Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 November 1947 — Page 5

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a conference with residents to re-|. view the facts so far assembled in, the gruesome case. Burney Retells Tragedy The conference at

and Maj. Robert O'Neal of the state police. ;

husband of the slain woman; McConnell

bor whom Mr, Burney summoned

- Wednesday evening when Mrs. Bur-|g4e of Pennsylvania St. The truck ney's body was found, and Capt.packed east and south into tie John J. Barton and Detective 8gt.iroadway. It8 front* wheel hit the Robert H. Shields of the state PO-istones on the north side of the drive . and also broke a small, ornamental ‘ Mr. Burney, who is still in a state gece : a R bh

lice of shock, retold the story of the He and Mrs, Burn

several days. Receives No Answer

He received no answer,

the front door open, he ran to call

Mr. Ross, This was at 6 p. m. © purse. No one knows. At any rate, The Burneys had moved into the a woman's black, kid glove, barely), . .ome from Gen. Meyers?” Sub~ bhed .

on, a pump gun. She fired once at the intruder, but missed. The shot / |tore into the woodwork and wall.

the Burney oun away from her and shot her. He left in a hwrry, taking the gun

parked in the Burney's cement Present were Herschel A. Burney, driveway, but no one recalls seeing it there. As he backed out of the and Harold Boone grjve in a rush, the truck's dual friends and business associates of tires left their marks on Mr. Burney; Paul Ross, the neigh-|yashed stones flanking the drive.

ey were plan-iiyor packed southward into the aligning Se. wee vanla St. ends at 86th St. From on el «1. there, the slayer could have taken how ihe was feeling, sino she had Glee’ Ave, back to town or turned SAYS Me ers Firm omen been at home with a headache f0r| yes; toward State Road 31 (Merid- J ian Bt). . During the conference, investiga- [ S He hung (tors pointed out small finger V Nn up and dialed the number again. smudges on the wall of the second The phone kept ringing. He drove bedroom. It

home, somewhat apprehensive. that the intruder took Mrs. Burney’s id Gen. Mevers then \ When he found the house dark and purse, containing about $5. Sestified. He said Gen, Meye roup.

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- She Fired Once - > Mrs. Burney had seized the weap-

The Mtruder then wrested the

His truck evidently bad been

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The Burney home is on the west

Street Ends at 86th -

TE — ato. the "WHAT CAN WE DO?" — Representatives of Indianapolis women's clubs met this morning to discuss the question that is on ev the board of the Woman's Department Club just as the mass meeting went into session.

From 61 Clubs/1) Die in State [Truman Asks for Power To Impose Price Ceilings

(Continued From Page One) different from overall wartime price

Photo by John Spicklemire, Times Staff Photographer.

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(Continued From Page One) cize the women and the mothers oe wal b id , controls,” he said, : Sanders said. “That's what we are/our community who fail in their 3 rent eontrol. h [talking about when we say pressure duty of aiding law enforcement. It's| * (Continued From Page Ine) “NINE: To authorize consumer] He thought that fair distribution | |your own fault." | was struck by a New York Central ,.iioning on products in short of scarce things could be accoms took the shares as collateral on!” «yoy don't have to be a member) Must Be Certain train at the Highway 103 crossing supply which basically affect the(plished “without consumer rations Perhaps her gloves were in the, ney he had lent the firm. of & woman's club to be robbed. You| She said that in this case the near New Castle. cost of living. ing” for at least a while, “All the money that the COMPany |..." live in the dumps and be bond was lowered because of the Addison Chenoweth, 72, of Foun- “«pEN: To authorize price ceilings) “But no one can foretell exactly uncertainty of the woman who was! tain City, died in a hospital ato, products in short supply which how “serious some shortages may

was from this room (Continued From Page One)

| fiverico bungalow 1 mouths age) worn, Was lound « half mile from committee Counsel William Rogers, “When you ralsed your eyebrows | assaulted about the identity of her Fountain City yesterday of injuries jagically affect the cost of living or|become next year,” he added. Pre

after living in Marcy Village, Un-|the home beside a -culvert on N. asked. used to the semi-isolation of sur} Buoineyl vans St. by two sNeriff's .ryais correct,” Mr. LaMarre'|.. no to believe some of you are| eputies.

ban dwelling, Mrs. Burney liad] been fearful of prowlers. This fear had been fanned sev-

eral months ago when a tramp |the missing shotgun on the theory, Meyers’ name on | came to the door demanding food.|thé slayer had thrown it away as he og ordered Pig | Chief Sanders also scored women |H. Richards said the Since then, she had kept the Soors fled.

locked, . particularly when she” was

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entranace to the Burney home? Watts Tells His Technique | Watts admitted under state police!

questioning his technique was to truck cruising slowly past her home im to send a repre-| drive up to a victim's home in the Which faces N. Pennsylvania St. we(Mieyess iold Sa 2 Jena 5X Det: | utes. City truck, which lent him an air d8y of the slaying. A man resem- |, . J,peontract for airplane elec-| of official business and tended to bling Watts’ description was driv- trio equipment. Mr, LaMarre did |g ¢ricient tools to do the job.” ing it, peering into her house. land subsequently the first subcon-

‘lessen suspicion, He would ask to use the tele] phone.

listen to determine if his woman] victim was alone.” If she was, he! would attempt to assault her.

How, then, did the slayer gain looking through the dead leaves be-|_,,,"p “oes of about $30,000 on |

fide the stream Which Fun urkder 26,000 contract with the Signall aan and squawk your heads off | ister for fear of publicity.

While riffing the phone thorities, book, he would look around and didn't want any publicity.

lat the reputation of this girl you assailant, |received earlier in the day when he jnqustrial ~~ production, and tojsumably he had in mind, for one “If we want to punish criminals, Was struck by a car on Highway authorize such wage ceilings as sre thing, the possibility of a wheat to sign afdavits and 27 near his home, essential to maintain the necessary crop failure next year, {these men. If you do you're crazy.” go into court and testify.” | Mattison W. Eckler, 80, of Rich- price ceilings.” “With serious shortages, a free When Not to Squawk |” A man who gave his name as W. mond, was killed yesterday when he| Thus the President asked. for the market works cruel hardships om “roots of this Was struck by a truck on a Rich- return of virtually all the govern-| countless families and puts an une . who |mond street near his home. ment’'s wartime economic controls,/bearable pressure on prices. I | Albert E. Cook, 42, Chicago, was put promised that these controls therefore recommend that authority {killed Saturday night when his car would be used only {f it becomes he granted , .. to ration basic cost

said. lready to go down and plead for'we will have Name X-ed Out |

The. deputies were searching for Mr. Ferguson asked Mr. LaMarre

1 New Angle Develops | | |who were “too busy” to:serve on|thing are the newspapers . , epBil — “Gen. Meyers,” Mr. LaMarre sald. je; He also blamed unwilling-|are practically printing invitations puis, an Mr. LaMapre testified that thei... to pay higher taxes for poor every day to crodks to come to In-| Reliiley,, were, y--neated the. end of 1040. 5100 protection. -. TRAPS 8 US." | overturned near La Porte. | necessary. ~~ lof living items , . * “If you want protection, don't| Several women were afraid to reg- Mrs. Angela Krusemark, Chicago,i “All the actions Y fiave described Tre President asked Congress to jwas fatally hurt in a two-car col- are essential to a fair and efficlent!go right away to give him power h neighbor stopped. - | rps. |when we ask for more taxes to pay| Bishop Richard Kirchhoffer, head |lislon on Highway 30 near Etna anti-inflation program,” the Presi- to establish these contracts. She sald she had seen an orange “yy.” Gq thi; was when Gen.|go. more policemen and more dep-|of the Episcopal Diocese of Indian- Green dent said. “It takes several months to set |apolis, warned against “things done’ Herschel H. Baker, 34, of Port-| “I look upon them as short-run, an organization and make the {land, was killed yesterday when his insurance against the impeachment, ministrative arrangements neces=

|car overturned near Marion, {of our prosperity and-the threat to sary to put price cortrol and ras Miss Julia Landers, clubwoman, Plane Dive Fatal our future development.” tioning into effect,” the President The chief also touched on the un- asked for all women to “pull togeth-| Paul Dewey Hudson, 49, Elletts- Mr. Truman said that inflation ,..coned, She had not reported this to au- tract was obtained from Bell Willingness of women to report mo- ler and rescue Indianapolis.” She ville merchant, also was killed yes- has already reached “an alarming “Thus,” he added, “the only she sald, because she’ .Mr, LaMarre also testified that Hlestings. |condemned pressure of politiciansiterday when his private airplane degree” at home and '"is getting! dent course is to establish the \Gen.. Meyers drew up minutes of 8! «r the half dozen or dozen wom- and racketeers in short-circuiting crashed into a hillside three miles Worse.” He.sald he realized that! thority at this time so the neces fictitious directors’ meeting chang-| en who claim to have been assault-|justice. northwest of Bloomington, Wit- Some of his proposals were drastic. ... reparations can be started, ing the firm's list of officers. Heloq by this suspect the day of the Remy in Warning {nesses said his plane failed to come | Protect Our People “If we fail to prepare, and dise said the minutes were drafted inpyrney slaying had had the back-| William H. Remy, safety board out of a dive, | “But if we face the facts squarely, aster results from our unprepared

While ‘the

“lf you want a good job done, when hatred stirs the heart.” furnish those you put in office with| The meeting was inter-racial.

Mysterious Phone Call Shortly after the truck went

northward up the hill, her tele- ’ ¥ The phone book was found open J Gen. Meyers’ Wright Field office. \pone to call up and report we could | president, warned the women to| Virgil Kellogg, 23, Hartford City it iS apparent that no other|ness, we will have gambled with

to the letter “H.” A bent butcher knife was found on the bedroom! shells. One of these had killed Mrs. Burney. : State police reviewed their theory|

that the slayer entered the house wie, he Joung prints hn 3 Feb. 28, 1941, Gen. Meyers raised by a ruse. He might have asked to|SPaced section Of ‘awn near ule his salary from $38 a week 10 determine what's wrong with law He might have | back kitchen window. One f00t-.aroung $50" a week. ng | burst in when Mrs. Burney opened Print remained yesterday and was the door, since the storm door was|Plainly visible. She was sure at the further examination by the sub-| The resolution -was read to the to the things we've been ‘saying was walking along railroad tracks|the strength to maintain their in-

use the phone

found unlatched and swinging in time there must have been a prowl- committee of an anonymous letter women by Mrs. Arcadia Balz, state to you for years.” the wind when Mr. Burney came|¢r looking in her kiichen window. 3 y

home. Violent Struggle Indicated

room, for the overturned furniture|front door was open and the storm Gen. H. H. Arnold pigeon-holed it and broken table leg bore witnessidoor was swinging. That would| Col. Jacob E. Smart, secretary citedly to their feet, so that Mrs. five previous arrests and three sus- other on parole. have helped establish the time of of the air staff for a while when Weinhardt had to limit the com- pended sentences and one dismissal. |

of a violent struggle. He must have gone to the kitchen, because the butcher knife had been| kept there. But how did it get] bent? = | Mrs, Burney must have broken | away from him and

shotgun stood in a corner covered

phone rang. She said a voice kept. |asking: ; {The caller kept repeating the name, floor beside two expended shotgun moronically, she said, until she!

hung up.

\case. The postman. He passes the in aviation stock deals. “The slayer must have ‘attempted Burney home around noontime ana The letter, addressed to the FBI, asked for an expression of opinion South Side. ¢ to seize Mrs. Burney in the living/would have noticed whether the was relayed to the Air Force, where 1; be incorporated in the resolution. One arresfed had 14 arrests for fimes and the .fifth man, 14 times. [tire foreign assistance program.

There was no directors’ meeting, have apprehended this man before beware of panic. He said he would War veteran, was killed yesterday methods can safely be counted upon jour national safety—and lost.” /the murder was committed if he is turn police records over to the in a hunting accident near histo protect our people from the] In asking for the authority for Title of President guilty of it,” he said. /| fact-finding expedition. home. A gun carried by his danger of excessively high prices wage! ceilings, the President said | Mr. LaMarre sald he was given, Mrs. Balz Reads It | “In my’ opinion. this thing is like brother Marion Kellogg, was ac- and ruinous inflation.” he believed there would be “few A "week last Tuesday. she tC [litle of president, succeeding Begore Chief Sanders spoke the a cancer,” Mr. Remy said. “It did cidentally discharged while they| The President, who will submit|occasions” for imposition of this ago ¥, SN€ David Johnson, in 1940, and that on|group passed a resolution to not begin yesterday. It will not were hunting rabbits, The full his recommendations for a long-|type of control. A create a fact-finding committee to! stop tomorrow. charge of the gun struck the war range European Recovery Program| He said he was confident that “I am sorry it has taken the veteran in the head. |in a later message, urged the adop-|if living costs: could be held in lenforcement here and how it can death of two estimable women to James Balley, 45, of Vienna, was tion of the stop-gap program tq reasonable relationship to income,

Mr. LaMarre’s testimony followed pe corrected. direct the attention of you women struck and killed by a train as he #ive the people of Western Europe| “wage adjustments through collec~

tive bargaining will ‘be consistent dependence. with productivity and will avoid whose author charged that Gen. senator from Marion County. |, Mr, Remy recited the records of | He hooked up this country's/an inflationary round of wage ine There was one more item in the Meyers made big wartime profits’ wmps. Carl Weinhardt, president of five of the six men police arrested the streets when the gi! was raped, ability to aid Europe tothe fight creases.” . : = 4 the Woman's Department = Club,/in last month's rape case on the!mr. Remy sald. against inflation at home, stating \ The fourth man was arrested 15 that high prices threaten the en-| extension of controls which expire next spring for - correction of He said the foreign aid could not|“weaknesses” in the present law. be abandoned, nor could the Amer-| After making his toughest eco- ! i “If you women are complaining ican people be abandoned to infla- nomic recommendations since price the slaying. |Gen. Arnold was Air Force chief, ments. “He was finally sent up, then that we have no discipline in our tion, |and wage ceilings were abandoned, But that Wednesday, there was told the subcommittee he thought, The prosecutor's office, the police paroled in time to be on the Indi- city, you forget we have no disci-| Then he outlined in detail the the President promised that even no mail for the Burneys and the there was nothing else to do with and the sheriff's office were criti- anapolis streets the night the girl pline in our homes,” said the safefy(10 points on which he wants with the new authority the governs postman didn't ring. [the letter in view of its anonymous cized for allowing the murder sus- was raped,” Mr. Remy said. board president, speedy legisiation. {ment would intensify its efforts to lauthorship. pect to roam at large while out on| Blamed on Women “We have let the standards down.| In justifying his request for price obtain voluntary action. A Justice Department official had bond on a rape charge. The third man had 25 arrests, When social and moral standards controls, the President said he did| “wherever voluntary action will

Is this Sweet?”

"Sweet. IMF. LaMarre said.

{near Scottsburg. yesterday.

Women then began to jump ex- felgnies since 1944. The second had One was out on probation and the

ran to the " bedroom, where the single-barreled Local Election Cost testified last week that it was an| Mrs. Marian F. Gallup, former eight dismissals and three dis- are let down, it's time for the not think ceilings would be neces- qo the job there will be no #eces-

with wax paper to keep dust out of! the barrel. | Mr. Burney recalled firing the! weapon six weeks ago to kill a rabbit Mrs, Burney had seem while transplanting violets her family had sent her from Greensburg. He had cleaned it. He could not remember

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