Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 September 1947 — Page 5

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MONDAY; SEPT. 8, 1047

7 Killed In

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eek-End Accidents; 4 On State | 2Digin Air Crash Near

| Crown Point

High wa fs: Two Robbers

Caught, Third Hunted Here

One Is_Wounded Near Logansport

Times State Servies i WALTON, Ind, ‘Sept. 8.

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Crown

Lyons Youth Drowns

In White River

Indiana’s week.- end death “toll stood at 7 today with two dead in

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id an airplane crash and four traffic) i for the third member of a trio who ~~ aming rooms fatalities. | robbed two business firms here and n here, with One drowning death was re- attempted to enter the bank turned ng the main ported. John York, 15, Lyons, ; to Indianapolis today following the ators were drowned in White river south o eR * his two companions. Dickap bes De Tyed Ina # des HE PICKS 'EM-—John Ver. a escaped on foot early ckdown oves hole while wading. non Hummel, 23-year-old med- |- - ming ‘38 olficers uisville, . Ky, Others dead in other accidents] ical student at the University yesterday . mo! als com “The dead are: of Tennessee, says he can “pick [brought down one of his companions

with sawed-off shotgun and. pistol shots as he took cover behind a tree near the bank.

The second man was captured

fasfer than ‘Miss America" Hummel, whose

a pretty lady" judges of the ' . contest. Mr.

Howard Carter, 23, Chicago. Bernard Scheffler, 25, Chicago. Mrs. Selma Patton, 43, Hammond.

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Robert Snyder, 17, Frankfort. engagement to Barbara Jo | tter he had fled in a car two miles j Mrs. Winifred Jones, 65, Gary. Walker, the 1947 "Miss Amer. | vowed Logansport. He was taken Mrs. Mary Baber, 70, Gary, ica," will be announced Sept. | oy Cass County Sheriff Harold The fatal airplang crash which 24, dated the 1947 Maid of |Smith. Be 3 sted gp ge e registration, {took the lives of Mr. Carter and Cotton, Hilma Seay, before Both o e captur cipal election Mr, B8chefller occurred: yesterday police Indianapolis addresses. The

‘meeting Miss Walker. _

na _ wo near CroWn nt, Ind, when their wounded man, Walter J. Parker, US yer rou ; , SMASHUP —A Terre Haute man was critically injured when the car above |piane on ony wires and 29, 724 E- New York ft. is uiudor a | spun into a ditch after sideswiping a semi-trailer today. A passenger in the car crashed. The men, trapped in the V F W Report police guard = lopunapurt : . > burning plane, were burned beyond morial hospita e w was uninjured. Teroghition. and bullet wounds in the right arm ohio. . Two other plane crashes were re- and hip. fichigan, a Refu ges Report of G. I. Earnings Refu ees Scream ported yesterday. Two Indianap- Supports UMT Held in Jall al. Changed by VA ylolis men, Earl Disher, 30, of 25. W. The other gave . his name as a y WASENGTON, Sat. 3. 2h) B oy a aioe Stor Demands ee Ee waar |—~The veterans administration said 0 . ndolph st, crashe: st. [ E. 10th at. Hacked to Death [today that veterans studying full Kick ut Land into a tree on the farm of Olsen Congress Be Called jail without bond pending investi Sail hi time at colleges and universities| Hunt, 4 miles northwest of Dan- CLEVELAND, Sept. 8 (U. P).— gation. . |under ‘the G. I. bill no longer will 400 ville yesterday afternoon. The national security council of the] Ofeers believe the third man is AY Sikhs Slay Moslems | {have to make periodic reports of| 2] Go to Camp Was Demonstrating Veterans of Foreign Wars will pre- g50 a resident 6f indianapolis. od ave, On Train at Delhi thelr earnings. On German Soil Mt. ‘Digiter tin fai 3 ai Acme Telephoto, [sent a four- jolt défense pious, Both Parker and Enlow are fors 0th at, By JAMES MICHAELS Under the new plan, veterans| HAMBURG, Sept. 8 (U. P)~—| "3 BI eoniikion 1ES—Marilyn Buferd, "Miss America ‘of |including immedia option Off yr inmates of Indiana state res Heh ave. United Press. Saft Correspondent (Will be required at the time of British troops today Jaded” Javoriet Methodist Vospitel. IMs. SiikSins AEN OF mune "Miss ima of 1947,2-Barbaca.Jo. [universal military training, 0 the yo. tory at Pendleton. Parker was 9X. ghar, NEW DELHI, Sept. 8—Bearded |régistraticiy to estimate thelr earn screailli, Kicking and weeping|neit-reehesdaiien tresterh Cte Iker of M his T t the Atlantic Cit beaut agéant, |acleates to the 4 ammusi-oon- teleased 18 months ago. Enlow was Sikhs, wielding three-foot swords, lings for the full period of enroll- | jewish refugees. from the transport police said the two were practicing] Walker o ih is, enn, at the Ny iy pag vention today. at the reformatory several years a Estate Of | attacked ‘the Lahore train at the ment. Their subsistence allowances Ocean Vigour. spot Jaudings. Me Dias hd dale Chairman Charles C. Ralls, of ago on charges of armed robbery. SL. main Delhi ‘station today. will be figured on the basis of the! The troo emploved their ®R® ontro. emonstra Mi A { R h Washington, D. C, said the counc charged with burglarize E. Michigan At least 50 Moslem men, women estimates. . | truncheons oy but used|landings to his student, Mr. Hig- ISS merica 0 erurn would demand an immediate ses- ae gl ole ph hey bank and children were hacked to death. | VA said it would require no physical force to compel recalci- gins. sion of congress to (1) enact uni- where they took $20, and a Walton dence, 271. 8, The Sikhs literally cut the Mos-|further report of earnings except in| trants to set foot on German soil] Pilot Roy Meek Windigler, 31, To College and Boy Friend versal military training; set up a drug store. lems to bits whilé Hindu troops cases where a veteran's earned in-| The unloading of the Ocean|Little York, Ill, and his passenger, | yore for the mobilization of man- O. R. Carson, Logansport police Y and police stood at the scene watch- [come was in excess of his estimate.| Vigour was the first phase of the Dora Jackman, 76, Milroy, escaped 1 30- Pound Curvaceous Brunet, 5 Feet, 7 Inches power, industry and finance to chief, said Walton residents called rlington ave, ing idly and making no effort to! Sc m——— ee — !debarkation of some 4300 refugees injury when their Cub cruiser plane | function in case of a national him o report three men prowling ington ave. intervene, ‘Leave Italy by Dec. 25 twho had sought to go to Palesiine/crashed in a cornfield near Milroy, Tall, Shuns Stage, Screen Offers | emergency: (3) return of the eoh-| Loo oro town Ih the early 2 E. Washe The attack came as the Indian | WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (U. P..! {aboard the blockade runner, Exodus.|Rusly county. The plane was de- ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Sept. 8 (U. P.).—Miss America of 1047, trol of atomic energy to the mil- hours of the morning. government had. announced new | _The last of the 602695 U. S. Trouble broke out when about malished. tall, brunet Barbara Jo Walker, shrugged a pretty shoulder at tentative tary with the prohibition against He dispatched two patrol cars. (rear), 1304 emergency regulations under which troops who once swarmed over half the refugees aboard the Ocean| Mrs Patton died In St. Mar-| stage and screen offers today. | sharing information with any other| __1t0 CRUISE RG BN Ce : anyone. caught looting, burning or Italy will be gone from there by|Vigour had debarked. Steel-hel-\garet’s hospital, Hammond, after| She. plans to return to Memphis, Tenn. for her last year of college nation whatsoever, and (4) immedi-| "0 HC Fo sate, Lt. 10: E. Mickle killing would be shot on sight. | Christmas at’ the latest, it appeared meted Britis troops entered thely car driven by her husband, James and marriage .to her medical student sweetheart, ~ | ately tmplement &xxtiaaal science Virice Carson ordered to stop The government also decided that, today. It will mark the first com- evil-smelling holds of the ship and patton, 49, collided with one oper- As practical as she is beautiful, talented Barbara Jo, who as Miss research. foundation. but they fled around Then ¥ and meleeinnt® Sikhs would be forbidden to wear plete withdrawal of this nation's! | dragged or carried refugees up to ated by Chester Ojdana 24, Erie, Memphis, was crowned Miss Amer-|—— ———ariio - Louis E. Starr, retiring com- Patreimen Janes Settles and their traditional three-foot swords, world war II forces from a former the pier, Pa. yesterday. Both drivers were ica Saturday night in the climax of | waist t quite nicely in a gray virgin| mander-in-chief of the V. F. W., Charles’ Burks gave cl Parl | but must limit themselves to blades enemy country. Some' Fist-Fights Result also taken to the hospital. the annual beauty pageant, said Wool suit embroidered with silver, qo... qed a special session of cOn-| pb over behind & tree and not more than 9 inches long. One refugee was stunned by a ; fer “would have to be at-| With a long cut-away coat and a ‘gress to appropriate money to re-| i}... tened them. Burks fired his But not a move was made by the ered. Next to him was an oldjtruncheon blow and a number ap- Blamed on Fog By Aes 16 sate Hie. lave Memphis| Mid- -calf length skirt. ‘build the armed, forces in an ad revolver and Settles his shot police to halt the attack on the man, his throat ripped .open, but|peared to have engaged in fist-| Robert Snyder was killed and Furi college. As beauty queen; she sald she ap-| dress last night. The charges struck Parker in the ¥ Moslems, who had jammed the (still alive. I appealed for help fights with the troops. two companions injured when their 8 proved the longer skirt “in its wif this is not accomplished at! riort ‘arm and hip. The other man train in hopes of reaching safety| for him, but a tall Sikh merely|. The refugees were packed aboard|.q, crashed into the rear of a truck Barbara Jo, a singing Sunday lace=at teas and dantes, but not! once, i fear the United States will

at Lahore in Moslem ruled Pakis-| came up, stared and spat inwthe a8 train and taken to a camp near school teacher, wants to be a school] |P escaped on foot.

e - shattered compartments.

tan. dying man's face.

No Succor Given

baggage handcart§ in the stati 0 Wa or in pools of blodd In the train's dyed red

lay the Moslem youngster, his ‘head sev=-| | had plunged deep into her body.

Within a third class compartShortly after the attack I saw|ment lay an aged Moslem crouched witz,’ “Belsen” and “Maideneck”— bodies, chopped and cut, lying onlover a bundle of possessions. Next|the names of infamolis Nazi ex- _ his daughter, her sari termination camps—and hurled Red th her own blood. Her arm was a half-ripped off as she as their train rolled away. On the train inside the station) had sought futilelyqto parry the body of a 12- year-old| sharp-bladed Sikh sword which

Kuecknitz, eight miles from Luebeck. The refugees shouted “Ausch-

Cross food packages at®the troops

When the Ocean Vigour was unloaded the second transport, Empire Rival, was towed into the Ham-

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burg docks. Debarkation of its refugees was scheduled for dawn tomorrow. The third transport, Runnymede Park, was expected to anchor outside Hamburg just before nightfall.

REPORT 17 DIE IN BLAST MADRID, Sept. 8 (U. P.).—The |Cifra news agency reported today {that 17 persons were dead, 20 were {missing and 38 were injured in an explosion of an army munitions dump in suburban Alcala de Henares.

| STRAUSS

near Frankfort at 4 a. m. yesterday. Billy Shaffer 16, Frankfort, driver, |'eacher. told police a thick fog obscured his bride of John Hummel, a University| vision. Two other passengers, Rob-|0f Tennessee Medical college stu-| ert Lock and Joe Kessler, both 17, dent when he Bangs out his M. D.| were, taken. to Frankfort ospital, Shingle. She hes Fer ow obo Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Baber both Of ‘he 1oW saaries paid sc were killed™instantly when the car Seachers. in . which. they were riding was “Johnny and I would have a struck by a Nickel Plate freight foush time on my teacher's salary train at Gary city limits last night./and his low income in young Vernon Jones, 18, the driver, foray ye Sd “real” ey 2 in critical condition in Gary Meth- | ove me quit. school now.’ odist hospital. Police said the driver became confused and drove on | No Personal Appearances track as signal lights flashed. He| Accordingly, 21-year-old Barbara stopped and tried to get the women [Jo said she planned no personal out of the back seat but the train | |appearances during the next year struck the car. Mrs. Winifred Baber, | Which would take her from Mem37, escgped from the car. phis. However, next Sunday she Driver Arrested will go to Mexico to be guest of honor at the celebration of Mexico's An. Indianapolis woman, Mrs. {Independence day, ‘

And she wants to be the

|for street wear. She doesn't drink| find itself at war” Starr said, lor smoke, She believes the Mar-| Among the winners of the “mil{shall plan should aid needy people. | lion dollar pageant of drums,” an |Memphis political boss Ed Crump |annual event in connection with the 'was “very good"—for Memphis, that|v, P, W. national encampment, held h here last night before -enmed gg Str Jo had the nicest things|25,000 spectators, was the secon to say about the other 53 contest- place taken by the Warren Hen-| In Zillow's vay ant shotants; particularly about Miss Min-|derson post, Terre Haute, Ind, in un - , dimes Inesota, blond Elaine Campbell, of|the junior contest, an pennies. Minneapolis, who was runner-up st N Parker and Enlow are also to be and Miss Canada, Margaret Mar- ADDRESSES CHURCHWOME questioned today by Anderson police shall of Toronto, who was third. Maj. Tom R. arielson o the Bal- in Solnection with Soy Ine ap .ivation army will address e | holdup oe Wis alei Women's Federation of the Suth-| Friday night, State polios we to den, Ala, and Miss California, |erlagd Presbyterian church tomor- question them in connection with Laura Emery, of Salinas, was fifth.irow at 7:30 p. m. at the church. |a series of holdups and burglaries.

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Meanwhile, Enlow drove off in the car towards Logansport. Just out side Walton he was seen by Sheriff Smith. The sheriff turned his automobile around and caught Enlow

| after a two-mile chase.

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Phyllis Bannon, 19, of 1308 Sturm | Barbara Jo, who plans to use her ave, is th fair condition after being firgt prize $5000 scholarship to get a injured in an accident in the 7600 master's degree in modern lanblock of E. Washington st. A car |guages, defty parried the questions driven by her husband, Albert, 20, lot reporters in her first interview went out of control, struck an abut- | as Miss America yesterday. It folment and overturned.- lowed the traditional cooking of Two men riding "a motorcycle Sunday breakfast for photographers. escaped injury when the cycle was| Her five feet, seven inches of girl-

struck by a car operated by William Smithers, 22, of 36 Woodland dr. at Woodland and Raymond sts, yes-

hood carried her 130°. pounds, 35 inch bust and hips and 25 inch

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