Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 August 1947 — Page 1

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56th YEAR—NUMBER 125

Grown Children

Kept in

Cages

For Many Years

Police Accuse Mother, Who Plays at Revivals,

Of Penning 3 ‘So I'll

Know Where They Are’

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MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 4 (U. P.).—~Two middle-aged brothers and a sister ate ravenously today after being freed from shackles and cages

in which their 72-year-old mother knowewhere they are.” Police planned to réfume ques

held them for many years “so I'll

tioning of the mother, Mrs. Bertha

Anderson. She was known as a religion woman who played the organ

for visiting revivalists. She gave tenants two weeks free rent each Christmas. Mrs. Anderson was freed after extensive questioning last night. She was told to return today when authorities planned to decide whether to prefer charges against her, "Brother Tied to Cot “They're my kids, aren't they?” she shot at questioning ‘officers. “I've got a right to do what I want with them.” : Police who entered her home on a neighbor's tip found Martin Anderson, 42, caged ina chicken wire inclosure upstairs. Nearby, tied to a dirty, bare ~ot, was his brother, Clarence, 38. The sister, Violet, 35, was locked in an attic room with a sack over her head: Al were thin and dirty. Violet was eating from a tin can, using the cover for a spoon. They mumbled incoherently and police said they were almost too weak to walk. : Probate court records showed that, all three had been adjudged incompetent mentally. Guardianship over them has shifted frequently during the past 20 years between Mrs. Anderson and another son, Walter. The son also was to be questioned again today. Police were seeking four other children, including a son, Earl, whom Mrs. Anderson said was “subject to spells” and also was under her care. She said she permitted him freedom of the house and let him out “once in a while.” Authorities claimed that Clarence had been locked up 18 years, Martin for 15 years, and Violet for two

years, : Quarters Filthy Their quarters were in fAithy con-

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section of General hospital said the brothers and sister were in “poor condition” due to malnutrition. “They eat everything we put before them,” one attendant said. “They can’t seem to get enough.” Court records showed that Mrs. Anderson’s husband, Hans, died in 1916, leaving an estate of almost $50,000. His will gave Mrs. Anderson a third and divided the remainder among the eight children.

‘Perfect Landlady’ Clarence was adjudged incom-

. petent in 1925, Martin in 1928, and

violet in October of 1943. Mrs. Anderson said she had employed “22 Minneapolis lawyers” to handle the involved manipulations of the estate in the past 20 years. Mr. and Mrs. H. Bay Trelawney, who live on the first floor of Mrs. Anderson's home, said she was a “perfect landlady.” They never knew of the alleged Imprisonments, they said, although they had lived here for three years. Walter Anderson said he had visited his mother “as recently as several weeks ago and I didn't notice anything wrong then” __

paid his mother $165 th to Help care for his broth-

Police said Mrs. Anderson owned block of property and a factory building in addition to her home. Insurance policies were found covering all but one of her eight children for a total of $16,000.

Detroit Boy Gives Up In Slaying of Father

DETROI'B, Aug. 4 (U. P).—Edward Small, 17-year-old Detroit schoolboy, who hag been the object of an international manhunt for the last two ‘months, surrendered to police today and was booked for the murder of his father. Small and William Hungerford, 16, ‘of Detroit, were charged with stabbing John C. Small to death June 3, and throwing his body in the ‘Rouge river near here.

END FLOUR MILL TIEUP

BUFFALO, N. Y.,, Aug. 4 (U. P). ~Flour production in Buffalo, the

settlement strike of A. F. of L. flour mill work-

Wisconsin Couple Has 18th Child— 12 Girls, 6 Boys

SOLDIERS GROVE, Wis., Aug. 4 (U. P),~—There's always room for one more at the home of Mr. and Mrs Fred Schoville. It's a good thing, too, because the Schovilles have just had their 18th child, Mrs. Schoville, who looks younger than her 37 years, gave birth to a nine pound 12 ounce daughter Saturday. That rings the Schoville score to 12 girls and six boys. One child died in infancy and another has married and moved away. All the others live at home. Another married daughter has left her husband and moved back home with her own 4-year-old child. : There are no twins or triplets in the Schoville family. : The Schovilles were married 22 years ago. She was 14 and he was 18.

Budget Boost

Council Gets Plea For $16,132,000

A city government budget of $16,132,000 for next year, an increase of $530,400 over expenditures this year, was submitted to the city council today by Controller | Geril 8. Ober. hig increase, how-

ever, the rate to raise the rec-

ord city budget will be only $1.93 per $100 property valuation, a drop ry 10 cents under the current city levy, * - Assessments Soar The drop in the tax rate despite the incressed expenditures was made possible, Mr. Ober explained, by the rise of approximately $24 million in assessed property valuations this year over 1946. “If it had not been for the big property valuation increase the city government's tax rate for next year would have been 17 cents higher than this year or about $2.20,” Mr. Ober explaihed. In submitting the $16,132,000 budget for 1948, Mr. Ober announced that his office had trimmed’ $1,573,000 from original requests submitted by department heads. Original requests by the various departments had totaled $17,705,000 which would have been more than $2 million higher than the 1947 expenditures. . . List Big Increase The major increases in the budget were in the fire and’ police departments, city engineer's office and the street commissioner's department, The increase for the police department was listed at $100,512. This is for salaries of 25 new officers and some wage increases. An increase of $155,000 was listed for the fire department to hire 50 more men, The next largest increase was $05,000 in the city engineer's office for the purchase of new equipment; $54,000 increase for the street commissioner to meet wage boosts and $86,000 for the establishment of a traffic engineering department. #The entire budget will be introduced for first reading before the city council tonight. All details of the 19048 blidget must be approved by the city council before it goes to the tax adjustment board in September,

Girl, 2, Survives Night in Woods

SHAWNEE, Kas, Aug. 4 (U. P). ~—A 2T-month-old girl smiled contentedly today, apparently none the

worse for a night spent alone on a heavily wooded hilltop near here, + Carol Don Thurston

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: , disappeared from her parents’ trailer’ house Saturday night and wandered into the woods.

Amusements. 6|Movies ...... - Aviation esses 10 Musié .......

City Asks $539,400

FORECAST: Generally fair, hot and humid today and tomorrow.

Paid Elliott's Liquor Bills, Meyer Testifies

Tells Senators He Also Footed Hotel Costs

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (U, P).— John Meyer, free-spending . press agent for Howard Hughes, told senate investigators today that he paid hotel and liquor expenses of Elliott Roosevelt on a November, 1044 trip to the West coast “in the line of business.” . . The trip was made about a year after Mr. Hughes was awarded an army contract for 100 fast - photo planes. ‘Elliott, then an air forces colonel, had strongly recommended the contract after other high air forge officials had turned it down,

'w. Mr, Meyer testified that Elliott

visited Beverly Hills, Cal., from Nov. 22 to Dec. 8. He said he paid the hotel bill of Elliott and his daughter in Beverly Hills and picked Jp the checks of Elliott and his’ wife-to-be, actress Faye Emerson, during a week-end at the Palm Springs Racquet club, Four in Party There were four persons in the week-end party at Palm Springs— Mr. Meyer, Col. Roosevelt, Miss Emerson and Janet Thomas, another Hollywood actress. Mr. Meyer paid for all. As Mr. Meyer answered questions for a senate war investigating subcommittee looking into Mr. Hughes’ wartime plane contracts, Elliott listened intently from a spectators’ seat in the packed committee room. The senators plan to question him later today in an effort to learn whether the lavish Hughes entertainment may have swayed his judgment in recommending army purchase of the Hughes plane. , Other Developments

There were these other developments: ONE: Tt was learned that two justice department observers are attending all sessions of the Hughes hearing. ‘The justice department would not comment on the reason for theéir presence.

leave for Washington today after eluding a committee subpena Over the weekiend. He is expected to arrive late tomorrow and to veatity Wednesday.

THREE: Mr. Meyer testified that Mr. Hughes footed the bill for $115 worth of ' silk handbags given to Miss Emerson and Judy Cook, a swimmer who entertained at Hughes’ parties.

that he visited the Roosevelt family home in Hyde Park, N. Y., about the time of the 1944 presidential election, when the late president was running for a fourth term. He said he made the trip in company with a group of colonels who were friends of Elliott at the invitation of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt.

FIVE: The Hughes Aircraft Co, according to Mr. Meyer, paid $159.41 for a plane used by the RooseveltEmerson wedding party on the rim of the Grand Canyon on Dec. 3, 1944. He said Jack Frye, president of Transcontinental & Western Air, now owned by Mr. Hughes, personally paid all the wedding bills. SIX: Senator Owen Brewster. AR. Me.) chairman of the full commit-

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Dad Held as Killer After 2 Boys Fight

UNIONTOWN, Pa, Aug. 4 (U.P). —Gerald Miller, 1, and Tommy Johnson, 8, had a fight Seturday. As a result, Tommy's father was in jail today, charged with shooting to death Gerald's father, Paul H. Johnson, 38, Connellsville, shot to death his neighbor, Lester P. Miller, 34, when Miller threatened and taunted him, officers charged.

JAPS TO SEND TOYS TOKYO, Aug. 4 (U, P.) Japan, now allowed to resume limited foreign trade, soon will send quantities of toys and Christmas tree decorations to the United States, Japanese business sources reported today,

TWO: Mr. Hughes made plans to|

FOUR: The press agent revealed

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A Parent Problem, Boy Smokes at 2

CHICAGO, Aug. 4 (U. P).—~Mr. and Mrs. Nick Schmitz complained today that they couldn't find the answer to their problem in any book

on “the care and Testing of chil-

dren.” They are worried because their son, Joey, smokes a pipe, Joey is 2.

sucking on his father's unlit pipes. Then one day he got hold of one that was lit. When his parents found him, he was puffing away like a veteran. They sald he has tried it often since then and has never had any ill effects.

rs NO RETREAT — Former Sovemer Paul V, McNutt told the American Logie the U. S. dare not retreat from leadership in world affairs. He's shown here

+ kegping cool” in his hotel room uz before oe for his speech at Tomlinson hall :

Clubhouse Blast Kills Four Boys

DANVILLE, TH, Aug. 4 (U. P).— Paul Phelps, 19, became the fourth victim of a fire and series of explosions in a backyard clubhouse here when he died of burns. His brother, Howard, 16; John Hinner, 17, and Harry Culp Jr, 18, were burned beyond fecognition in the fire that followed the explosions yesterday. The clubhouse had been built of cast-off boards in the backyard of the Phelps boys’ home.

Greek Rebels Killed ~

ATHENS, Aug. 4 (U, P.).—Press dispatches reported today that 10 guerrillas were killed or wounded in an attack by a band of 300 on Pyrgoes in western Macedonia, while four Greek soldiers and two gendarmes were slain.

VIENNA HOTEL BOMBED VIENNA, Aug. 4 (U. P.).~Time bombs exploded early today in the basement of the Sacher hotel, which is used by British senior officers here temporarily. The blasts caused no casualties and slight damage.

Entire World Is Our Frontier, He Asserts; Hiree Candidates Step Up Vote Drive

The whole world is our frontier, Paul V. McNutt told delegates to the state American Legion convention today. Mr. McNutt, who has served as high commissioner and ambassador to the Philippines, national commander of the Legion and governor of Indiana, warned that danger of a new war lies everywhere, “We cannot contemplate war without contemplating allies,” he said.

“And whether we like it or not, we are our brother's keepers throughout the earth.” : Says U. 8. Key to Peace The United States, he said, is the hope of the world for peace. Our withdrawal from a leading positign in world affairs would “plunge the earth into such chaos and tumult as would soon shake our own west ern world, with its fancied security, to its very foundations.”

The world, on the other hand, is America’s hope for peace, he added. “We must show to the masses of the people of the world that. we know that their welfare is inseparable from our own, and that our efforts today are not to secure more profits fog Americans, but peace and plenty for all mankind.” Need Europe's Products Not even from a selfish economic point of view can this country draw around it the line of isolationism, Mr, McNutt said. With our factories turning out more and more goods, we are becoming more and more dependent on the rest of the world for raw materials—materials we could not do without in event of another world conflagration, Although South America produces many raw materials we need, he pointed out, Latin nations badly need the European and the rest of |

LAS VEGAS, Nev, Aug. 4 (U.

P.)~A baby-faced blond was held

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Baby-Faced Blond Held in Slayin

After Kisses Lure Victim to Forest Glade

Husband Admits He Shot Vacationist As Wife Sat on Blanket, Held Him in Her Arms

“He was still breathing strongly when Lois took his pulse, so I hit him on the head with a large rock.” On information furnished by Hardy, Mclain's body was found wrapped in an Indian blanket. Three bullets had pierced the head

_|and the skull was crushed.

Hardy said they took MecLain's automobile and threw the fatal

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Week-End State Toll Numbers 12 Victims

Twelve more victims were added to the state traffic death toll during the week-end, including one fatality in Indianapolis. James Burke, 34, of 1431 E. New York st., was killed yesterday when he lost control of his car and plunged into an embankment at Shelby and Maryland sts. The accident raised the traffic death toll here to 80 for the year.

Mr. Burke was a blacksmith at the Beech Grove shops of the Big Four railroad and was proprietor of Burke's tavern at Shelby and Georgia sts. He is survived by the widow, Mrs. Florence Burke, and five children.

Others killed in the state Saturday and Sunday were: Miss Hazel Creitchon, 18, of Elgin, 1, fatally injured in a two-car collision near Oswego, Ind. yesterday. Ray Thompson, 18, Evansville, killed in an automobile-truck collision on Highway 41 near Hazel. ton, His companion, Ernest Murch, Wheatland, was reported near death at a Hazelton hospital. Harley Chrisman, 63, of Columbus, killed yesterday when he was struck by a car driven hy Hanna Eliza Warren, of Hartsville, on a highway near Columbus. Samuel Conley, 70, of Chrisney,

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Bureau Predicts 98°—or Worse

Sticky Humidity Adds fo Discomfort; Many Sleep in Backyards; Heat Aids Corn

The mercury hit 95 at 1 p. up toward the top of the

m. today and headed right on thermometer.

The day appeared a cinch to be the hottest of the year so far and the weather bureau reported an “expected” tap of at least 98 degrees, maybe more.

No relief from the heat, I ———

Women Find Way To Beat Heat v (Well Sorta)

————— By EMMA RIVERS MILNER Trust a woman to outwit even “Old Sol.” “Keep quiet in mind and body. Plan your work so there'll be no rushing to get things finished. And don't get excited whatever you do.” That sums up the philosophy of Mrs. Leota McConachie, 620 8, Gerrard dr, for defeating this sweltering day. Mrs, McConachie weighs 275 lbs. and makes no bones of it. She manages to get a little cooler simply by noting the gentle movement of the leaves on the trees in front of her house. She refuses to emulate Englishmen and mad dogs who fare forth in the mid-day sun, Instead, dressed as usual in her simple house frock, she goes about her “lighter household tasks today —bed making, dish washing and the like. She will serve for dinner tonight tomatoes from her funden, Sunday's roast sliced daintlly, and iced tea.

In a calm frame of mind, she took t to night

to the back of her neck. then she takes it off, waves it in the air to cool it and then replaces it. Last night she slept with an ice pack on the back of her neck and a bath towel under her to catch the drip of perspiration. It's the “steam that comes up out

of the ground” that troubles Mrs. |

Muench and makes her suffer so in| this weather. She will drink buttermilk freely and also hot coffee during the hot spell. “Honey,” she commented, “a hot drink drives out the body heat, I prefer it to iced lemonade.” ¥ » ” MRS. CHARLES MUENCH who lives on the South side is no relation to Mrs. Carl Muench. But like Muench is wrestling with the heat, at her home, 2153 8. New Jersey st. However, since she has three children at home--ages 16, 14 and 8—she is more concerned with how to keep them cool and well than any other aspect of the extreme temperature. They must drink the tap water, no iced drinks and no very hot ones, is her rule. Also there must be no strenuous play. She prepares simple food such as cereal and milk for breakfast; salad and sandwiches for lunch, and a cold supper. As for Mrs, Muench, personally, she did the washing this morning as she always does on Monday and dressed

fatally injured when struck by an automobile while walking along a! highway near his home, John W. Drake, 20, of Terre

| went out of control and crashed on Highway 41 near Terre Haute. Cecil W. Hunter, 27, of Colum-

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September Corn Sets New High

CHICAGO, ‘Aug. 4 (U, P).— September corn futures hit a new all<time high on the Chicago board ‘lof trade today. All corn futures were up the full 8-cent limit permitted in a day's trading. Reports of weather which might make additional inroads into the corn crop were behind a rush of buying which pushed futures up at the opening. September went to $2.22% a bushel, a new all-time high here. It was

corn went to $2.21 last month. December was at $2.06% and May $2.01%, all up the 8-cent limit from the previous closing price. Reports of dry weather from parts corn belt where rain is needed

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as coolly as she could for the task.

» ” y MRS. MERRITT HARRISON, 48 8. Downey ave, feels that the {South Side neighborhood of Mrs. Muench is not hotter than Irvington. “It's terrible out here,” she exclaimed. “And yet we have an acre of ground around our house and a good circulation of air. , My little nephew, Thomas Wright; 6, is visit-

ing me. T shall see that he wears|night by declaring the Uhited N:

as few clothes as possible, and drinks plenty of water." Perhaps to envision Mrs. Harrison’s menu for tonight will prove soothing. She ‘will serve a cold meat loaf with hard-boiled eggs, a tossed green salad, one hot dish (corn on the cob), red raspberries with ice cream, cake and iced tea.

Burns Wife's Clothes To End ‘Gadding’

CAMDEN, N. J, Aug. 4 (U. P), ~Joseph Velentino; 40, was accused today of ripping his wife's clothing from her body and burning it “so she couldn't go out.” Mr, Velentino was arrested last night when his wife, Betty, 38, ran apartment, wrapped

complicated by ‘a sticky hi midity, was in sight. ~ Mike Daily, 58, of 523 Warren ave., collapsed yesterday as he was umpiring a baseball game at Riverside-park. He was treated at City hospital, Sleep in Yards Dairymen on their early rounds this morning reported dozens of residents sleeping in back yards seak+ ing relief.’ Nearest the city got to reasonable comfort during the night was the low of 78 at Ta. m. At 4 p. m. yesterday the high of 96 was re-

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Couple, 94 and 73, Wed To Stop Gossiping

DETROIT, Aug. 3 (U. Pj ~There was no wagging of tongues today as a frail, 94-year-old lady sat down to play euchre ‘with, her new husband. j Mrs. Ellen Anderson O'Brien Jones Davis and 73-year-old William H. Van Asperen were married Saturday after living together “plstonically” for 17 years. They decided on ‘the ceremony to “stop the dad- -ganged gossiping of neighbors.” They didn’t want {0 go anywhere on a honeymoon. Jhey said they would play cards and maybe take in a movie.

———————iE——————" (Calls UN ‘Dead Dodo’ WASHINGTON, Aug. 4: (U. P.) = {Gerald L. K. Smith was mildly booed by a crowd of 500 when he opened the “militant” phase of his Christian Nationalist crusade here last a

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