Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 August 1947 — Page 1
FORECAST: Fair and somewhat warmer today and tonight; tomorrow Tair and lot,
58th YEAR—NUMBER 130
Odom Streaks Past Shanghai Toward Tokyo
Pilot ‘Going Strong’ On. World Flight
SHANGHAI Aug. 9
Shanghai without stopping tonight. He headed for Tokyo on his round-the-world speed record. The converted A-26 bomber passed over at 9:52 a. m. (Indianapolis time), . Going strong after the long and hazardous hop over “the hump” from India and across China, Mr, Odom abandoned his provisional plan for a possible stop at Shanghai and spt a course straight to Tokyo. Striking deep into the second half of his globe girdling flight, Mr, Odom was well ahead of the record he was challenging, that set by Wiley Post in 1033. Over .Shanghai he was 45 hours. and 59 minutes out of Chicago, his takeoff point. He left Calcutta at 8:45 a. m. after a stop of two hours and 25 minutes. The pilot of the “Bombshell” landed at Calcutta at 1:20 a.’ m. after completing a 1400-mile dash from Karachi—straight across the heart of India—in 4 hours and 50 minutes, Mr. Odom was expected to arrive in Tokyo at 1:58 p. m, (Indianapolis Ses, Odom radioed ahead he ex-
U. P)~/ William P. Odom -streaked Over
t in quest of a solo
oy to stay at the Tokyo airbase about-two hours during which ani 18-inch. loop antenna will be in-| stalled and two batteries replaced on his plane, .
Plans Another Stop He did not request wing tanks| for additional gasoline which would | make a non-stop flight from Tokyo! to Chicago possible. It -seemed likely Mr. Odom would plan another Stop at Anchorage, Alaska. If he takes time to rest, he may have the extra tanks attached and attempt to go %ll the way to Chi-| cago in one hop. If he takes off immediately he probably will stop at! Anchorage, Alaska. Mr. Odom told an Exchange Tele- | graph correspondent that the | weather aon the first half of the .trip had been much worse than! when he piloted the same plane! around the globe last April, along | with Co-Pilot T. Carroll Sallee and | his sponsor, pen-manulacturer Mil“ton Reynolds, " The “April trip established a! world record for circling the globe with a Plane manned by a crew.| Mr. Odomh was virtually matching | , it alone, but soon would have to pause for rest.
Lebanon Veteran. | Marks 99th Year
Times State Service LEBANON, Ind. Aug. 9—W. KE. | Whittinghill of Lebanon, last sur-) viving Boone county Civil War vet-} eran and one of the few remaining | in the nation, is 99 today, Mr. Whittinghill, who served as a| sergeant with Co. B, 4th Kentucky | volunteer infantry, marked the day) quietly at his home, There will be |® a family dinner at 6 p. m. today Aug. 9 also was the birthday anniversary of his wife, who died Jast | year. Visitors expected for the observance during the day include his son | and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. | O. D. Whittinghill, Red Key, Ind: * a grandson, James Roark, .Colum- | bus, Ind, and family, and a grand-| daughter, Mrs. 8am Bush, Thorntown, and her husband and tami. Miss Hazel Whittinghill, a daughter, | lives with him,
Firebug, 17, Seized In Death of Child
DETROIT, Aug. 9 (U.P. —A 17-year-old boy who told police he set nine fires because “it felt good to| see the firemen running around”| was held today for investigation in! the death of Alberta Mitchell, 8. Police said Emil A. Gerner, of] suburban Hamtramck, told thenr he thought the two-story frame .ouse in which the girl was burned to death in June, 1946, was a barn.
He sald he set fire to nine barns/from leave in Cairo was derailed
and garages in the last two years.
“I never intended to hurt ‘aay the Lydda * airport, No . military
body,” he said,
South Bend Wife Denies Giving Husband Poison
SOUTH BEND, Ind, Aug. 8 (U.| “I don't care what you say or do." Plant installations occupies only a Washington Colling—
Britain's Cut in Imports
P.).~A plump, 40-year-old housewife and-mother was arrested to- | day on suspicion of attempting to poison her husband, Hulan A. Lane, #3, an aviation plant employee. Mrs: Pauline Lane denied fo police that she gave Mr. Lane ‘medicine containing arsenic and mercury, - The husband was convalescing at the home of a sister in Wichita, Kas, from what sauthorisaid were the effects of poison- . They are the parents of three grown children,
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| Preno, 18, and George Haught,
lat gun point from Moses Thompson, vera! state and federal govern-
| pounds, “I still didn’t do it.”
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PROPOSED PARK FROM THE AIR—Dotted line on the above aerial photograph shows the approximate boundary of the 2700-acre
Ft. Harrison area, most of which could be converted park. N Numbered areas are: (1) Fall Crook lagoon; (2) Boy
Seize: Armed Pair ‘Great. Possib In Two Holdups As Recreatic
Bandits Get Only $98; Identified ‘by Victims
Two armed bandits were cap[tured by police: early ‘today three [the picture, minutes after they had” held up a|
by both houses of congress two! The capture was made on a de- weeks ago. | scription ‘given of two men who| This resolution “requests” the war| {had held up another filling station department and other authorities to! attendant half an hour before, a make no final disposal of this and few blocks away. {other military lands before next Held on vagrancy charges are | March 15, unless states and cities {Joy C. Starens, 19, and wames concerned formally relinquish their Jones, 22, both of Monrovia. Police | priority and certify that they are aid both men had been identified not interested in the areas fa as the bandits who held up the|“public, educational, recreational, two filling station men. | medical or solentific. purposes.” Flash Rusty Pistol | Neither state nor city has as vet Police said the pair robbed Paul surrendered such priority, it was 26, learned today. {attendants ‘at the Gaseteria sta-| Requests on File
tion at 1000 E. New York st, of| On the contrary, requests for use $28 and a half-hour later took $70 {of parts of the Pt. Harrison area by
|64, at the Spur filling station at|mens units are on file and still 1021 E. Michigan st. | pending with the war department. Mr, Thompson said one of the | The Indiana national guard has pair fired a wild shot after they asked for use of repair shop and {held him up. !storage facilities already there for Police took the two men to both (na giiard’s mobile equipment, now temporarily housed at Camp Atter- | (Continued " Page 3—Columm 3) bam could use the fort's landing field for light infantry aircraft, it was learned.
| Jewish” Band Blasts ‘British’ Military Train
9 (U. P.) —A has a priority. which it has not surBn a oh from Cairo rendered. Military reserve organwas derailed’today by an explosion [izations now quartered in scarce | reported to be the opening move | and costly rented space in downlin a Jewish underground campaign town bulldings also are said to want to destroy all rail lines in’ Palestine [Some of the Ft. Harrison. buildings by the time the next fruit crop ol for immediate use.
ilities' Seen
Proposals. for Private Sale of. Property Believed Blocked Temporarily by Congress
State and city officials today. viewed with favor proposals to convert Ft. Harrison "acreage into a public recreation center, with possible. Pi har housing, military and other uses for portions of it entering
Proposals for purchase by private interests for real estate subdivision filling ‘station attendant and fired were believed temporarily blocked lone shot.
The veterans administration also|
Bulered Indianupolis, Ind,
as’ Becond-Class Matter at PostoMce 1ssthed daily except Sunday
SATURDAY, AUGUST 9 1947
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
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Ft. Harrison Park Plan Wins Support | Heat's on-
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98 to 100° By Sunday
0d "Aerial Photograph by Tip Timmermah; Times Staff’ Photographer.
(3) Ft. Horio Target Range: (4) Ft. Harrison gravel pit: (5] Ft. Harrison nine-hole ‘golf course: (6) present housing area of fort: 7) Indian lake. and (8) nearby Oeidendon reservoir, alist, 75
n pirity a Spin Stepson, 39; Fourth Marriage
YSBORO, 111, “Aug. 9 (UU! i) 3% ~-Mabel Genevieve Pitts, 75-[year-old spiritialist, wks on her fourth honeymoon today—this time year-old stepson.
to a public Scout comp:
May Leave U. S. If | WASHINGTON. Aug. 9 (U. P).—
Howard Hughes said today he had " 4 'staked his reputation on the buge |", h, her 3
flying boat he is building. He added that if .it proved to be a failure he “probably would deave) this country ahd never come back. Testifying for the fourth straight | {day in the senate war investigating | subcommittees inquiry into $40. million worth of plane contracts, Mr. | Hughes® made the assertion after {another . stormy opening. : ’ That came when Hugh Fulton, former associate of President Tru{man, sought. unsuccessfully to Rive! “me spiry. slight, keen-eved woman {his story to senate . investigators... wearing ‘her’ wedding’ dress as Mr. Fulton, charged with attemptsyne sat in their tiny honeymbon to block the inquiry, argued for five cottage. | minutes with Chairman Homer Fer- |i, 1ouse dress, “to avoid any, fuss | guson (R. Mich.) for a chance 10,14 bother.” tell his side of the case. But Mr.| apg: pigs said she'd been sup-
Ferguson refused. | porting Victor with her spiritualism { Put Aside Feud and preaching since his father—and The subcommittee which first had her third husband--died two years intended to call Mr. Fulton, decided #89. {not to do so after Mr. Hughes and| “80 we decided to take my old | | Mr. Brewster put aside—temporarily age pension check and get married.” {at least—their “you're a liar” feud, i - Mrs. Pitts’ first husband was killed ! | Meanwhile. John Meyer, the when the’ train on which he was! check-grabbing publicity agent of working plunged through a bridge. Mr. Hughes’ industrial empire, was The other two died natural deaths. still missing. U. 8. marshals were Joking for husband, but they died Mr, Meyer for whom a subpensd was . {issued yesterday after he failed to ‘Smokey,’ Mother Cat, show up at the committee session A previous subpena expired at midnight Thursday, and Mr, Meyer took
by a concurrent resolution passed |
Gravy Train... Biscuit Wheels
® There's a seasoned army sergeant in Italy whose full time job is minding children. Officer's children, that is. e In Italy a colonel used army. aquipment to set up his girl friend in housekeeping. She: was upstairs with the baby when the army came to move the furniture. After a costly trial the colonel was charged $500, The army called it a fine, - Also in Italy G. I's salute brass at 100 yards or land in the jug. Bing, like that—no trial, eo In Italy officers’ wives are unsatisfied with eightroom apartments and three servants. Enlisted men, if they hre real good and salute properly, get a week-end pass ~avery 64 weeks, ® In Italy, in sunny Italy, it's all sunny and rosy for the brass, For the G. I, it's all burn. ¢ In some of the most re~ vealing articles The Times has ever published Robert C. Ruark exposes the whole mess in Italy. : Watch for his first report
{T thought I'd get me a young man this time,” she said. The bride and het. Strdfping, six-{foot-tall ‘bridegroom, Victor Robert | Pitts, a part-time railroad section-! Hand, were married in the parsonfage of the First Lutheran church. Nobody gave the bride away, » .» ~ “WE SORT of eloped.” she say “1 didn't want my family te kndw right away."
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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 9 (U.P) Smokey, a family pet, clung for the (Continued on Page 2=Column 3) seventh day
i re ripe. Veterans organizations also have
#00 Kk | asked for low-rental housing for The train. bringing ps. ae veterans’ families there, ®
Plenty of Room None of these uses would clash!
near Wilhelma, in the vicinity of cagualties resulted. phasized.
headquarters buildings, officers and | non-com homes, barracks, Billings |
said the stout Mrs. Lane, who 1s five | | portion of the reservations 27
| six inches tall and weighs 220{8cres. This ‘part of the reservaBeet, n " {tion grounds with its buildings
| probably is adequate to handle all
She was detained at the county wo...e activities, both state and
| fail * under $2000 bond and was bound over to the ‘St. Joseph coun- “wou. poner city y planning ty grand jury for fall action | engineer, lauded the idea to conPolice detective Gustave Shut-| yet the undeveloped ares of PY.
bit
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with the development of the area | emergency call as a recreation center, it was em- | volunteers to ‘help exhausted fire organization at Hotel Severin, The waters said. “She just sits up there |
and cries, especially inthe morning * The built-up area which Includes! brush fires' that already have laid elect state officers today. Memorial J
hospital and power and heating!
| maternity ward | birth to kittens,
Monday in The Times. = - 90th H Di ears Dimitt - Three new-born kittens have been)
) Call for Forest Fire Aid | Hoosier veterans of the 90th In-'fround at the base of the 75- foot SAN PRANCISCO, Aug. 9 (U. P.). fantry division today heard an ad-| palm tree, dead. ~The forest service issued an dress by Joseph Dimitt of Kokomo,| «1 don't know whether she has] today for more assistant secretary of the ’national other kittens with her,” Mrs. GHlbert
fighters battle roaring forest and! veterans of ETO action were to and evening.’ waste to nearly 30000 acres in! services at the World War memorial | Nevada, California and Idaho.
pany, Mrs. Waters said. Admits Netting $23,000 ‘From 52-20 Club
Won't Ease U.S. Food Prices oe
—Hans Larsen, 25-year-old veteran, has confessed he collected $23,000 | Heat Wave Damage in Corn Belt Offsets Deflationary Effect Program Might Have . WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—Don’t expect any drop jin 8 food prices as result of Britain's cutting imports. Not for arin Sopustise yl _emplofment | some time, at least, say government economists. * What British stopped from U, S.—amount not yet | known-will be only drop in bucket of total farm production here, now valued at about $24 billion annually. British food purchases here recently have been running about $65. million monthly, or annual rate of $780 million, 4 damage in corn. belt ‘more than ‘offsets whatever ey IE ES Any upward
swing on domestic grain market--and there have beeni plenty lately— invaives tore dollars than are conserved ini Britian importa. i
shad hurt tte sige here late this winter.
Igram whereby unemployed former
vestigator for the department, a Larsen admitted Ning 5 separa claims in two score California elt ring In each one he submitted a forged army discharge certificate and then | made: webkly rounds of the cities to fplipet $20 in each one.
hi aa A cots sl eb i BOAT HITS MINE; SAVE 400 COPENHAGEN, Aug. 9 (U. P).— ont se ferry carrying 400 pera mine off Denmark
She was married in a cot- |
jin ex-G. 1.8 benefi(s under the pro-|
{servicemen receive $20 ‘weekly for | (a maximum of 52 weeks, the Cali-|
Patrick 0. Cronin, supervising in-¥
Farmers Look in
Vain for Signs
Of Rain to Aid Corn Crop
The second heat wave of the week settled down over
| Indiana today
as farmers looked vainly for signs of a
| drenehing rain to relieve thirsty Crops. |
“Fair and somewhat warmer”
was the cautious weather
| bureau forecast, which meant temperatures in the 3's by
LOCAL TEMPERATURES .% am... 8 Le Mam .. 8 . 12 12 (Neen) ., 88 8: 1 pom 89,
Indianapolis Man, Niece Drowned
Manitou Boat Upset |
yesterday. _.. boat was rescued, H. Schafer, 48, of 605 Weghorst st. | Palmer st, bach, 726; the drowned girl. Upsets Near Shore
victims.
ern Indiana resort spot: today,
| swim. Mrs.
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fo sher “grip on -the “overturned be _ | boat and sank in seven fest of wa-
| : also had ‘tried! - ‘to stay afloat by holding to the that the floors in the statehouse
{ter.- Mr. Schafer boat but lost his grip. The bodies were recovered hour later. i
dolph Temple, 2701 Kenwood ave.
Save 3d ‘Occupant in the
An Indianapolis man and his 4-year-old niece were drowned in a vacation tragedy at Lake Manitoy uniess theres rain. - The
The third occupant of the capsized | The drowning victims were John and Carol Frances Sheehan, 19 E. Rescued was Mrs. Helen Bachen-
Sanders st, an aunt of |
The small boat in which the three were riding capsized only 400 yards from shore in view of Mr, Schafer's threa sons, who reached the scene in another boat too late to save the
" The party was to have ended a {six-weeks' vacation at the north
None of the three knew -how to} fand would break
Murs, Eschenbach was rescued by “All my other husbands died. so three other vacationers, Mrs. Ru-1
this afternoon. About tomorrow the weather man did not equivocate. “Hot,” he sgid, “with high temperatures ranging between | 98 and 100.” All-Time High ; In Chicago, No. 2 yellow corn { reached $2.47 a bushel in the cash { corn market, six cents higher than {was paid yesterday and another new all-time high. This in turn was expected to boost price of meat even higher later ion in the year. Damage to Hoosier corn
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crops was as yet only spotty, but farmers feared it would become general weather bureau saw none in sight. The mercury is expected to his 100 degrees in most parts of the {midwest by tomorrow as hot winds {rolled in from the mountain and ‘north central states. 19 Die of Heal Ip St. Louis 19 people died of {heat prostration yestérday and loMclals said that facilities at the {municipal morgue were taxed, More heat fatalities today were expected to be added. to the total of 57 since July 30 in the Missouri eity. There was one note of optimism as the new heat. wave broke over the Midwest. The Chicago weather (pureay said it would not last long up early next The bureau said the hol air
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In Des Moines, In. it
| buckled, and looked.like a minia~
an! [ture roller-coaster. ‘The floor also
| bulged in 1936, when Towa last had an exterided heat grave. In Indiana, the crop damage was .{sectidhal. In some areas corn grew
Albert Hofmeister, 4920 N. Capitol 8 much as four inches in one night,
ave, and Glen Gadsted, Chicago. Second Family Tragedy
It was the second time a drowning | death had struck the Schafer fam- |
ily, Mr. Schafer's brother, Edward,
was drowned in the White River |
| flood of 1813.
Carol Frances was the only child
of Mr, and Mrs. Harry Sheehan, Mr. Schafer, Brandt Automatic
Charles and Ralph Schafer. Double services will be held at 8:30 a. m. home and at 9 a. m. at Sacred Heart | Catholic church. Burial will be in St. Joseph cemetery, ‘
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i8She had two daughters by her first. wh
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Stays in Tree-Top Ward
today to the tree-top| where she gave dai
Last hope for rescue of the family | cenotaph are scheduled tomorrow. pet rested with the telephone com |
I TRAGEDY — Four - year-old Carol Frances Sheehan [tdp) and John H. Schafer: (bottom right) were drowned yesterday in Lake Manitou, Mrs. Helen Eschenbach (bottom left] was rescued from the overturned boat. ad
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‘Hinky Dink” Kenna ‘Estate Worth $1 Million
| CHICAGO, Ak. 9 (U.P) Michael (Hinky Dink) Kenna, onetime overlord of 's roaring first. ward, left an estate of $1,014. | 886, an inheritance tax return fled
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a salesman for the Cashier Co, is! survived by his three sons, Robert,
Tuesday at Lauck funeral
{while in others, | pax ched. George leonard, a farmer near | Whiteland, Ind. summarized the | situation as follows: ‘Can't Understand Weather’ “It looks like if it isn't one thing it's another. This is the worst year I've ever tried to farm, I just can't understand the weather.” Crop forecasters said any further changes in prices depended largely on the weather. Parts of Towa and Nebraska were hard hit and experts said a week or 10'days more without rain might be disastrous. Terre Haute reported the highest {reading in the state yesterday, It [was 93 there. Evansville, Ft. Wayne, Lafayette and Indianapolis also |sweltered in. 90-degree or above | temperatures, while it was LF 1 {South Bend,
‘Requests 39 Millions
For United Nations | LAKE SUCCESS, N, Y. Aug. 9 | (U. P.) —Secretary General Trygve | Lie placed his 1948 budget request of $30,403,792 before the 55 member nations today together with a proposal that all future spending be checked carefully to make certain fit is imperative to the maintenance {of peace or economic regonstruce | tion. Mr, Lie attributed the increased budget, up $11,063792 from this year, to “the rapid growth of United Nations activities and the integra« | tion. of stay to deal with them.”
Rum Grounds Cripple LIVERPOOL, England, Aug. 9 (U, p ).—Legless Ian Scott Dennis, 33~ 4 | year-old Oxford graduate, was fined | $100 and forbidden to use his motor | invalid chair for'a year yesterday, { when found guilty of dperating the | vehicle while under the influence { of alcohol.
Vacation Starts Today?
@ Then be sure to make ar« rangements with your Times.
the .crops were