Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 November 1947 — Page 3

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FRIDAY, NOV. 28, 1947

11 Die in State Traffic

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Tallin U.S; One Killed Here

2 Fatalities Occur At Railroad Crossings

Eleven men and women were killed in trafic accidents in Indiana over the Thanksgiving holiday —one of them in Indianapolis. It was the third highest death | toll in the nation. New York rei corded 18 fatalities and Illinois, 12. if : Two were killed in grade-crossing| accidents and nine in crashes at-| tributed to highways made skiddy | by the weather and poor visibility. The dead were: ; Robert E. Marendt, 22, of 1438 N.| Holmes Ave. He was killed in a two-car crash at South and Meri-| ) dian Sts. yesterday. His wife, Joan, 22, and mother-in-law, Mrs, Cath-| ) erine Hopkins, 50, were slightly in-| jured. H Car Abandoned | |

Police said the driver of the other| car fled the ‘scene of the accident on foot, leaving the vehicle in al ¥ filling station driveway. 4 : Early this morning, they traced I the license number of the aban3 doned automobile to Dennis Eaton] IS of 531 Holley St. Mr. Eaton told| ] traffic division investigators the automobile had been operated by

luis brother, Paul LAST LOAD—William J. Schoch, R.R. I, Lindbergh Drive,

. BE Goin) picks up one of his last truckloads for the Post Office Department. i He died at General Hospital of a, He retired yesterday after 30 years service.

' . skull fracture. . . uN. 8 he . 8.8 . 1 Mrs. Ruby Meyers, 50, of Misha- i : WwW iH J S k ] oh Raby eet poor. 35, MIAIIMAN WW HTIAM J. 2CNOC A of Walkerton. ° x : They were killed in a head-on R 3 Aft 30 Y crash on an icy section of U. 8. 30] e ires er ears near Hamlet, Ind. Both women. were | After 30 years of serving South(say he was quite a baseball player passengers in an automobile op- Side communities from the Post with the Post Office team. He also erated by Mrs. Mildred Wallace of Office, William J. Schoch hung his played semi pro ball. Walkerton, who suffered a broken mailbag ori the wall this week. He bowls a 178 average with his leg and internal injuries. For many years Mr. Schoch car- bowling leagues, too. Roman Kostanski, 40, of Chicago. ried a route from the Fountain)y When Mr. Schoch’s retirement beHe was killed yesterday when his Square station, and since 1935 he came effective fellow ‘employees automobile skidded into a truck on has been assigned to the Illinois| joined in ceremonies at the Illinois U. S. 12 near Gary. Two other | St. Station in the parcel post diviy St. Station. passengers were injured. sion. 1 He said he might mo in his pare : : “Bill” Schoch wasn't just a mail time in retirement as a sione Killed at Crossing !carrier though, for his associates carver, Mrs. Dora Lutz, 37, of Hobart.

Unable to stop at a railroad. cross-| ° ¥ ing in Hobart, she attempted to College Girl S Nude Body beat a Pennsylvania Railroad train] ‘eo to the crossing and lost the race] 5 d P WwW d according to State Police. Her oun * rozen in 00 S daughter, Rebecca, @ was slightly) WAYLAND, Mass, Nov. 28 (UP)—A tentative verdict of suicide was injured. returned by a medical examiner today in the death’ of a Radcliffe Mrs. Audie Ricketts, 54% of Oak- College girl. . land City. She died in an Evans-| Her nude body was found frozen in a brushy woodland glade, ville hospital yesterday of injuries The victim was identified as Miss Frances Flint, 22. She had ‘ received in a two-car collision a been shot in the face with a 22-caliber bullet. 3 few hours earlier at the intersec~- ——————— | The former Concord, N. H,, girl tion of U. S. 41 and Ind. 57. . had been missing from the college Emory Bridges, 27, of Paris Cross- my 1] S p since Tuesday. She had been studyi; ing. He died in a three-car crash |ing for a master of arts degree in 7 at a road junctionssouth of Frank- religious philosophy. Her widowed

». lin. Su ersonic Plane mother, Mrs. William Flint, Cam- | Roscoe Shields, 21, of Mitchell bridge, is a house matron at the)

His body was found in his wrecked] WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 (UP) —, college. car yesterday one mile east of Pros- The Army already has under con-| Police Chief Ernest Damon oi pect on Ind. 56. State Police said struction a later model of the plane Wayland said Miss Flint had suf-| the automobile sipped off the road which it is testing now for a flight fered from a mental depression in

and hit a bridge abutment. Strikes Trailer

which was jack-knifed across thi

faster than sound. . The new plane is the XS-2. Its

Idella Veal, 29, of Detroit. She prototype, the XS-1, now is underdied yesterday of injuries received going tests at Muroc, Cal, for an in a truck-car crash ‘on Ind. 120,/attack on the sonic barrier. said State police said the automobile jn| Man has never flown faster than| which she was riding as a passenger the speed of sound—761 miles per

crashed into a stalled truck-trailer hour at sea level—although various e missiles such as the German V-2 of Framingham. He said, however,

recent months, “It's pretty hard to tell although! I think the facts point to suicide, rather than murder,” Chief Damon said. |

Autopsy Planned His theory was corroborated by medical-examiner J. Harry McCann

that he planned to perform an

highway. have attained speeds up to 3600 The driver, Robert J. Lindsey, De-| miles per hour. autopsy before making an official troit, was taken to an Elkhart hos-| Has Added Refinements finding. pital. The XS-1 and XS-2 are similar The body lay face upward in a

Mrs. George Sachse, 49, of Marion. in many respects. The XS-1 has a clump of birches and pines with a She was fatally injured late rocket motor. The XS-2 is expected bullet wound in the nose. Miss | Wednesday in a two-car crash on to be similarly propelled. Both are Flint’s clothes—a blouse, a coat, 8 Ind. 37 north of Marion. The car manufactured by Bell Aircraft sweater, and a pair of grey dun-| was driven by her son, Foster. Corp., Buffalo, N. Y., but the XS-2, garees—were scattered in a Clear~| David Leachman, 76, of Fair- Which is expected to be ready for ing several yards away. mount. He was killed when 'a New flight late in 1948, will have such| Also found near the body was a| York Central train struck his auto- refinements as swept-back wings blanket, a package of cigarets, and | mobile at a crossing south of and a tricycle landing gear. an envelope bearing a man’s name| Pendleton late Wednesday. Existence of the XS-2 was ‘dis- and a Maine address. Pinned Under Wreckage [closed by Maj. Gen. H. 8. Aurand, In the brush about 50 feet away

. . director of Army research and de- searchers found a 22-caliber Win-| State police said Mr. Leachman, yaonment, in a report on the pro- chester rifle believed to be the] a retired farmer, was pinned under o.... for the next fiscal year. weapon with which she had been | the wreckage of his car. : The Army said it had within its shot. In Indianapolis, 7-year-old Judith wg.sn» the power to fly faster than | Shy, But Normal Fay Colber of M11 5 High School ye speed of sound. | The family automobile was found | Rd. lay ‘in critical * condition at Devise New Camouflage f

y r 0 yesterday parked about a quarter Methodist. Hospital today, the victim, q10r gisclosures in the report: of a mile from the body.

o Rr from of her home| Gong: The Army is proceeding Miss Flint was considered, by | ar r full speed in co-operation with the classmates to be a shy but normally She was struck by ‘dn automobile ine : operated by Carl Beyer, 32, of Cleve- Atomic Energy Commission to at- happy girl with several boy friends. | ‘and. O 2.0% tack the problem of producing ad-| Police were at a loss to explain are ditional atomic weapons. At pres- why the girl would remeve her Harry H. Houghtalen, 43. of 4149 ent the only known atomic weapon clothes if she intended taking her| Carrollton Ave., an auxiliary police ; : : : man. ‘was injured dast night.” He is the atomic bomb. own life. They also were puzzled | ' Bk TWO: New Army camouflage has by the fact that the rifle was found was struck by an automobile as he a “ been devised “analogous to the so far from the body. directed traffic at the State Fair- Cag ¥ . ds at 38th St Buck Rogers fantasies. - Retr grout nd duly ' THREE: The Army & adapting ANDERSON NEWSMAN DIES b A 1 ee rs a - ta San the famed proximity fuse used in| ANDERSON, Nov. 28 (UP)—Wil:| ro was rile tin; te o K wn shells in World War II to guide liam H. Dennison, an Anderson e, i mpting make a Ill nissiles and pilotless aircraft weap- newspaper reporter for6l, years,| died today in a hospital her

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-1.00 ic Ki ae ' [aS } S EVENTS TODAY ard, Evelyn Farber; Bill, Helen Meyer; | 1 t A i | Sabbath Eve Services in Syuagoqu. Roper w Rsemary Tuohy, and William, 3 : Exchange Club—Claypool Hotel, y:

alt: At Methodist—Louis, Betty Prizzell; WilYAKUTAT, Alaska, Nov. 28 (UP) Optimist Club—Severin Hotel. am. Edith Off; n : i re y oA it ilison; y, 8 I Civil Aeronautics officials at- EVENTS TOMORROW Dek. ohn. Busie Fish: Charlier’ Luvine mpted learn toda DC- i Frye, and William, Ceiia Roberts. te to y why a 3| Chirdrenty Mussib Guild Bat—p p. m. to At General—Paul Plorence West, end airliner and cargo plane plunged indiana Association of Teachers of Re. "iliam, Mary Glover.

ligion—Indiana Central College. | ——— into a hill and burned yesterday ME I | DEATHS with a loss of 13 lives. BIRTHS Annabelle Monroe, 57, at General, car-

The plane was coming in for a Se Vinal Boys ; a Snape landing through light mist and send’ Franch. Mbsgace: Baur 'h- Glen Hazelrigg, 76, at Long pneumonia Rose Medyeseck: Howard. Vers Span: Lula A. Flick, 61, & St. Vincent's, cardio fog when it suddenly swerved and _ CH Th onc k Howard. Vers Span: vascular renal . unged into a low hillside. Officials’ ert, Olga i, : Anna Bejie Featheringill 82. at 1445 Phung 8. Franeis—Joseph, Anetta Gales; James, Broadway, cerebral hemorrhage

& St ~ 1 | from the Yakuta! ranger Station’ Norma Bishop; Charles. Dorothy Boden’ | “5 Oreranoee, 80 & Delaware,

and residents of the area found the! Carl. Mary Clendennen. Robert. Belly ygrry patrick Collins, 73, at General | , Carlson, and Thomas, Norma Preeland. |" op ol hemorrhage

1 transport demolished and all aboard At Celeman-—Thomas, Jeanne Beuefiel | ” “ FR. nn Mary A. Livingston 67, at 720 W. 54th. | dead. Their bodies were burned Ew oY Sharp, and Quintino, coronary thrombosis as 0 i almost beyond recognition. a Methodint—avia, Dorothy oR lery. Do arren, 93, at 1813 Carsoitton.] oland, eanne th; John, oselia t y fot The plane, owned by the Colum- Aldrich: John, Shirley Tousies Charles Bima Mary Josemhing % a bia Air Cargo Co., of Portland, Ore, Jan Wilbur. Charles. Eleanor Greene. charles Giljie. 78. at General pneumonia , ’ FE james, Geraldine Hurst, Arnold, Mar- gueivn G.. Coleman, 65, at 631 Tecumseh was carrying 11 passengers return- garet Bohiander: Louls, Adele Silver Arcinoms ro " homas ucy naerson ree. aron 1 1 4 Ing to thelr homed on chartep/rates’ Chappell: Charies, Mariha RABOIA. (nd © yori abeth Chaqwell, 38. at General { 7 after the aircraft had unloaded (ilies Mary Larkins ed Kendrick Nick Dancy, 56, at Veterans, carcinoms 4 ] or , Wini . " t 4 cargo at Fairbanks. and Anchorage, and Archie, Lucy Stewart. jBtenitn Caius Medaria, - 9, at Methodist, aska, Girls Della N. McPherson, 71, at 1148 Spruce, Al At St. Vincent's—James, Addie Case: Bise,| carcinoma It was piloted by Jay B. Haworth Lyds Cox: John Elizabeth Russell; Fd. Anna L. Schmidt, 79. at 8070 E. 8t. Jo- * ward, Jane ardson. iam seph. myocarditis Jr, Portiand. Dre. " Wor War II Hak and Emerson. Milired Rush, enti Baker, 5, at 2223 Columbia, +» pilot. Co- was LA. ame ‘ . Francis--Lijoyd. rgaret ith: bronechit p A. Keramen, M, urd. Semer; Roneri. Charles EB. Puckett. T1. at i303 W. Morris. s 38, Vanport City, Ore., also a vet- Jean Burkert, and Lloyd, Martha cerebral hemorrhage

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