was walking near Ver-| mont st. and the canal when a man asked him for a match. He said | another man and a woman atiackell/ him and pushed him near the canal. They took his. billfold ‘ containing | $38 and his watch. | Willie Lismon, 29, of 2523 Boulevard pl, a-cab- driver, reported he | picked up three men at Victory field | last night. They asked him to drive to Keystone ave. and Minnesota st. When they were in the 100 block on W. Merrill st, he said ope man pushed what he thought was a gun into his back and took $18 from his wallet. : Andrew Show, 35, Martinsville, also a cab driver, said two men leaped in scab at Cruse and Washington sts. and pulled a small} caliber gin. They forced him to drive to White River pkwy. where they took $18 and fled. : Purse, $236 Stolen Martha Jones, 45, 215 N. Oxford st., said hér purse containing $256, was stolen while she was giving a! birthday party at her home yesterday.
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STORM DAMAGE The Tattered s garage of Frank Faust near Fruitdale, on State Road 135, resulting from yesterday's near cyclonic storm. Mr. Faust received fractured ribs and five others received minor injuries when the building collapsed at the § height of the storm.
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DEMOLISHED — The high" wind which ruck in Brown county leveled the above | house scattering household goods. A battered piano, radio, table and bedstead can
be seen in Ye foreground.
Storm Damage Heavy; Lightning Kills Hoosier
(Continued From Page One) distance telephone circuits to Morgantown and Nashville
were out of service this morning. |
At Bedford, where two and a half {inches of rain poured down in two { hours, damage to trees and rural | electric power lines was reported heavy. Several roads were blocked by fallen trees and limbs. The weather bureau “said the storm accompanied a cold front which moved across the state in a diagondl line from northeast to southwest. In Indianapolis the rain was accompanied by a sharp drop in temperature from 84 to 71 degrees. The high here yesterday was 89 ‘and the lowest temperature, reached at about 6 a. m., was 66. Indianapolis Power & Light Co. reported a number of transformers {burned out or danmiaged. A two- | hour power failure at the Veterans
Stanley Canfield, 44, manager - —
the White Gables restaurant, Shelby st., said burglars entered the restaurant last night and, escaped with five pounds of bacon, five pounds of tenderloin and two, pounds of ham. Richard Fletcher, owner grocery at 3190 8. Keystone A fh rted $18 taken from his establishnent last night. | Cora Tloyd, 47, of 448'; W. Wash- | " Ingtoh st.
= State Acts to Slow * Busses, Trucks
A statewide crackdown on truck and bus drivers who exceed legal | speed limits on Indiana highways was announced today by Col. Robert
reported the theft of Rossow, state police superintendent.| Mr. Hill,
[hospital on
None was injured.
Cold. Spring = road,
stopped generators, refrigerators
still ‘and other facilities, but caused no '& Coal Co. was injured critically | | early today when caught in an iceTroyble calls jammed telephone crushing machine at the plant. |
inconvenience to patients,
Garfield and Humbolt|
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exchanges.
exchanges were out in sections for N. Alabama st., a time when lightning struck trans-| vincent's hospital.
mission cables, An eight-block area | south of Morris st. was in darkness for 40 minutes when lightning! burned out a transformer.
at the Perfection Windshield Co., i 142 W, 10th st., caused slight dam- | age. Fire by lightning caused un-|
estimated damage to a back room Stairs to a gymnasium to look for a them to give up the five-day- week
of the home of Arch Farrabee, 910 relative | descending.
. East st.
Ne serious storm fire in the
state was the destruction of the st. Grant Thrasher home seven miles odist hospital after his automobile Dominican Republic Loss was slipped from ‘a jack last estimated at $10,000. None of the crushing his chest
south of Bloomington.
Thrasher family was at home when | the bolts struck.
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Tickets on Sale r 5. Guild Plays
Advance sale for a Theater guild season of five plays at the English theater began today at the Meridian book shop and ticket agency, according to Lawrence Hill, roprietor.
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who 18 the Theater!
$2350 and two bottles of wine from! Orders for rigid enforcement of guild's subscription manager - for
a store at 550 W. Washington st. Take Two Purses
[the law, which permits busses a Indianapolis. said four attractions tendant to escape three mont ‘maximum speed of 50 miles an hour had been named as likely to reach 280 has been captured by the FBI Burglars efitered a home at 1702 and trucks 45 miles an hour, haye Indianapolis in the coming season. at Knoxville, Tenn.
N. Talbot st. yesterday and took! been sent to all 10 state police posts, The fifth has not been. selected.
two purses containing $14 belonging |
to Ruth Warner, 45, and Betty | Barnes, 23. Mrs. Fred Garrett, 43, of 610 E.| 21st st., said she was retiring last!
the bedroom. She opened the door | in time .to see something going out a window. | «Jt turned out to be a purse be-
Mayor Denny's law office secretary, | who lives in the same apartment.! It contained $50. Police said the burglar stood on a rock outside the window and pulled the bed to the window where he grabbed the purse. | Lock Is Picked Malsolm Honeywell, 303 E. 19th st. said someone picked the lock | to a door of an outside shed at his! service station, 1030 Fletcher ave.,!
last night. They took $35 worth of missioners take immediate action aL
, he said. re James Stack, 27, of 606 Shelby! st., an attendant, said he took $45) from the cash registey to the sta- | tion to his home for safekeeping. He | said burglars entered his home and took the $43. *H. C. Fledderjohn, 9, of 3135, Sutherland ave., told police he heard a man cut the screen at his back door last . night. The man demanded “give me your watch.” Mr. Fudderjohn said he replied Shrowng | His shoe at the man, whe
Col. Rossow said. He cited figures showing that 18 {per cent of fatal accidents in the state involve busses and trucks “My department has received
heavier vehicles,” he sald, “We
job is tg ‘reduce the accident toll,
over last Ash, year.”
Demand Paving 0f S. Rural. St.
A score of South Side residents |today demanded that county com- |
on the paving of 8. Rural st. A similar plea last year was un-| successful, The petitioners - said conditions 'on the gravel street between Troy and Carson aves. were hazardous and unsanitary. The commissioners made no com- | "ments.
Mishawaka Inventor
ke To Produce Jet Engines
MISHAWAKA, Ind, July 28 (U.
to manufacture his jet steam
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P.).<W. C. Miner said today he,
, vest test A sh ‘Vincent s—Emerson, Luctile Tripp!
The four plays so far named are: “Fatal Weakness,” with Ina Claice “Lady Windermere's Fan.” Cornelia Otis, Skinner; Part of the Forest"
starring “Another the Lillian
night when she heard a noise in' "many complaints of speeding by Hellman play, and Arthur Miller's
“All My Bons,” the 1947 Critics’
“red” | have no desire to work a hardship Circle prize play. on any highway user but our first
Prices for the season of five plays ‘will be $16.70, $14 and $11.36, Mr.
longing to Mrs. Margaret Green, | which is up 12 per cent this year Hill said. Each play will be seen
here in four performances. Dates | will be announced later,
BIRTHS I Twins | At St. Francis — William Pear] Roberts, | boys, Luther, Thelma Shakelford, girls. | Girls’ Francis — Owen | Richard, Merle Endsley; Herschel Prix] cilia Bunch; Berdean Elsa Oldroyd:! | James, Plorence Medcall; Gall, Dorothy O'Hara; Bpencer, Betty Thomas At City Charles, Georgia Monger: Gerald. Joan Tanner; AmlL Elnora Settles, Luther, Thelma erdale; Albert, Goldie Wyatt, At Coleman Walter, Robert, Bonnie Mosier
Phyllis Rosch;
Juanita Slavey Bustier, Gertie Pryor: Alva, Betty Johnson; Lawrence! _ Japette Dailey: Harold. Wynema Coates. ! Carl, Mary Bitue: Allen, Nora Lagle; | Otto, Katherine Hurrle, Russell, Jearuldene Joerendt. IAL Msthadist_ Robert, Rosemary Bonham: An P Marion,
Rdw ard, Brummett: Eugene, @hir1 Wiam, "Eur Maskell; ldine Ra gr Magdaren illlams; Herbert, Treva DeHaven;
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nde re ls Betiy Dear. ; Martin, Milda Roberts; Harry, Shover.
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Ice: Crusher Hurts oviidh Newipapen
week-end mishap was Omer Fovtner ig t of a crisis: surpassing 46. of 1001 N. Delaware st. Police jo; hint tor P 'found him lying at the foot of stairs
A utility pole was snapped at 160; n front of 24 Illinois st. yeste W. Arizona st. A shorted fuse box day afternoon, 5. ep.
Ist. was treated and released at City B8egafrier charged foday that a == hospital after she was struck by
| federal warrant charging unlawful De Gaulle Attacks
In Indianapolis — Vital Statistics
Boys | DEATHS [At SL. Francia Darrell, Mary Hil: James, Evelyn Johnson: Ral Baratny | Mary Johnston, 63, at 6080 BE. Oth, earelohnson; Harry, Pauline Bilis. Anthony | Ragar B acknay Lane, 08, at City, eancer
ery, AlN. Vincent’ bal). Trine Seles Gray: |
Dutch Paratroops Attack Village
Reported in Action
Against Indonesians
| BATAVIA, July 28 (U P.), —Dutch paratroopers and fresh amphioious {forces have been hurled against the ‘Indonesian Republican army, it was disclosed today. | An Indonesian communique said Dutch paratroopers jumped into the village of Lamadjang, uear Pengalengan in West Java. It was the first time paratroopers were reported in action since In-!donesian-Dutch fighting’ broke out eight days ago. The Indonesi»n announcement ‘suid the population of Lamadjang immediately attacked the paratroopers, It said Dutch aircraft '“destroyed™” the city before tie paratroopers jumped; A Dutch communique said Dutch troops landing from the sea today occupied Boekit Lampoe, on the west coast of Sumatra, to prevent Indonesian batteries from shelling Dutch shipping | As the Dutch-Indonesian fighting {entered its second week, Dutch | forces spread over Southern {Sumatra, and raced to finish oceupy+ | {ing the coastal areas of northern | | Java ! {
‘British Board Illegal
Pewial Immigrant Ships JERUSALEM July 28 (U, [British sailors boarded two illegal Jewish immigrant ships today. They immediately began to transfer the hysterical passengers to boats bound for Cyprus. [The 300-ton Return to Zion car|ried 374 passengers from North America, the first non-European {Jews to attempt a mass break | through the British blockade of | Palestine. An additional 374 Jews ' were aboard the other vessel. British sailors boarded the ship | without much trouble. But passengers on the Return to Zion became hysterical when their vessel | reached Haifa and they were asked [ to disarm, The most hysterical group ever to larrive in Palestine, they feared they |were being returned to North Africa. To ease these fears, the British [broadcast an announcement, that
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{camps in Cyprus, The British emphasized that the {decision to send the refugees to |Oyprus did not mean they would not return other would-be immi- — grants to the port from which they
‘Blast Government
Worker Badl | LONDON, July 28 (U. P.),~Brit- | ish newspapers loosed a concerted
blast of criticism at the Labor gov|ernment’s handling of the nation’s economic crisis today. The independent Daily Mirror demanded editorially that “Attlee must, go.” . Prime Minister Clement A, Attlee |¢aced a widespread demand for imAlso injured critically in another , .4iate and concrete action against
An employee of the Irvington Tee
The victim, Walter Hall, 25, of 2268 was taken to St.
Coal was the hub of the threatened crisis. Mr. Attlee, under fire | personally in the press, was exChest Crushed {pected to ask the miners to work They were told he had gone up- longer hours. Possibly he will urge
and had fallen while they won this spring under nxtionHe is in City hospital. | alized management of the mines.
Joseph Springer, 46, of 822 W. 43d ' was in fair condition at Meth- Charges Plot Against :
ght, | WASHINGTON. July 28 (U. P.). Mrs. Adah Ford, 57, of 1022 Collier —Dominican Ambassador Julio Ora group of Confiiiunists and disfoul ball Saturday night at Victory gruntled Dominican politicians wre field, assemblirig an army in Cuba with en the intention of invading the Do-
Racy
they would be placed in internment -
minican Republic and overthrowJail Trus Lau ht: ing the government. He said the Dominican embassy
here hdd received informatiory that
a “lafge transport left Cuba last em e spect week equipped with American landing craft. flame throwers and former trusty at the county * “large number” of weapons which — who walked past a new at- they hope to smuggle into the Dohs | minican Repub! The Communists, he sald, claim a force of about 3000 which allegedly is being trained near Ha-
He is Jerry Meyer Jackson, 47, vana.
who was arrested yesterday on a
flight to avoid prosecution. Jackson faces a grand larceny ‘French Communists charge here in conhection with the, RENNES, France, July 28 (U. P.). theft of $20,000 in jewelry from the —French Communists stood charged home of Mr. and Mrs. George M. by Gen. Charles De Gaulle today Dixon, 4302 Swanson dr., where he with aiming to sell out Prance to formerly was employed as a house- Russia. man. Gen. De Gaulle made his most The defendant was painting in bitter attack on the Communists the women's section at the county yesterday in a speech to a mass jail when he disappeared. ‘meeting here,
Marjorie Guro® James, Mary Hershberger
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Catherine Graham; Robert, Wanda Col-
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cirrhosis of liver, . | Baro P. Dunlap. 51, at Methodist, cere. bral hemorrhage Amanda D. Pilar, 50. at 1821 Nowiand, cerebral hemorrhage. Gamer, 78, at 199 N. Keystone,
AL Methodist—Clarence. Lenna Seely: Albert, Betty Rust: Albert, Mary Slater; | Olarence. Ola Pullen; Roy, is Mutt: William, Annette McDona je! ord, Jessie Biiles: Robert, Maxine Biv: lg Bernard, Marie Arshop; Robert. Mar
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Afnes M . Rungoign. 8, at 937 Central,
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