Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 October 1947 — Page 1
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58th Y®AR—NUMBER 182
THURSDAY, OCTOBER
9, 1947
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N Crawfordsville Jury Digs Into Bribe’ Charges
Accusations Rival [ A Mystery Thriller
! By ROBERT BLOEM CRAWFORDSVILLE, Oct. 9.—A y + Montgomery County grand jury was trying to unravel a tangle of bribery accusations containing practically all the elemen of a mystery thriller. Although the case initially in-
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] volved only a $275 bad check given 8 Montgomery County farmer for 3 two cattle, it already has led to
one hearing on a charge of criminal contempt of court and has a state trooper and possibly the state police board in hot water. ' Actually, Circuit Judge Howard Sommer charged the grand jury Monday simply with finding out which of two sworn statements in the criminal contempt proceedings is true and which false. To get the answer they'll have to sort out evidence of a barnyard rendezvous in the night, blinking light “signals,” and a “big deal” that never came off. On the sideline will be the problem of a recently demoted state trooper who became enmeshed in the cross-current of accusations, who thought he was suspended because of his involvement but in fact remains on duty while the police hoard continues a two-month-old debate on what to do about it. Youth Back in Reformatory The investigation got . started when Leo Bennett, son of a Bloomington contractor, was charged with taking property under false pretenses in the cow transaction with Thomas Chapman, Whites ¥ill# farmer. The youth, a parolee from the state reformatory, also was charged with automobile banditry and was returned to the reformatory by his parole officer. In July, Edward Bennett, father of the arrefted youth, made good the $275. According to a sworn statement made by Mr. Chapman, he and the elder Mr. Bennett also discussed at that time possible payment for five days’ work Mr. Chapman lost on his sideline railroad
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Arresting officer and main state police figure in the case was Ernest Richardsar of nearby Lebanon, one of the oldest officers on the force from the standpoint of service
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Rumor $2000 Offered Next development came, according to sworn statements, when Mr. Bennett told top ranking state police officials he had been told Mr. Chapman and Mr. Richardson, star witnesses, would consider calling the whole thing off for $2000. Mr. Richardson and Mr. Chapman supported each other’s denials that any bribe ever had been solicited by them. According to the top police officers in Indianapolis, they obtained further evidence indicating that some sort of “deal” was afoot. They agreed to close in on a rendezvous, arranged by telephone by Mr. Bennett, and scheduled to take place at the Chapman farm the night of July 31. Four officers, Maj. Robert O'Neal, executive officer; Capt. John Barton of the detective staff, Staff Capt. Kermit Lewis and Field Capt. Robert N. Bush, moved in on the meeting of Mr, Bennett, Mr, Chapman and Trooper Richardson in a matter of minutes after it started. Chapman Denies Statement In their official report, the officers say Mr. Chapman admitted to them during questioning that a deal was under consideration. In a later statement, Mr. Chapman denied any such statement. He contended that beyond payment for the cattle and. for the time lost, Mr. Bennett did all the talking about money. Trooper Richardson was ordered to Indianapolis to report to- Supt. Robert Rossow. He.later stated he obtained the impression during that meeting that he was to be suspended, but the suspension never came off. In Indianapolis today, Col. Rossow sald no charges had been filed against Mr. Richardson in connec-
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5 Pct. Rent Increase OK'd for Louisville
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (U, P)— Rent Director Frank Creedon today approved a 5 per cent rent boost for Louisville, Ky., landlords. in the first action of its kind under the
of the board. The Louisville board, composed of two realtors, two lawyers and a banker, made its recommendation i two days after Mr. Creedon, in re- { sponse to protests that the board was not representative, asked Governor Simeon Willis to name extrs . members to represent tenants.
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es El U. §. Jet Missile Flies 1500 MPH, Drops Into Sea
Ww. { , Oct. § (UP)— The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics said today that a wingless ram jet missile developed a speed of more than-1500 miles an hour in a recent test off the Virginia coast. - The missile, launched from a B-20, was pilotless. It followed a pre-determined course and then dropped into the sea. M. B. Ames, chief of the NACA aerodynamics research branch, said the next step will be to provide missle with an auto-pilot mechanism which canbe controlled remotely from an airplane or a land base.
“ sr» THE NACA does not at the moment have any plans. for piloted aircraft powered with a ram jet engine, Mr. Ames said. However, the Air Force is now experimenting at Muroe, Cal, with the X8-1, a rocket propelled plane designed to reach speeds up to 1700 miles an hour. The Air Force said it may make supersonic speed tests with the highly secret X8-1. Mr. Ames said the missile which went faster than 1500 miles an hour is the same ram jet which was announced about a year ago. It has figured prominently in naval air research. work,
¥ ” » A RAM JET engine, called the flying stove pipe, uses the same principle of physics that causes a strong draft of air in a stove pipe when there is a good hot fire, The ram jet operaites best at speeds greater than that- of seund and must be launched from an airplane or with auxiliary rocket devices. The navy described the “stovepipe” as neither a plang nor a missile but a flying engine. It possesses stabilizing fins but no wings.
Gunman Is Felled In Aisle of Church
Shot While Holding
Minister as Hostage FINDLAY, O, Oct. 8 (UP)~A trolman felled a gunman in the aisle of .a church here today as he struggled with a minister he was holding as a hostage. The gunman, identified by police as Leonard Johnson, 27, of Detroit, was taken to a Findlay hospital with two bullet wounds in the back. Police Chief Leo McKinley Larkins said the gunman held .the Rev. John Knox at gunpoint in his church for more than an hour. All the time, patrolmen and police were trying to argue him into surrendering. Threatened to Kill Minister “He threatened to kill the minister if we tried to use tear gas” the chief said, “and demanded we get him a car and let him drive away with the Rey. Mr. Knox.” Highway Patrolman R. C. Vanderveen finally crawled through a side window of the church, crept on hands and knees between the pews, and fired two shots into Johnson's back as the gunman struggled with the minister. The Rev. Mr, Knox was unhurt, “He toppled right on top of me in the aisle,” the Protestant Episcopal minister said. Acting ‘Suspiciously’ Police said Johnson was one of two strangers who were brought to police headquarters after several persons reported they were trying to sell an automobile tire and were acting suspiciously. Johnson pulled a gun on Poljge
fled down an alley to the church, two blocks away.
Typhoon Cuts Off Iwo; U. S. Troops in Storm
TOKYO, Oct. 8 (UP)—A 140-mile-an-hour typhoon has cut off communications between Japan proper and Iwo Jima where a gar-
that the island had been hit hard by the storm.
———————————————————————— BRAZIL'S FIRST LADY DIES RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazl, Oct. 9 (U. P.) ~Mrs. Carmela Dutra, wife of President Eurico Gaspar Dutra, died early today of appendicitis. She was 63.
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U. 8. delegates pressed the United Nations General Assembly to ,re-
On the merits of the case and the evidence available, a large number of the members of the 57-na-
most the
Hint Chickens May Come Off Save-Food List
Distillers Agree To 60-Day Shutdown
WASHINGTON. Oct. 9 (UP) Agriculture Department officials are considering the advisability of asking the Citizens Food Committee to take chicken off the food-saving list, it was learned today. One official, who asked that his name not be used, said a final decision on any such recommendation will be made only after a “thorough {review” of the amount of chicken |in cold storage over the nation. “Bven if we do find that cold storage supplies are sufficient, we wouldn't want to make such a rec{ommendation if we thought it would hurt the food drive,” he said. The official said he did not know whether such a recommendation would be broadened to include eggs and other fowl such as turkey, But he said he “guessed” that it would not. : If cold storage holdings of chicken are found to be relatively high, it might be an aid to the food drive. Large reserves of cold story age chicken might discourage farmers from feeding live chickens, thus saving grain. Agree to Whisky “Holiday” The food committee, meanwhile, chalked up a tactical victory over whisky makers. A sizeable bloc of the nation's distillers agreed to a 60-day liquor-making holiday. The others were expected to follow suit Committee Chairman Charles Luckman said 18 of the 39 distillers who met with him late yesterday had agreed to a complete 60-day “holiday” on the production of both beverage and industrial alcohol. He predicted that the entire industry would be closed down within three weeks. : 3 To Save Much Grain The food chief said the whisky shutdown should save between 10 million and 20 million bushels of grain. In addition, he said, the distillers agreed to turn over to the government any grain stocks now on hand or on order. Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson said earlier that the “holiday” should have no effect on whisky supplies. He said the distillers have enough liguor-en hand for six years as compared with a normal four-year inventory. Mr. Luckman said last night's action does not effect beer manufacturers. They are meeting at Chicago tomorrow to see how they can help in the food drive. But he in|dicated that they will not be asked to close down completely.
Campaign Gets Test Meanwhile, food drive officials| looked to today’s poultryless, eggless menu to provide the first real, test of the food conservation pro- | gram on the household, restaurant {and hotel dining room level. { They said Mr. Truman's request | for two days of self-sacrifice came too quick for many housewives and | public eating places to change their {menus for meatless Tuesday. But |by now, everyone should be famil|iar with the program. [ Mr. Anderson said the United States must “break down” Russia’s political and economic wall across central Europe or resign itself to feeding the western European democracies for a long time to eome. a
Fire Chief Fulmer Says—
As a rule the housewife is a good housekeeper. She keeps things neat and tidy. It's the man of the house om we Or the children
oily rags, cardboard and broken furniture accumulate, DURING FIRE PREVENTION WEEK REMOVE ALL FLAMMABLE MATERIALS FROM YOUR BASEMENT, ATTIC, GARAGE OOMB.” DON'T
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Good News for Hubby
LONDON, Oct. 9 (UP)—8ir Walter Savage, British expert on bacteriological diseases, told & health conference today that washed dishes should be left to dry--instead of being wiped—as a method of pre-
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Hold 9 Suspects In Assault ase
Detective Force * Intensifies Hunt
The entire city detective ‘force was on 24-hour assignment to solve a brutal kidnap-assault of an 18-year-old South Side girl ag ‘the ninth suspect was placed under arrest this morning. Inspector Jesse McMurtry emphasized that not all the men under arrest dre believed to have been involved in the crime, but he said “at least four” may be among the ones wanted. Two others, police indisated, may have left town. { “We're going to solve this case and we're on the right road,” the detective chief said. Arrested Early Today Arrested at 6 a, m. today was Stewart Derrickson, 21, of 610 W. 27th St. He was placed under $10,000 bond on a vagrancy charge. Placed under arrest yesterday, also on vagrancy charges, were two brothers, Robert, 19, and Donald Norris Peck, 20, of 802 W. 37th St. under $3000 bond, and Nathanial Johnson, 835 Roach St, $10,000 bond. Johnson and Donald Peck had come in voluntarily, Placed under arrest Tuesday only | a few hours after the brutal attack on the young factory worker short-
Thomas. Ly Gardner, 23, and Willam Smith, 25, both of 624 Udell St., each held on vagrancy unHer $10,000 bond. : Later Tuesday, detectives arrested Robert L. Anderson, 26, of 2348 N. Arsenal Ave.: Robert Warner, 30, of | 710 8. Illinojs St., and Robert T.
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Life Can Be Sweeter
in America During 1947 WASHINGTON, Oct. § (U, P).~
Each person in the U. 8. esn eon- [Hon
sume 20. pounds more sugar this year than he did in 1046, according to the Agriculture Department, In » report on the world sugar situation, the department said U. 8, supplies would provide sbout #5 pounds per person for 1047, Last
venting disease.
U. S. Demands a UN Vote of ‘Guilty’ For Soviet Aggression in Balkans
If the issue is decided on that basis, the United States’ probably will fail to attain the necessary two-thirds support needed to sustain the charge in a plenary session. But the issue may be decided on different grounds. The Soviet and Yugoslav delegates have turned the meetings of the last two days into pandemonium with thelr reckless charges of “liar,” “coward,” “war~ monger,” * and the Uke. Never in the history of diplomacy have the representatives of nations ever tossed such insults at each other in public. io The result may be that some of
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placing all the blame for Greek disorders on Greece’s northern neigh- | bors may decide to do so as a punitive measure for tactics they have vehemently - denounced. The assembly's political and security committee neared the end of its two-week debate on Greece which has been climaxed by two days of unprecedented rowdyism, | After three hours of exchanges of invective, the committee voted late yesterday over strenuous Soviet opposition to ereate a semi-perma.- | nent Balkan “watchdog” commission, responsible to the assembly. The was 34 to 6 with nine abstentions and eight mations re-|
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| Heard From 3 Missing. 13 Days at Sea
Minesweeper, but No irst Message
HONOLULU, Oct. 9 (UP)—A search plane has picked up a faint
message from three seamen lost in
mid-Pacific aboard a group of mine-
sweepers in the first word heard from the missing men in 13 days, the
Hawaiian Sea Frontier announced today. One of a group of planes searching an arc 600 miles east and north-
east of tiny Palmyra Island reporte make a radio bearing However, searchers were unable to fix the position from which the message was sent, HSP said. The men, all crew members of the seagoing tug Edward Grimm, are William B. Hopkins, radio operator, Washington, D. C, and Seamen Leonard Metts and Winston H. Croshy, Island, 8. C. All three volunteered Sept. 24 to stay with a tow of four minesweepers which the Grimm was taking from Manzanillo, Tex., to Manila, when their tug was forced to proceed without them in order to conserve fuel.
The last message from the mine- | Johnston Island was placed on a|was that it appeared to be a sweepers was heard two days later, | 24-hour alert. If another call should | model Ford.
The men do not have earphones and are unable to receive messages.
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d the message. It asked rescuers to
was clear but faint, officials here reported. The sender identified himself with the call letters of the tug, HPVB-1, on the 16800 kilocycle band. Immediately afterward the meg sage sent a series of MO signals— {which in international code means “Take a bearing on me.” Then came a CQ, meaning “calling anybody,”
20 minutes.” The plane's radio operator stood
{was heard. Direction-finding equipment at
|be received, it can be pinpointed |immediately, HSP said.
by for Beveral hours after the orig-| inal message was received shortly] Arthur Ober, 26, Chicago, Grivel one time were allowed to pass before noon but no further signal|of the stalled truck, who witnessed (1rough the intersection. Those on | |the accident, said all he could de-|igt1 St. when given the go sign by | the police could made it- through |
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Bottlenecks Being Broken
Officers Replace Stop Signals in Rush
By LOUIS ARMSTRONG From a policeman’s point
of view we motorists are a great big headache.
I know because yesterday
this reporter and Tim Tim-
merman, Times staff photographer, went out on the streets with members of the police traffic
department and see the long files
of automobiles as officers see them. Principal factors against us
ONE: We all try to leave the downtown area at the same time in the afternoon. TWO: We think we should be able to drive straight home without stopping. ¥ THREE: We don't obey parking
motorists are:
poor drivers or use poor judgment while driving. 3
speed us quickly an after work, is taking near North Side, the which the heaviest traffic flows the 5 o'clock closing
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Tossed 15 Feet
In Air by Auto
Deputy sheriffs worked on slim clues today in search of a hit-and-run driver who struck and critically {injured William J. Thompson, 43, of 739 Ingomar Ave, 40, east of Irvington, last night. | Mr. Thompson had driven to the 7400 block in E. Washington St. about 11 p. m, to repair a stalled truck. Just after he stepped out! of his car, a speeding motorist clipped the fender of his automobile and struck him. The victim was tossed 15 feet into {the air by the hit-run car which]
speed and disappeared before witnesses got a description of the car. Repair Gasoline Line
{termine about the hit-and-run car late
Mr. Thompson, employed as a {mechanic at the Blue & White
Bince then their transmitter bat- | Today's message was the first/Service, 2500 Kessler. Blvd, had teries have been presumed to be | tangible result of the intensivelanswered a call from the trucker
dead.
The minesweepers were cut loose to have had at least a 10-day sup-|
160 miles northeast of Palmyra, and
(search, The men were believed
ply of food and water. Frequent
Ito repair a broken gasoline line. | He was taken to Methodist Hos- | pital. He suffered a fractured
the tug was unable to relocate them rains have assured them an ample|skull, a broken leg and numerous
after refueling. The message, received yesterday by one of two. air force and six Navy patrol planes in the search
{supply of water, {they probably {definite period | the ocean.
could ‘live an Inon fish caught in
Death Interrupts Padway’s Speech
By CHARLES H. HERROLD United Press Staff Correspondent BAN FRANCISCO, Oct, §.—~They may finish Joe Padway's last speech today before the AFL's 66th conven.
Some one of the 700 delegates will have to put the unfinished part into the record because death halted the suave, fiery little AFL general counsel] yesterday in the middle of it. When they get down to the last paragraph of the 21 pages devoted prineipally to a denunciation of the Taft-Hartley act, they will find Mr. Padway was still fighting—as he had all his life—against “slavery” for workers, “If this act is to be construed that one man may quit his job and
ibe free from violation of the act,
but if two agree to do the same thing they might be punished, then it certainly violates the 13th amendment and re-establishes slavery in this country,” he’ had written. Battled 35 Years That was Mr, Padway's valedictory. He was in the midst of the speech when he was felled by a stroke. His 36-year legal career in organized labor was a continuous fight against “involuntary servitude.” He argued the point in defense of John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers (AFL), when Federal Judge Alan T. Golds-
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TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER VISITS , HOLLYWOOD
® When Ligyd B. Walton, Times staff photographer, visited Hollywood recently he found the lens had turned.
® Instead of snapping other folks’ pictures he faced the studio cameras,
® All of which provides an interesting picture story in today's Times.
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reported as critical. Motorcycle Officer Maurice Fischler, 27, of 527 8. Arlington Ave. was badly injured last night ‘when his police cycle collided with a’ car driven by William Loetis, 24, of
ala Pleasant St.
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Nobody Tried
| DETROIT, Oct, 9 (UP)-—Horri-
{fled National Bank officials found
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of stealing highly secret photo. graphic data from the Los Alamos atom bomb project. "The men, Georoge Wellington Thompson, 42, Riverside, N. M., and Ernest Lawrence Paporello,.29; Al-
Los Alamos during the war. said that both men were arraigned \yesterday.
” » » THE Federal Bureau of Investigation said the alleged thefts oc-
charge of all security measures coni-| Commissioner Mowrey until Monnected with the laboratory. (day, but he also was held under Therefore, Paporello and Thomp- of $10,000. : ! . 4 JU ORR ¢
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from a government agency. After! {was brought to Santa ¥e, where he| was held under $10,000 bond. Paporello faced similar charges, but did not enter a plea when he
curred before the Atomic Energy appeared at Albuquerque before against economic collapse. Act went into effect. It was during U.S, Commissioner Owen J. Mow-, sold | the time they Army was still in full rey. His hearing was postponed by the U. 8. for dollars on
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Replace Traffic Signs The stop and go signs at the intersections are turned out and the police take over. At 16th St. and Capitol Ave. last evening Officer Harry Nolte was in command of the intersection. He was assisted by a new “no left turn” sign. At 4:55 traffic was rapidly building up to h peak. Officer Nolte let traffic flow for a
followed by the terse message “wait kept on eastward at a high rate of while on Capitol, then let motorists
on 16th St. through. The big advantage of the officer on the corner was that more cars at
several intersections before having
{to stop. If the lights had been
working they woud most likely have had to stop for each one. At 5:08 the big rush hit the intersection. Streams of cars and busses were coming from the south and west. . Officer Nolte had his hands full. He would stop Capitol Ave. traf-
officials believe, and|other injuries. His condition was fic to let 16th St. have the right-
of-way and two lanes -of cars would bufld ‘up to the south for blocks. Then he would cut them |loose and away they would go zooming north. D Peak at 5:15 P. M. At 5:15, the peak, 78 cars on Capitol Ave. went north through the .intersection. (St. had to wait a minute and onehalf but then they were given a long run. At 5:17 traffic began to thin out 50 we hustled up to Capitol Ave, and Fall Creek Blvd. There the | peak was just hitting officer Omer Lloyd on his corner. His job was more difficult since {it is a flve-way intersection and {he was allowing left turns, But he had matters under control
Here again motorists had to stop |and wait a bit longer but then they
all got through the intersection. The stop and go signal would have made them inch through the cross ing a few at a time. At one time 10 cars lined up on
~Two former Army photographers ernment property-—carrying a max-| Fall Creek Blvd. waiting to make were held today on federal charges|imum sentence of five years im-|® 16ft turn north in Capitol Ave,
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$80 Million in Gold:
Sold by Britain =
buquerque, N. M., were stationed atthe charge of stealing government, LONDON, Oct. 9 (U. P).—Au-
thoritative sources said today that
U. B. Attorney Everett Grantham second count — removing records Britain had sold $80 million more
of its gold reserve to the United
before United States commissioners his arraignment at Los Alamos, he States to replenish its dwindling
supply of dollars.
It was the second time in thes’ weeks that Britain had dipped into
its gold reserve, the last defense $80 million worth of
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