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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 81, 1947
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Four Purdue Students Paint ! Up IU, Jailed ||
| May Face Ouster in | Daubing Buildings
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i BLOOMINGTON, Oct. 31 ~—Halloween. pranksters launched the Old Oaken Bucket football rivalry four weeks early today when they smeared Purdue slogans on Indiana University campus buildings. As a result four rueful Purdue students were locked up in the Bloomington jail facing possible; expulsion from school under a re-| cent pact between the schools. The paint brush wielders were | nabbed shortly after midnight by IU students as they daubed the word “Purdue” in large letters on| the steps of the IU library building. i Painted on Building They already had painted “PU over IU” on the front of histori-
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* “MURDER SCENE — Mrs. Mabel Merrifield, 2583 Churchman Ave., died on this day bed in the family living Rn. A knife-wielding assailant is sought by the police. al Bruce buliging and on the] The murderer is believed to have entered from the kitchen to the left atter breaking wien 9 > the mise ation| in the back door. Campus police arrested four who, said their names were Todus Woz-! niak, 21, of Hammond; Harry Bellowski, 24, of Lafayette; B. L. Brickhouse, 20' of Lafayette, and Tom English, 21, of Ft. Wayne. Dean R. C. Shoemaker contacted Purdue officials to determine whether the men had given their right names before releasing them, Warning IU students against re-| *=3 prisal, the dean pointed out an agreement recently was reached between the two schools which pro- . vides expulsion for punishment of! anyone who “defiles property on tithe campus of the other school.” | & The outcropping of rivalry was. about the earliest in : BE ah. The tw schools| from slab wounds in the neck before the traditional annual grid- LYyes.eroey.
iron battle. - : ry re | The e¢limax game between oo Stark Asks Shift two state scheols for the Old Oaken |
Bucket now held by I. U. will be!
staged Nov, 22 here in Memorial 1 Stadium. in ronara Iria
Purdue Students
SCREEN DOOR ~SCREEN UY - gia
BACK DOOR ~ GLASS BROKEN
DAY BE) WHERE 800Y FOUND
VICTIM — Mrs. Merrifield,
football| prominent clubwoman, died
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INTERIOR OF MURDER HOUSE—This artist's sketch shows the interior of the Merrifield home where the gray-haired clubwoman was found dead in a blood-soaked day bed in the dining room. :
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: Attorney Merrifield Finds Wife Slain in Beech Grove Home
Long, Black Hair and Prints of Small Hand Are Clues in Murder of Club Leader A two-pronged search was launched today for a ravenhaired “mystery woman” sought for questioning in the
SCENE OF MURDER—This secluded home at 2583 Church- ‘sleying of Mrs. Mabel Merrifield, prominent clubwoman man Ave. was the scene of the brutal slaying of the prominent 'yagterday.
clubwomen, “All clues point to a woman,” Deputy Sheriff Virgil Quinn said.
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POSSIBLE DEATH WEAPON This butcher knife found in ; ITE the kitchen of the Merrifield home is being tested fo determine if Scientists Check Three Clues ira ho it might have been the instrument used to slash the throat of Mabel | Meanwhile, in police. laboratories technicians worked
Merrifield. 'with three clues—a long strand of black hair, bloody finger- { prints on a telephone book, and a butcher knife—in an . attempt to trace the slayer. =e | The principal clue, however, came from a neighbor and : friend of the murdered woman. Frances Flamag, 124 N. 117th St., Beech Grove, told investigators she saw a black‘haired woman “almost running” from the driveway of the Merrifield home at 1 p. m, yesterday. : The neighbor said she glanced at the house as she drove She
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[saw it was not, She said the woman was about 50 years old, had black hair and was wearing a black topcoat and a brimless hat. 'She was hurrying and glanced over her shouldér several {times, the witness said. The hody of the gray-haired clubwoman was found, her throat slashed, at 4:15 p. m. yesterday on the day bed in the dining room of the Merrifield home, 2583 Churchman Ave.
DISCOVERED BODY==Hugh D. Merrifield, husband of the victim, returned home fo find,
Body Discovered by Husband
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Face Quick Action HX. RUMOIS Prompt |e — i , LAPAYETTR ‘Oct 5i — puree] _TrOSCUlOr's Act U.S. Deports Proxy Film Red Probie University officials today promised! The “hands-and-foot" murder
. , quick action in the case of four case of 25-year-old Howard Pollard, Bride—Kissless, ‘ students identified as Purdue men Indianapolis police character, mn . 1 caught last night painting football not go to trial in Hancock County As H usband Wails aC e y egio rivalry slogans on the Indiana Circuit Court - next Monday as oy University campus, scheduled. | NEW YORK, Oct. 31 (UP)—MailWarning notices were printed in| The trial date will be set aside oor Bride Eileen Frances Green the Exponent, undergraduate daily on a motion for change of venue Hagen was flying back to Great newspaper, this week that Hal- scheduled to be filed in the Hancock gyitain today. Her romance was loween pranksters who invaded the Circuit Court today by Prosecutor'y,..iced—but unbroken.
rival campus faced expulsion. Judson L. Stark. Filing of the motion will require
Resolution Today
Four Murderers Die , tractor. the case to another nearby county
In Gas Chamber [for trial. RALEIGH, N. C, Oct, 31 (UP)—| ‘Fix’ Attempts Reported . . Four murderers—three killers of a| Judge Stark explained that the Immigration officials prevented Mr. |
‘at La Guardia Field last night. for approval.
slayer—died in the gas chamber the result of persistent reports that 800dbY. today in the second mass execution attempts would be made to “fix” the this month, {case during trial before a jury. Two prisoners who killed a guard! “I have completed my investigain a brief escape from a prison tion of these rumors and the findwork gang died together first. ings are strong enough to warrant They were followed immediately my taking the case out of Hancock by their companion in murder and County for trial in another county,” the convicted wife-killer—Lester Mr, Stark said. ‘Stanley, Tarboro. | In Jail 18 Months
eemmtm—— Pollard has been held in jail 18 This Should Make All Ton a ounty | Bran jury. indictment, girl's visa was not in order. She
= . 1 Bathtub Readers Happy charging him with the first degree (oud not be admitted to the United | Final Tally in |
honey!” Mr. Hagen shouted as Mrs. Hagen was hustled in America.”
up the plane's gangplank. ” = n
afternoon: of the Legion's Nationa
and waved frantically at him. He| smericanism Conunission.
waved back. | Then. a customs guard escorted {him from the field before the airplane took off,
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (UP)— murder of Leland Miller, April 16; bur d The patent office had some good 1946. States, the Sureay deel ed.
news today for folks who like to| He is said to have confessed that MR, HMAGEN became interésted Feeney 66°0 J
read in the bathtub. he shot Miller to death during an i, gjleen through a Pen Pal Club It reported that Sydney C. Rea: argument in Indianapolis and took {wo years ago. He married her] : gan of Falls Church, Va., has come the body to a creek bank in Hamil. proxy 62 weeks ago. He had en. Increasing Strength up with a sponge rubber bathtubiton County, where he cut off the only her picture. : ! head-rest, adjustable to “fit any victim's hand and « foot and set fire He saw her for the first time last skull. {to the torso. I week when she arrived here. ImmiNem ———————— | Some of the. reports on the case in gration authorities said her visa Sight Wreckage | Bdncock County involved Sheriff was not in order. Of Alaskan Plane
KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Oct. i : (passage back to Great Britain. Told
(UP)—The wreckage of a Pan- To t Takes Wild ‘that an appeal might drag into American Alr WAYS DC-4 transport—! weeks of waiting, he said:
missing since Sunday with 18 per- 1 “I won't have her stagnatin ting, sons aboard—was sighted today. Motorcycle Ride he said, “under the terrible condi- The latter days of the balloting It was located on the north side. DETROIT, Qct. 31 (UP)—Fifteen- tions on Ellis Island.” Wemmer, who climbed from a low of" Tongass mountain less
than month-old Patrick Hurd took a ra 4.8 seven miles from a landing field motorcycle xide on one of Detroit's
THE COMPLETE Time gave Al Feeney, Democrat, cast. William H. Wemmer, 34 per cent,
The final percentages were t the first day of the poll. Mr. Fee
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HE HOPED his bride could come| HERE ARE the complete resu main thoroughfares, but entirely by hack to him next year. She may accident. again apply for a visa then, Reviv Patrick was in the arm's of his “Maybe she'll change her mind,| es ’ mother, Mrs. Persella Hurd, 21, when {hough,” he said disconsolately, |
& For Al Feeney, Democrat .......
Straight Democrat Votes .......
War Crimes Fight {she was hit by the motorcycle while Straight Republican Votes ......
YLUSHING, N. Y., Oct 31 (UP) crossing the street. Little Patrick ‘ | The Soviet bloc today revived the sailed out of her arms into the lap $150,000 Paper Fire | Democrats for Republican Wemm East-West, fight over European war of the motorcycle driver. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 31 (UP)—| Ne Party Preference Indicated . criminals on the floor of the United. Driver Neil Hires, 21, juggled his A $150,000 five-alarm fire swept a “no. Nations General Assembly, burden like a hot potato while the large five-story waste paper wareIt charged that the western cycle careened all over the street. house in Central City last nigh eountries are harboring “war crim- They landed in a heap on the pave- It ignited two near-by buildings inals, traitors and Quislings” in vio. ment, unhurt, before it was brought under control. lation of United Nations agreements. m0
Irvington to Get Soaped
paigns on both sides reach a clima
WHOLESALE BUTTER UP
Committee Due to OK ters, the
A resolution indorsing “the pur- with a soft cloth, pose and conduct of the present She is the pretty 21-year-old wife jnyestigation of communistic activ- to soap or wax the windows, and! | Judge John B. Hinchman to send °f Berney Hagen, Montana €on- jties in the movie industry” Was easy to get the markings off. to be placed before the -Legion's She was hustled aboard a plane National Executive Committee today yoy can remove wax crayon and
4 . . Al.| The resolution also will carry the sene or turpentine. Then wash the prison camp guard and one wife- change of venue was necessary as Hagen from even kissing his wife | .ocommendation that Congress pass window with hot water, {legislation to “combat communism re -;
wherever and whenever it appears Deeds of Presidents
’ The sesulition was So. ve sllered 240-acre plot of land that changed’ SHE hurried to a glass porthole lowing 8 annua, - repor ” hands in Franklin County yester-!
Past National Commander Paul H. GrimMith was to report today to
months without bond on a Marion Philadelphia ruled yesterday the The Times Straw Vole
Noted as Campaigns Reach Climax ' By ART WRIGHT
» cent, reaching his peak on the fifth day of the 11-day Straw Vote. prants by promising rain ‘for er ‘was a4 Woman.
| For William H. Wemmer, Republican ......... PRR 34.0% |
” THE TIMES STRAW VOTE is NOT a prediction of the outcome of ¢. Tuesday's election. Each ballot read; “If I were voting today, I would 0.0 meter touch 80 degrees or Merrifield at his law office whic mark my official ballot as follows”: As the balloting was done by mail, the Straw Vote could nob po Lining frost in Indianapolis. former Mayor of Indianapolis. reflect possible changes in sentiment during the final days as the cam- Light frosts occured earlier ‘n thie
| Experience in Straw Votes shows that fewer volers cross Party, weatherman Miller would not and caught the 3:52 p. m. Beech |lines on election day than in sampling polls. Many volers who would comment on November.
5 wife dead. .. ..
It was discovered by her husband, Hugh D. Mertifield, Indianapolis attorney and former assistant Indiana attorney general. He hurried home when he became alarmed over his wife's failure to answer the telephone. Blood from a slashed artery had soaked the bed. In her right hand the dead woman clutched a bus token ang two cents and the long strand of hair. She had apparently been struck in the mouth by her assailant. The blow had knocked out a lower plate, found on the bed, and the lower lip was cut by upper teeth, Her slayer apparently gained entry by cutting a screen ‘door in the kitchen, then broke a glass pane in the kitchen door after failing to break the bolt. Slaying Reconstructed by Deputy Here is how Deputy Sheriff Virgil Quinn reconstructed the slaying today: Mrs. Merrifield apparently was ready to leave her home, having her token and transfer money in her hand. She had planned to visit her daughter, Mrs. Ruth Foster, 1129 N, Alabama St., in the afternoon to stay with her 3-year-old grandson, Lying next to her was a bunch of freshly cut marigolds, which she had apparently cut from her yard to take to the daughter,
police laboratories, Police be- The. Merrifield home is Jocated lieve they may point a trail to After striking Mrs. Merri-|;, 21 isolated section, The nearest
» " : " ‘ { . Poll Gives a "mystery woman" being field and slashing her throat home is more than a block away. sought for questioning.
Of. lr " \with a sharp instrument, the Dene busines surround the Bouse, —_— ; r. an rs. Merrifie ave Wemmer 34 /o in’ slayer apparently used the lived. alone since the marriage of . ain 4Se | telephone. | their children. Besides the daughfor GOP Candidate I Prints Smaller Than Man's | ter, they have a son, John R. Merrifield, who lives in Cincinnati.
| w . A telephone directory which shows Goblins Toni ht faint pinkish finger rints is bein Orly other survivor is a sister, Mrs, " id : ® Rachel R. Ross, Indianapolis. J
[tested in the laboratory. Deputy LOCAL TEMPERATURES = quinn said it looked as if the slayer Active in Club Work
Needn’t Irk You
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (UP)—! If you want to guard your windows tonight against Halloween prank-| National Bureau of) Standards suggests rubbing 7aseline| lor lubricating oil over the glass
This makes it hard for pranksters
If you don't coat your windows, §
candle marks with gasoline, kero-|
OZARK, Ark, Oct. 31 (UP)—A
I day had among the signatures of | past owners on the deeds the names * of Presidents James K. Polk, Franklin Pierce and James Bu- ) chanan.
PRINTS OF SLAYER?—Faint | pinkish prints on this telephone directory are being tested in
s Stray, Vote for Mayor today
66 per cent of all the ballots am ree u p au res i had hurriedly rinsed the blood off| Mrs, Merrifield was a native of Republican nominee, received, ga m.....52 12 (Noon). . ps his of her hands, then used the the- Michigan but had lived here most am. 55 Lom po I A of her life. An active clubwoman, “re % bans He said the size of the prints, she was first vice president of the
he same as the votes tabulated on| he weatherman painted a poor #IMOst too small to be a man’s, adds Seventh District, Indiana Federation ney fluctuated between 66 and 70 Per weather picture for Halloween ccle- Weight to the theory that the slay- of Clubs, past president of the Mon-~ He also said the day Club and president of the Ine long black hair found in the dead dianapolis Council of Women for
showed increasing strength for Mr. tonight, woman's hand was “very fine” and five years, .
of 30 per cent to 34 per cent, Although he didn't make a aon definite statement as to the neces- Probably that of a woman, { She was also an ardent church Its of the 11 days: [sity of a raincoat tomorrow, the Deputy Quinn said he could find oorker, belonging to Beech Grove Final |g ootherman declared there was risk NO motive, other than robbery. The preihaqist Church and the Woman's
cis iin rsa naar ss area. 66.0% lof showers about kick-off time. victim's change purse, which con- Society of Christian’ Service, Her * | With the end of the month, tained only about $5, is missing. ,iher amliations included membergad asanaruanhase duns tors exey aay 333% Weatherman Paul Miller reported The first note of alarm was felt ship in the Aftermath Club, Zaeacr akinsaan sera A SL ORY ss 21.5% [this October the hottest in 'us- by Mrs, Merrifieid’s daughter at \..0 lub, and Indiana Historical Republicans for Democrat Feeney ........ccooivrernsnersanianss 2% tory. The average daily temperatures about 3 p.m. Mrs Foster had been! ae nei), ' [EP TPR EER ERE LE 49% was 64 compared to an average of waiting for her mother to arrive ; senece veereisniiinninieionnans 23% gy sot in Ro Normal Te at and besame worried when she re- Mr. and Mrs, Merrifield were
: married in 1907, yn temperature for October is 36. ceived no answers to repeated r 1
Eleven days in October saw the phone calls. She finally ealled Mr. Mr. Merrifield was born in 1879 in nh Newton County and lived on a farm
there until 1893. He worked as a [laborer and as superinténdent on {contract bridge and romd construcod tion after graduating from Logansport High School until he entered law school.
better. And-so far there has been he shares with Reginald Sullivan,
Leaves for Home
Xx. month, Mr. Merrifield also became alarm
Grove bus from downtown, arriv-
NEW YORK, Oct. 31 (UP)~Top » o Cl F |“scrateh” on a straw poll vote straight party tickets on voting machines.| «rq no " | Met at U. of Michigan | | t stick my neck out,” he ing home about. 4:15. grade wholesale butter advanced to —All in Goo ean un | To check the trend of voters crossing party lines, The Times ballot 5444 He said he stepped into the liv-| He was graduated from the Uni79 cents a pound today. contained this clause: “I usually vote Republican...... Democrat... ... | ———————— ling room, then looked toward the versity of Michigan law college in
Soap applied in the right places never hurt a youngster or anyone Times Index else. And on Halloween night & bar of soap may pay dividends. That's the theory Irvington businessmen took last year and Amusements. 27 Ruth Millett.. 25 again, this vear with their Halloween window “soaping” contest, parade 18.2 per cent. Democrats who sa Eddie Ash.... 30 Movies ...... 27 and other activities, amounted to 3.5 per cent,
| (Check one).”
Republicans who said they would vote for Mr. Feeney numbered
1903, meeting his wife while attending there, He came to Indianapolis to begin his law practice, Serving in World War I, he came back here and re-established his
Fugitive Tries to See [dining room and saw his wife on g the day bed. Stepping closer he
id they would vote for Mr. Wemmer Girl, Goes Back fo Jail saw the pools of blood surrounding | KALAMAZOO, Mich, Oct. 31 her, he said, I (UP)—An attempt to visit his girl He then called Dr. J. C. Rhea,
y 11d ’ & . ~ ~ » ~ LJ » iv A da. 34 x Rng gy - Li Sronstied a J Bitinesumen League, the Ame Tian IF THE “usually Republican” votes credited to Mr. Feeney were friend resulted in the arrest of whose office is a short distance practice and was assistant attorney En TE Or On aE kr wheaund, Judges 1or the parade, sssigned|stst for Mr. Wemmer, and the Usually Democrat” yotes for Mr. Wem- ol," oy" 19-year-old fugitive away. Dr. Rhea ca d found Seneral in 1930-32. He is a former Crossword ... 33 Pattern = 26 was at ho igi sclieduied, by Er J. Mi 2 president of mer were cast for Mr. Feeney, the final percentages would be: fron the Cviakly “Wis jail § ¥ Merrifield bog _— called member of the faculty of Indiana ens 90 FALLCIRL coves e . ! C 4 » | J ’ 8. . 2 Editorials. ,.. 22 Radio ....... 39 be completed by 5:30 p. m. The the business association, are Joseph | Feeney ......oevcircnvanesnsnatene 513 per cent | ‘Police said the youth was recap- the Marion County Sherifl's office. 1% Schiog) ov . oe president Wemmer ..........ooovivinannvans 48.7 per cent tured here in a stolen car parked Mrs. Merfificld was last seen alive 20 rector. 0 1zens
vvess 22 Scherrer ..... 22 costume parade ‘will start at 7:30 O. Hoffmann, Juvenile Court judge;
Gardening ... 23 Side Glances. 22 from Audubon Circle and will move Mrs. Earl Stumpf, president of the A total of 23.3 per cent of
The poll has béen conducted
Mrs. Manners 17 Women's ..25-26 and Corbin Patrick of the Star and ning at a get-together .in the 300, by The Times
Markets ..... 20 Word-A-Day. 21iTed Young of the News. iblock on E. Washington St.
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Inside Indpls.. 21| Weather Map 6 Times’ “Inside Indianapolis” column will be distributed later in the eve- cross section used in previous Times Straw Votes,
Bank, Beech Grove.
Willian: live , | illiam Black, 15, who lives Servicks: sre. planned at
the straw voters indicated no party pear the girl's home. by
Meta Given., 23 Society ...... 24 on the Irvington side: streets and. Indiana Parent-Teacher Association preference. Such a block of independent voters would be able to swing| Officers said. Raith escaped from nearby, She was in the front yard ha tt \ Hollywood ,.. 21|Sports .....30-31 Washington St. and a representative from Mayor an election either way. ithe Wisconsin jail, where he was walking toward a bus stop, he said, '% Buchanan moruary, Homemaking. 23 Stranahan ... 31] Judges for the soaping con'est Denny's office. : | The cross section used in the Straw Vote was the city directory, being held on charges including’ At 3:30 p. m. His brother, Howard, mal bel re , Don Hoover.. 22 Teen T lk ... 26 will be, Ed Bovola, who writes The Window design amd parade awards with names selected at regularly spaced intervals. This is the same Army. desertion, when Cudahy au- 10, said he went up on the porch Win No Petice Prize
|therities, who had misjudged nis and saw the woman lving on the strictly as a public service enterprise age, placed him in an unbarred, ‘juvenile deteption ward, 'alaeping. '
: a " the Society of Friends.
[thought at first it was Mrs. Merrifield but on second look °
OSLO. Oct. 31 (UP)—The Nobel bed. He'sald he thought she “was Peace Prize was warded tonight
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