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58th YEAR—NUMBER 120

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‘Cat Man’ Plagued Police of Four States

Made Start On Tricycle, Record Hints

fee Pick Suspect Arrested 27 Times

By DONNA MIKELS According to police records, the man now accused of being Indianapolis’ ice pick burglar must have started his career

verbally with Mr. Marion county council.

Mr. Fife, who represenfed lottery

By Special

The case acquired significance

Fife,

Chief Sanders emphasized that

as a tricycle bandit. The records show William Joe Joyner spent two of his first nine years in the boys’ school at Plain-

freld and -taking- the country —siry-

at the Indiana state farm near Pendleton. There are no exact

dates on these two sentences, but they are shown on the official record as occurring “prior to 1923.” a

The accused man, who attrib-

Joyner

‘ports on the ice pick- burglar show

utes his cat-like agility to a diet of vegetable salads and greens, was born in 1914, That would make him nearly 10 before his extensive police record starts getting specific. 4-State Record That record spreads over four states, includes 27 arrests and 15 convictions ranging from vagrancy to first degree burglary. In his ‘most recent brush with the law, hé was discharged by Criminal Court Judge Saul Raab May 23 on a charged of grand larceny. By a striking coincidence, the police re-

that elusive party was inactive between April 3 and May 23, a period which Mr. Joyner sweated out in the county jail for want of $1500 bail.

Nearest he ever came to runhing! out of luck was in 1043, when a Decatur county . circuit court slapped = 10-year sentence on him for first-degree “Burglary “Bufgiry, He wisi saved, however, by an a general's opinion and the action of | the parole board, and was given the prison equivalent of an “honorable” discharge early last year. Affidavit Faulty

press faulty search warrant.

dence and. Special Judge Fife agreed. Thus, legalities left police open-

2 Youths Held For 7 Burglaries

seven burglaries and a string of automobile thefts today through the

ticket manufacturers, recently had dismissed five alleged gamblers while serving as special judge in municipal court 4. Few. persons were. present. when the casewwas heard June 27,

They carried a search warrant issued by Municipal Judge Alex Clark on the basis of an affidavit signed by Sgt. Bader that persons at the address were “registering bets on horse races.” Sgt. Bader said he was informed of this situation “by persons unknown.” Charged with keeping-a room for pool -selling were Amil Caroselli,

At a trial June 27, defense at-| the evidence, charging a

Special Judge Fife granted the

Then, defense attorneys moved to

Spotlight Focussed On Pool Case Dismissal

Judge Fife

Action Acquires Significance After

Chief Sanders and Attorney Tilt at Hearing By KENNETH HUFFORD Attention . was focused today on a gambling case that received little notice when heard a month ago before Special Judge Eugene M. Fife Jr.

following last night's fiery session

in city council chambers when Police Chief Howard Sanders tangled Indianapolis attorney and member of the

Testimony at the trial was that Police Sgt. Ralph Bader and Patroffnen Alexander Sabo and Thomas Flanary, all plainclothesmen in a special anti-vice squad answer-

| able only to Chief Sanders, last

June 12 raided the Nu-Day Advertising Co. 1242 College ave... ADL. 10-D.

Charged With Keeping Pool Selling Place

1723 N. . Pennsylvania . st, and Maurice Riddle, 1311 N, Denny st. A battery of defense attorneys that included David Lewis, Jacob S. Miller and John Tinder filed a motion for a change of venue that was granted by Judge Clark. Judge Clark selected John Barney, Leo Brown and Mr. Fife as possible special judges. Deputy Prosecutor John A. Carson omit-

709. W. 30th st.; Wayne Cummings, {ted Mr. Brown and Mr. “Miller 3215 Kenwood ave,; John R. Lane, omitted Mr. Barney, leaving Mr. 970 W. 30th st.; John D.. Riddle, |Fife.

Five Defendants Are Set Free

mouthed, while the five defendants

torneys first filed a motion to sup-, strode from the almost empty court= i room.

Defense attorneys remained be{hind an additional moment to ob-

motion on the basis that Sgt. Bader | tain Special Judge Fife’s permission should have specified in his affi- on one-incidental matter. davit the “persons unknown.

Now that the case was dismissed, would he return four telephones,

dismiss the case for lack of evi-{some.papers, books and records that

police had the raid. He would, and did.

“illegally”. taken during

One Suspect”

Confesses, Crimes Detectives said they had solved

The saving hitch in that case was that when Joyner contended he was wrongly sentenced, the attorney general's office upheld that contention. It was ruled that because of a faulty affidavit, .the sentence should have been for one to 10 years, not a flat 10 years. Under that ruling, Frank Tukey, secretary of the parole board said, he already had served two years more than his minimum sentence and was entitled by his prison record and the law to release. Here is asrundown-of the main incidents of Joyner's crime career: March 6, 1923; charged with petty

. shown on perjury rap.

_ tigation in Rochester, N. ¥. Sixty-

larceny and sentenced to Plainfield, supposedly until he reached his 21st birthday. July 21, 1927, the record states, he was in a jam again in Plainfield, this time for vagrancy. The charge was dismissed. A week later he was sentenced to 45 days in Greencastle on a charge of petit larceny. June 11, 1929, entéring a house in Indianapolis to commit a felony, case dismissed. Sept. 24, 1920, sentenced from Indianapolis to a year on the state farm for burglary and grand larceny. Served eight months, 27 days. July 18, 1930, charged with vagrancy in Indianapolis, dismissed. June 11, 1931, arrested in Rock Island, Tl, under the name of William Johnson, charged as a prowler, sentenced to one to 10 years in Pon~ tiac state reformatory, Served three years, then paroled. March 28, 1936, arrested in Detroit under alias of Joe, investigated for 30 days, then released. Aug, 20, 1936, arrested in Battle Creek, Mich., again as Joe Pasco. Found not guilty on charge of “breaking and entering, but held on a perjury charge. No disposition

March 5, 1937, arrested as William Johnson in Chicago “on general principles.” Case dismissed. March 9, 1937, picked up in Joliet, I, and charged with larceny and violation of his earlier parole from Pontiac. Sentenced one to 10 years, discharged Jan, 24, 1939. March 24, 1939, picked up in Indianapolis on vagrancy and suspicion. Dismissed. May 17, 1939, vagrancy and inves-

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other youths in the burglaries. of them has been arrested for ques-

confession of an 18-year-old youth.

in a stolen car at Meridian and New York sts. last Sunday night, The confession, detectives said, was made by Thomas Francis, 18, of 1417 St. Peter st., who implicated Henry LeRoy Spoon, 18, of 925 N. Alabama st. as his companion in the crimes. The two youths were arrested after a chase of several blocks through downtown streets. Francis admitted, according to detectives,

cery, 921 N. New Jersey -st., ‘a few| minutes before they were caught. Later, Francis confessed, detec-

tives said, that he and his companion burglarized six other business establishments in the last sev-

eral months and that they stole

seven automobiles.

Spoon admitted participation In

the grocery burglary, but denied any connection with the others.

e confession implicated three One

tioning and two others are being sought.

U. S. Blocks Limit On Balkan Group

LAKE SUCCES, N. Y., July 20 (U, P.).~The United States won a preliminary victory in the United Nations Balkan debate today. It turned back French and Australian attempts to bar the big powers from the proposed Balkans peace-keeping commission. France and Australia agreed not to press their proposals after Anferican Delegate Herschel V. Johnson said the United States “feels very strongly” that all 11 nations of the United Nations security council should sit on the commission which the western powers hope to install for at least two years in the troubled Balkans. The skirmish over compdsition of the border patrol pushed the coun-

Russia must choose between vetoing the American proposals or allowing them to be approved over the objections of the three Soviet-sup-ported governments of the Balkans.

—————————————- STEP TO BIG 4 TALK SEEN

WASHINGTON, July 20 (U. P). ~The United States is expected to

Amusements ...8|Mgvies .........8 Obituaries

of the deputies of the council of

foreign ministers to prepare for another Big Four conference on

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Germany, state department spokesman

Fox Invades Club,

\Enlivens Dull Job

Po Horace Williams is 8 good, upstandHe works/of Mr.

hard at his job as a porter in a charged. | night club,

CHICAGO, July 29 (U,

ing citizen of Chicago.

Ordinarily the job is dull . But yesterday he unlocked the door, walked in—and thought he saw a red fox seated on one of the leatherette bar stools. * It really was a fox. snarled.

Mr. William said. Mr.

away.

fox E03 I tie club, in the club,

that they had just completed 8 burglary at the Chicken Food Gro- |,

To Land in France;

PORT DE BOUC, France, July 29 (U. P.).—Some 4500 Jewish refugees arrived today aboard three British freighters. But they told French authorities they would not land on French soil alive.

The refugees were transported here by the British, who intercepted them aboard the President Warfield as they sought to reach Palestine. The Jews flatly informed the French they would not leave the ships anchored in the harbor here. They said they would go ashore nowhere but in Palestine. Rene Colaveri, secretary-general of the prefecture of the department of Bouches du Rhone, visited the three ships today. He said he had given the refugees a message from Premier Paul Ramadier offering them asylum in France and that the offer was rejected.

(Another Palestine Story, Page 3)

to America. Today she anxiouslys awaited a shiny new bicycle she was given in Chicago by former bicycle champion Carl Stockholm, Mr, Stockholm heard how the Nazis took the girl's bicycle and rounded up the finest American one he could find as a present. Miss Koort went to Chicago as

Pool Printers | Back Petition To Kill Bill

Make Drive for 35,000 Signatures

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By LOUIS ARMSTRONG Pool ticket printers today admitted they were circulating a pe titione to kill the proposed antilottery’ ordinance. They indicated the petition would bear 35,000 names by the time it reaches city council Monday night. The number of signers is not as large as the 50,000 figure reported yesterday, but petition bearers said |they had not met with anyone refusing to sign: Herbert S. Smith, secretary of the Allied Printing Trades council, said that lottery print shops were behind the petition. He said the petition was being carried to fra-

the man on the street. Stormy Hearing In a noisy, stormy public hearing at city hall the controversial anti-lottery bill was argued last night. The ordinance would-outlaw printing and possession of lottery and baseball tickets and is aimed at a $9 million racket flourishing in the city. Opponents of the measure -were in the majority and repéatedly expressed their feelings: by booing backers of the oudinance,. including Mayor George L. Denny, William H. Remy, safety board -president; officials of the church federation, Police Chief Howard Sanders, and the Anti-Saloon league. At times the meeting swung away from a discussion of the lottery bill while opponents attacked the Indianapolis Church Federation and argued the effect of gambling on morals. ‘Figment of Imagination’ Lined up against the measure were an attorney representing lottery ticket printers, a union printers’ representative, an employee of a lottery ticket print shop and most of the gallery. Eugene M. Fife Jr, Republican member of the county council, de clared he represented the lottery ticket printers but said he did not know the names of all of them, “This ordinance is just a nt Remy's imaginatioffy’ he “Mr. Remy sold it to Mayor Tyndall and Mayor Denny inherited it.”

Kaiser Tells

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Squabble Over Gambling

He asked Chief Sanders if “he consider

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The fox

“I saw those sharp teeth and I beat it out of there right quick,”

Williams called the AntiCruelty society, which sent its best fox-catcher to take the animal

No one seemed to know how the

Printing Co. a violator of the] ordinance if it shipped all its! tickets outside the city. “Yes!” the chief shouted: Mr. Fife then asked the police chief if the ordinance would assist’ officers when they found lottery tickets in pool rooms.

“Not according to your ruling when you sat as judge pro tem.

inn a recent gambling case,” Chief ee replied. The police officer charged that]

| attorney had not allowed two | patrolmen to testify as to what they rhad witnessed in a recent raid on a gambling house in the 1200 block

lana university left today for Berlin,

on College ave.

told the chief “I am beginning to lose some of my respect for you.”

your biggest problem and this ordinance will not help you,” declared the attorney,

Mr. Fife denied the charges and

“Getting valid search warrants is

Other arguments went like this:

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No Word | Thursday | On 1948 Race, Taft Says

CINCINNATI, July 29 (U, R.).—

Senator Robert A. Taft said today|president* Truman to observe the| he would have no announcement, t0|Greek elections. make regarding his possible presidential candidacy during a Repub-

lican rally Thursday night at Co-| lumbus, O.

Mr, Taft, Senator John W, Bricker |—A “major” earthquake approxiand Governor Thomas J. Herbert mately 7500 miles away in an unat the G. O.; P. rally,|determined direction was recorded called the largest Midwest gather-|today by the California Institute

will spe!

ing of Republicans this year,

Cinderella Dutch Girl Returns Here After Rousing Welcome on Chicago Visit

Rewarded for Care of Indianapolis Veteran's Grave; Gets Bike From Ex-Champ, Other Gifts

The Cinderella Dutch Girl, Corrie Koort, returned to Indianapolis last night after taking Chicago by storm. Everyone in the Windy City talked about the 20-year-old Dutch girl who cared for the grave of Pfc. George E. Moore of Indianapolis so faithfully that his family used his college fund to give her a trip

and a gold watch. Her parents will receive a box of food once a month for a year. Mr, Moore said the morning after Corrie had received the bicycle she exclaimed happily, “I rode that bicycle in my sleep all night.” A surprise visitor on the American

1. U. President On Berlin Mission

Wells to Talk With Clay on Troop Study

Times State Service

BLOOMINGTON, Ind; July 29. President Herman B Wells of Indi-

where he will cohsult with Gen. Lucius D. Clay, U, 8. military governor, on education in the Amer-dcan-occupied zone of Germany.

Dr. Wells is going at the request of the war department. He expects to be in Germany about two weeks, conferring with Gen. Clay and officers in charge of schools set up by American military authorities for the education of German youth.

He will visit district educational {headquarters at Wiesbaden, Munich and Stuttgart in the American zone. | The trip is the second made by President Wells to Europe since the war, Early last year he went to Greece as a member of the American misison appointed by

INDIANA GIFT TO HOLLYWOOD — Gale Robbins, Hoosier-born film actress "Ever the Beginning," United States picture to be

Miss Robbins, whe hails from Mitchell, Ind., has been an advertising model arid a vocalist with leading name k bands.

Flying Discs Coy, Cupid Makes Hay

HIGHMOUNT, N.%. July 20 (u.

{P.).—There ain't no such thing as a

flying saucer. That was the conclusion today of guests at the Grand hotel in this Catskill mountain fown as ended 528 hours. of around-the-clock vigil for the purported discs. About three weeks ago, the hotel manager offered $500 to the first

a flying saucer, Since then a number of summer romances have flourished in the starlight, several amateur astronomers have begn developed, and eyelotion sales have jumped. That's all—no flying saucers,

Showers, Cooler Coming Along

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

Major Quake Recorded

PASADENA, Cal., July 290 (U. P.,

of Technology.

“It's all very crazy,’ I love it.” Miss Koort remembers a few years ago in Helland when some of her girl friends were allowed to go to "Amsterdam for a vacation. “Poor Corrie,” she said they would say. “She has to stay home.” “This trip was just like a dream come true, I know they wouldn't feel sorry for me now.” In a few weeks Miss Koort will get another trip. Mr. and Mrs, James Elkins of Bell Buckle, Tenn, read Miss Koort's story in Life magazine last month. Mr. Elkins recognized her as the girl he visited while in Holland in the army, The couple requested that Miss Koort spend a week with them before she returns to her home, Dec.

* she said, “but

moving .into the high 80's were pre- | dicted today. A break in the warm weather was expected late tonight or early tomorrow, however, Thundershowers were forecast. A high of 82 degrees was recorded here yesterday with a drop to 64 at 6 a. m. today.

days, It will be cooler Friday and Saturday, the weather bureau said. Scattered thundershowers will| also occur. Thursday or Thursday night,

‘Elizabeth Is Expected

‘To Wed Philip Nov. 18

LONDON, July 20 (U, Princess Elizabeth and Lt, Mountbatten will be married

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said today by excellent sources,

Read: An editorial, “Stupendous?

Appeal Made Navy Change Mind, He Says

Brought Order for 100

Carriers, Probers Told

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three guests simultaneously to see

Temperatures will average 1 to 3| degrees above normal the next two| {parked car dn front of 1

Philip in Westminster Abbey Nov, 18, it. was] palace |

There will be no official announcement of date until after the meeting of the privy council on Friday. But Nov, 18 was sald to have been suggested by King George himself,

Aged Watchman Beaten Savagely

Says Gang ‘Jumped’ Him on Illinois St.

Police today investigated the beating of a -Tl-year-old night watchman found wandering last

Colossal?” wrasse sumer 18 “Oh, Josephine,” by Othman ..., 11 WASHINGTON, July 29 (U. P.).—West coast indus-

§ [trialist Henry J, Kaiser told ~~ ‘tsenate investigators today

that an appeal to the late

President Roosevelt resulted in an about-face by the navy in its opposition to Mr. Kaiser's plans for building jeep aircraft carriers. A few moments before the hulk« ing Paul Bunyan of West coast industry, red-faced and angry, had accused his questioners of denying him the right to protect himself against “a smear He appeared before a senate war investigating subcommittee . to tell his side of the story of an $18 million air mammoth which still is earthbound after five years of building. Given Flat ‘No’ But in stormy wrangling with the committee—which refused to listen to. a prepared statement until he had answered questions—Mr, Kaiser ranged from flying boats to aluminum plants to anti-submarine aire craft carriers and back to flying boats. The senators are investigating

and his former associate, millionaire plane-maker Howard Hughes, for experimental aircraft. Mr. Kaiser told the senators that top-ranking naval officials gave him

| a flat “no” on his ideas for the | baby carriers until Mr. Roosevelt | changed their minds.

Statement Refused Mr, Kaiser challenged the subcommittee to_ unmask powerful “forces” in and oyt of the govern-

war contracts granted to Mr, Kaiser -

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{said his flying boat plans fell afoul

ment which, he said, gave “a clever, mysterious kiss-off” to his wartime plan to whip the U-boat menace with an armada of wooden flying boats. He declared that similar forces tried—but failed—to kill his idea of jeep carriers to sink enemy submarines, In direct testimony, Mr. Kaiser

of “g beautiful frame-up.” He didn’t know “who in Washington” re ticipated in the deal But, he testified, “they succeeded.” Bitter Over Loening Mr. Kaiser was especially bitter

night near 16th and Mill sts. The aged man, Maurice Delatour of ‘245 E, 10th st., sald he had been released early from his post at] the Em-Roe Sporting Goods Co. | and had walked to 8. Illinois st. There, he said, several men beat him savagely. He .was taken tof City hospital where his condition | was reported as “fair.” When police found him, Mr Delatour’s eyes wére swollen nearly shut and his face was badly lacer-| ated. Minors Held

Three minors’ and an older man | were held in connection with two

him running away from a car and carrying an armload of clothing. The car was parked at Illinois and New York sts. and had been entered by forcing a wing window, The three minors were picked up and turned over to the juvenile aid | division after a complaint that they {had been #&een breaking into a

[last night. Police Given Address Two women, 22 and 24 years old, reported they were forced into a car |1ast. night as they walked along | Ohio st. just east of Illinois st. | They gave police the address of {one of the trio who was known to | them. The men were held on {vagrancy charges but police requested $2000 bonds for them to { permit further questioning,

Britons Seek Ban On Red Riding Hood

LONDON, July 20 (U. P.).—The Nursery Schools association of Brit-, ain today condemned the tale of little Red Riding Hood as cruel,

Off the Record

Donna Mikels’ column on

20. After getting permission from what's doing in the world of _ her mother in Holland, Miss Kodrt| POPUIAE Tecorded TED 8Pwill be 90 Hey way south in another The weekly “Off the Record” Wy now, she’s more interested page ella You all stot the FOtiving the Dew eh Iatebl Yelauae, jas banay pres, “I just want to ride and Turn " she said, i Pat 4

complexes among children. Miss Joyce Cornish-Bowden, education secretary of the association, demanded that the story be kept from British youngsters because of its harmful influence. A few weeks ago the Middlesex county council banned Punch and

teach children to become wife-

dougie crossed you?” Mr, Ferguson inqui

attempts to loot parked cars, Three ace. men were held on vagrancy ‘charges| The following day, Mr. Kaiser: ree

two young | dential secretary Marvin H. McIn«

rancy after police said they caught |

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deceptive and likely to create fear |

Judy shows on grounds that they|

about Grover Loening, war produec“tion board former aircraft speciallist, who told the senators yesterday that Mr, Kaiser's plans were | “visionary and . somewhat imprac- | tical.” “Do you claim that Mr. Loening

uired.

Voted 16 to § | “Yeah,” said Mr, Kaiser, “I think he did.” Mr, Kaiser recalled that in 1942 a navy board had voted 16 to 0 against his jeep carrier plan to check the German submarine men-

vealed, he called on the then presi«

| tyre. Kaiser said Mr. McIntyre could not arrange an interview with Mr. Roosevelt, but offered to place a brief not from Mr. Kaiser “on the chief's desk.” Thereafter things began to hap pen, he said. “The whole navy moved into the White House and said it (the plan).is crazy,” he said. But Mr. Kaiser got an order for 1100 of the light carriers anyway

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