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

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Afternoon Rush to Polls Increases 3| As Plants and Offices Close ! By NOBLE REED Ah A speed-up in balloting at noon today indicated that a ‘heavier-than-normal vote will be cast in the municipal elee~ ‘tion before the polls close at™6 p. m. : A spmi#¥ in voting started about9 a. m, after early reports showed light balloting during the first three hours. A heavy surge of balloting was expected to begin about + 3 p. m. following the close of all larger industrial plants at 4 2 p.m. to give employees plenty of time to get to the polls, Also the polls are expected to be jammed with voting be-

Farm Truck, : Kills Driver #

Accident: Occurs at | ~ Guion Road Crossing Omar F. Isenhour, 66, R. R. 1, New Augusta, was killed today as he drove his truck in the path of the crack New York Central passenger train| “The Riley.” : | The accident occurred on. the| nosth crossing of the Big Four | 4 tracks and Guion Road. The one and a half ton truck was dragged| #8 more than 100 feet by the impact) | of the speeding train. Mr. Isenhour had just left the} home of Raymond Hollingsworth, | § a neighbor, in search of someone to bail the hay he had stored in! § his barn. . | § State Police Officer Ancil Pruitt

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investigating the accident said po-| lice had been unable to decide whether Mr. Isenhour failed to| hear the train or whether mechani- |} cal fajlure of the truck had been | the cause of the accident. | i » Body Thrown Clear | SER | The impact shredded parts of the SiS ; truck. « 3 Mr. Isenhour’'s body was thrown | glear of the cab. { Deputy Sheriff Lenville Foster said Mr. Isenhour apparently was killed | instantly. pas . The train took ‘more than a half] mile in which to stop. Crewmen| aboard were H. A. Francisco, engi-! neer, and George Marriott, conduc- |

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Frank T. Off and Mrs. tor, both of Indianapolis. shales i " IR $ | : | i 3 Survivors of the victim are his ME". TH 8 o£ » up considerably after 9 a. m, i wife, Mrs. Zella Isenhour, and two S5. 0 0 S in d g Republican), headquarters = ah- { daughters. : nounced an, Be today that its ; ; l } : {check of votes cast in 200 precincts 4 2d Accident Fatal I ‘96 Municipalities this moming totaled 15308 Repub. . : : ¥ y ican voters an : Democratic To Injured Rail Agent : |' Elect Officials and “doubtful” voters. This tabu | Times State Service | fod By ROBERT BLOEM {lation was compiled on less than MARTINSVILLE, Nov. 4—Paul H.| Hundreds ‘of - thousands of Hoo- two-thirds the total number of pres Burgett, who returned to his Joa, siers headed for the polls under cincts. as Pennsylvania Jeiieond assent ore} ] threatening skies today for the final Four Machines Jammed : only last-Saturday after a y-ol | payoff in 96 hard-fought city elee- Only four voting mathines out of =H

of eight months while ‘recovering from automobile accident injuries, was killed instantly in‘a traffic mis- | hap today. He was 51, a Mr, ‘Burgett’s automobile sideswiped a car driven by Gilbert Gilman, Martinsville, RR 3, on the Blue Bluff Road three miles north of

an embankment. He was dead when aid arrived. : :

Music {and Cash) Soothe

Sentimental Bandit J BALTIMORE, Nov. 4 (UP)—Mrs. | Henrietta Palkenstine has. met a man who loves music (free) and money (other people's) in that

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READY FOR ‘LUNCH— All voting completed, Mrs. Roberts put election officials to work in the kitchen preparing the noon meal. "If they are going to eat, they are going to work," she said. They | - even whipped through breakfast dishes before she marked her ballot. a Jolisnsting, Sols Here Mrs. Roberts scrambles eggs while Clerk Ben Roberts peels

ing of Lisa's “Second Hungarian| apples and Clerk Mrs. Charlotte Elliott shreds.cabbage for slaw. Rhapsody.” - t

When the music stopped, the NN man sighed. Then he pulled out, ourt 0 0d a revolver, took $35 from the. cash

He entered the music store where |

Held as ‘Fences’ in

on his face. Reached in Drive Wrist Watch ‘Deal’ All Armed Drunk In

Public Works P fograms COMMUNITY FUND DRIVE | HARRY HORNSTEIN, 48, of 3210, Lagging, Fleming Says Goal ...... vevereseinas.S1,279200 lin inion Ave, was one of five men NEW ORLEANS, Nov, 4 (UP)— Collections 318,970 ‘held in New York today in conhec- A *Maj. Gen. Philip B. Fleming, fed-| Per Cent of Goal ............ 25 [}jon with alleged’ attempts to sell ple's : eral works administrator, called to- |$40000 worth of . stolen’ - wrist 500 for comfort.

v for more than $75 billion in! The 7000 Community Fund work- % ) ; on works eR TiOr during ers had already attained one-fourth Watches, New York police’ said.

{ ihe next 15 years. |of their $1,279,200 goal for 1948 as| Gordon, de-| This Or he told the American the annual campaign moved into fa Wexler, Hi. Wages : A a Municipal Association here, repre- Second official day. boot " sents edod™ state and local ae At the first report meeting and) logger he JEokibition sa) He’ Works |official campaign kick-off yesterday| : oun op by NY po hoe Gen, Fleming said that public Workers reported preliminary collec. Al, or rg Jecelving works have been “underbuilt” by tions bf $318,970 leaving only $960- The others held

i 230 of the goal to be collected before : ot aust V9 villion iy the Past 15) covey; Aire of the drive. Rittenberg, 42; Gerald Martin, 25,

Hugh K. Duffield, associate tens and Nicholas D'Arcangelo, 22. Abe eral chairman of the campaign, con-| Arraigged before Chief Magistrate $200 Million Urged. For Nation's Parks

were Bérnard

ducted the meeting yesterday in the Edgar Bromberger in felony: court,

leral chairman. Mr. Cannon sent Were held without bail on charges

WASHINGTON, Nov. ¢ (UP)— i f acti i t with Martin meters lon of unusuall fi ’ word to the workers there would be Of acting in concer artin| ; , 8; usually he ; Newton B. Drury, director of the =. .o cn of the campaign this and Rittenberg. Bail for the lat | yelled. Rd, the day Mrs. Merrifield was = = dark brown in color. The speed-up in voting brought 2 National Park Service, said today ter pair was fixed at $25.000 each Just about that time the deputy found slain, The latest laboratory -report [eg a flurry of speculation from sup- : ear, : ‘shoved a hand downward andl They also testified that the two porters=of both William H., Wem+ -

the nation’s camping grounds and Utilities Division High recreation areas need about $200) , ,...kdown of collections an-

All will receive hearings Nov, 12, = ~

» POLICE said

He mel Martin at the offices of a

million worth of face-lifting in the : detective posed Id next few years ace : Bounce yesterday: Chicago pv go _| The deputies arrested Ralph Ros- after they reportedly commented rifle home sheek "of" oi ; am 3 10am... 353 Republicans interpreted the spurt h . Utilities division, $86,106.38 or 82 as a Chicago j r ap-| had eanwhile, a check of cleaners o . » 1 53 Mr. Drury pointed to this year’s ‘ ial gifts, proached Martin to . buy | nake, 36, of 3002 River View Drive, Mr. King “had a nice big home, produced no sign of the slain; Si Ae Mhsues in North Bide voting to a trend to. Tecord 25.205.320 vistors (0 service- |X: Cab of its goal; special gifts, atches lon charges of drunkenness and dis-|and “could afford” to buy bandages. © = © EL TO PELL Cl art 3 A Moo. 3112 (Noon)... 34 | ward Mr. Wemmer. . ) $143,297 or 73.1 per cent; E | Samples of the hair of both wom- : " « PR Sa. m.... 51: Ep WM... 88; Democratic leaders speculated

orderly conduct. administered areas. ships, $2,150.41 or 27.9 per cent; wi pre

railroads, $983 or 147 per cent; wear company yesterday.)

‘ He said more than $100.million sports

should be spent on modernizing .ecidential, $9676.50 or 12.1 per Martin allegedly showed him ww Ex=Envo

overhauling and ..extending Dark ..... mercantile, $18,737.86 or 8.7 Worth of watches which police said| roads, parkways and trail systems. per "cent: commercial, $12,889 or had the ‘serial numbers of the “r.. . {112 per cent; industrial, $35,284:05 Watches stolen from the Uris Corp. Life Sentence Asked or 84 per cent; public employees, Marsh Bs Riftenijers allegedly en-| ® : . $4863.20 or 7.3 per cent, and down- lered wiih a g containing $500 For Anti-Red Romanian i. $4983 or pel per-tent. worth of watches. Later, D’Arcan-| BUCHAREST, Romania, Nov. 4 Divisions will hold their own re- 8elo, Wexler and Hornstein entered (UP)—The state prosecutor de-!port meetings tomorrow and Pri- the office ‘and-all ‘were arrested. manded the maximum penalty, life day. imprisonment, today for 75-year-

old Juliu Maniu, who, as. leader of : the opposition, was being tried on a Odon Truck Driver

years of a 10-year sentence for income tax .evasion. He was sen-

Verdicts and sentences in thel yp)... Alva Phillips, 22-year-old 8.4.8 cases of Mr. Maniu and 18 otheriogon truck driver, was charged Peasant Party leaders, all accused o.iih reckless homicide today: folof conspiracy, were expected tomor- j,eije an ‘secident west of Odon

Mr. Hornstein's family said he “just| Mr. Winant;

happened to be in the buildin

row, g himself she had cut Kk d - in which Noah Neal, Sullivan, was When arrests were made and had : 1 cut to take to her daugh Friday and turn colder Sund 6 . Ti | fatally injured Oct. 30. 'no connection with the case. He palatial, oid colonial home. A cor- le: : apni "marr. In Near E. Side Ward imes Index 1x was a nger in a bus went to New York a week ago, the in Rept Winged mm to Police believe either she surprised SPORTS ROUNDUP The first case of illegal voting : : eal passe : “despondency occasion ex- a prowler who had broken in the toda ported the. 13th Amusements’. 6 Movies ...... which collided with a truck driven relative said. Th P n rn y a3 re in 9 .~ 6, Movies 6 . treme, fatigue and nervous. tension. rear door. or that her slayer came :

Hornstein's police record . here

Eddie Ash... 16 Obituaries ... 10/by Phillips. M. Childs,... 12{Dr. O'Brien., 15 ———————————————— |dates back to 1919 when he was ar-i nt a motes Classified ..18-20(P. C. Othman 11!N, Y, Sandhogs Strike [rested on a charge of grand larceny. | :

i \ 5 ’ Only 10 minutes after & oT Comics 21| Patterns 15 . : {On Nov. 12. 1920, -he was fined $100] Funeral services (will be\heid at y. 7 bility, police said, that the daorl "POTS writers, presents hia 3 ao a Tame Come Fans Wo, $2 Day Raise at es on wont in 11s 105, te ppm cour to: MGIB JOU AON wus bron ater nce i om. Sow’ ROUNDUP al es gh eto Editorials .... 12| Records ..... 4 NEW YORK, Nov. 4 (UP)~Lead- years in the reformatory on charges Cemetery, ; $pondency Sccasioned by. ex. fuse investigators. ; voted. the Teal Mr. Souders

Forum ...... 12|Mrs. Roosevelt 14/ers of 1200 striking sandhogs said of vehicle taking and burglary. | oo ney

LIGHT BALLOTING — Only one vote .could be cast today in the 3d precinct of Washington Township inside as there was only one person to vote, Mrs. Mary - Katherine Roberts, 4413 Millersville Rd. Mrs. Roberts is the only registered voter who lives within a 145-acre tract annexed to the city this summer. Although election officials-were ready for business at 6 a. m. Mrs. Roberts didn't check in with the registration judges until 9:13 a. m. Here she is cleared for voting in her own home by

Deputy Sheriff Ernest Crickmore | today went out to find a drunk who!

|was causing trouble at Rocky Rip-! 3 election—He found lim too of the Merrifield murder were released today,

¥ | Foxworthy learned from persons at The quintet. which included Irving: , Ripple Town Hall polling place Was committed,” he told Mrs. Sally Johnson, 62, of 109 N. New Jersey

that & drunk had been “raising St, and Sarah Mallet, 60, of 116 N. cain” and had gone home to get his New Jersey St. rifle “to blow’ everybody out.” The two officers started to searc r- the disgruntled citizen and! {found him two blocks away. |weaying unsteadily, an old Virginia khow they needed peddler's licenses (squirrel rifie in his hand. As Deputy Crickmore stepped up house and one said she could.not to him the gun-toter quickly pushed read. ' ed ri | absence of Fermor 8, Cannon, gen- Gordon, Hornstein and D'Arcangelo| (® MERGES Sn of me Jou A.

“I'm gonna blow ‘em “out,”

averted the gun muzzle long enough were ordered off the residence of twist it out of the man's hands. John King, 756 Pleasant Run blvd.

With Gun in His Home

‘Nervous Fatigue’ Held Cause of Tragedy

ce | CONCORD, N. H., Nov. 4 (UP)— Wexler Was released from federal john Gilbert Winant, 56, wartime prison in 1942 after serving seven| Bor to Great Britain ‘and former governor of New Hampshire, eharge of conspiring against the Charged With Homicide tenced to « year in prison in 1943 fatally shot himself in the right

Nov. 4 IOF dealing in black market -sugar. temple last night. after first: at- RK tempting suicide with an unloaded

IN INDIANAPOLIS, a member of gun. officials said today. scion of an aristo-

g" cratic New England family, killed in: the bedroom of his

Authorities sald

Solicitor Raymond K.

ballot to Inspector: Juliis F. Johnson, she said: "Mr, Wemmer leads | to 0 in the 3d precinct of Washington Township inside." Breakfast was served officials after they helped get the Roberts youngsters off to school.

% Democratic Party a: technical vic- within a short time.

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JUST MARKING TIME — Although the only vote was in, election officials could not legally leave until 4 p. m. when it took a"unanimous vote to close the polls. To pass the time of day. a six-handed euchre game sprang up in the dining room. Cokes and coffee went with the cards. The players around the table are {left to right) Mr. Roberts, Mrs, Elliott, Mr. Johnson, Mrs. Roberts, Mr. Off and Mrs. Mitchell. |

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Hoosier Among 5 (lick Twist Foils Release 2 Women Peddlers

Merrifield Slaying Case

Pair Found Guilty of Selling Without Permits; - Hunt Pressed for ‘Mystery Figure’

Two women peddlers who have been questioned in the investigation

Judge Joseph Howard of Police Court 3 withheld judgment after

Deputies “Crickmore and Harry finding the two women guilty of selling without peddlers’ lcenses.

“You two just happened to be caught in a web when a major crime

“Otherwise you ¢0 Were compared to a hair foun ‘would probably have been warned clutched in the dead woman's hand’ pn the first time.” vesterday, but tests were inconclusive, Meanwhile, laboratory tests showed conclusively that the hair found in Mrs. Merrifeld's hand came from a woman's head. Deputy Sheriff Virgil Quinn said laboratory tests of the hair, one of the most vital clues in the case, showed it to be about eight centi-

Unaware of Law

He was Both women said they did not

to sell bandages from house to

Detectives said the two women were selling near thé home of Mrs he Mabel Merrifield, 2583 Churchman

spurfed the search for a “mystéry woman’ seen fleeing from the Mer-

of an ensemble she was wearing, is missing along with ‘a glove and a billfold congaining less than $5. Fall to. Find Driver Combined city-county-state detective teams also have been unable to trace a Red Cab, whosé driver asked neighbors for directions to the Merrifield address the afternoon -of the murder. Cab company records show no cab was dispatched {there. Route sheets show no report of a driver being in that area. Detectives believe Mrs Merr(fleld went to a bus stop near her home about 11:30 a. m. vocéteh a bus to visit - her daughter. Mrs. Ruth Foster, 1120 N. Alabama St. She returned to her house, either to get her gloves which she had forgotten or-a bunch of marigolds which

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he apparently to the hous# before she returned

to the bus stop, There is a, poasi-

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treme . fatigue and nefvous

ltween 4 and 6 p. m. when office and store workers get to their home precincts. :

) " exceed earlier estimates. Photos by Victor Peterson, Times Siaff Photographer. lreach 120,000 out of 191,000 persons registered. This means THE VOTE IS CAST -— The voting booth was set [that more than 70,000 voters will stay at home for one rea-

up in"Mrs. Roberts" dining room. As she handed her (300.0 another.

light” during the early hours, but heavy balloting is expect

Thousands Flock ccna in he cuisine

{tion campaigns and a special con- 350 heing used in the city’s 312 pre- , gressional election in the 10th dis- cinets were jammed in the first two - trict,

4. present 74 of the state's 102 cities jeqst trouble and confusion of any liave’ Republican mayors, gi thal election here in the last 10 years, % number was certalp to be reduced They attributed this to a last-mine. ‘according t3 leaders of both major ie class of instructions given elee~ . ©

. Estimate Total Vote Above 120,000 Election board officials estimated that if the aboverormal balloting prevails this afternoon the total vote will They predicted the total may ~~ +

. Voting on the South and West Sides was reported “very

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ed in these areas this after-

|hotirs of voting. These were rePolitical dopesters conceded the paired and restored to service

tory in the municipal elections. At! miection officials. reported the .

parties. - . tion" board members last night on ~~. °° The gray- weather vas expected the technical operation of - voting 2 to favor the GOP, particularly In machines. the 10th district, where threat of Heaviest on East Side

rain was lkely to keep farmers from their seasonal field work and an Saves rt give them an opportunity to vote. a on 3 near East Side industrial area, near Light voting was anticipated in North Side and downtown precincts. ‘es ; most cities, too, except in Indian- ‘pop y to 100 votes were ted apolis, Evansville, Bloomington and east in some of these downtown a few others where contests are 50 precincts before 8 a. m hot issues were e to set: : dE the handicap re eal ? i Two precinct election boards In ' |the 21st and 7th wards asked for Harvey Victory Seen {an additional voting machine on Because the 10th district is pi2- their estimate t the voting this dominantly agricultural and tradi- afternoon would be too heavy for tionally Republican, Ralph Harvey one machine. | was expected to ride into Congress| Only six vofers were challenged 3 over Frank Hanley of Muncie, the at the polls during the first three Democratic candidate in the 10th. hours. Theif names did not apHowever, ‘Democratic _ state head- pear on the precinct péll books and quarters here freely predicted that they were sent to the courthouse six or possibly eight of the 10 cities for vertified dom from the master in the district would go Democratic files. / in municipal contests. Four of /these six were granted In the general municipal picture certifica of error, permitting only 96 of the 102 city. elections them to vote. The names of the were contested. In six cities either tWo others were not found regis. Republican or Democratic candi- tered and they were turned away. dates were unopposed. | A clerk in the 4th precinct of the . Despite the mathematical proba- 17th ward, 1831 Applegate St, bility that Democrats would show Ctused some confusion when the ‘ net gains in the election of mayors POls opened at 6 a. m. by demanding 6 to upset the top heavy Republican !DAt 8ll voters declare their polit » control, observers were inclined ‘to| lc! party affiliation, commissioners .

minimize the effects of such a shift Deputy election > quickly advised her of the law. The

{Continued on Page 7—Column 5) clerk had confused the general elec- - w— |tion/ with primary voting when the . party affiliations are required to Overcast Skies : Flurry of Speculation

‘mer, GOP mayoralty candidate, and

LOCAL TEMPERATURES {Al Feeney, Democratic nominee, Be

that the heavier balloting meant & : protest vote against the GOP ade y ra ministration in favor of Mr, Feeney, ]

How Machines Jam

Indianapolis voters went to the polls today under dark, overcast skies and the Weather Bureau pre

dicted cloudiness would continue # with showers and scattered thun- Election officials warned voters

der storms tomorrow, | hau sous Yolttid sachines will jam Along with the forecast of threat- Ie. voter. pushes ening weather the bureau said tem- the School "Board . candidates: he= peratures would be ‘somewhat fore pulling the. party lever on aity warmer S00 tenth. ie complaint on this : Light rains expected this “Hioin- 4 « ing failed to materialize Tempera- Was Tucelved from 24 preg In :

ward tures were expected to drop to 50 ' neh Election commissioners said only

fe : and + In the extended forecast issued ey hachines Sg Je this 3id by the bureau today for Indiana instructed to Warn: voters to cast temperatures for the remainder of pallots for School —Commissionersthe week ‘are ‘éxpected to average 3 agrees wbove nama after voting the party tickets,

It will become somewhat warmer Police Hunt Imposter

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editor and dean of Hoosier | Pulton Bt.

—~ i . 13| Rouark i 31 od or gow BS nt Joao tekins 241d that Mr. Winant first tension’ was held the cause of WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (UP)—| - of things to come , . , are | was Allowed to vote ier aya ey ad ay tunnel until their $2-a-day of violation of the prohibition aot 30 hos Jimselt Yi + Get» the suicide last night of John |The Federal Communications Com-1 told by this veteran who |wide police alarm broadest : oh ! Gilbert Winant, 58. ex-ambas- mission said today that station| KNOWS the game. [rest the imposter, whose

‘Don Hoover . 12) Teen Topics. ..15 wage increase demands are met. He was held by federal officers in 0 aor of his bedroom “when it

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