Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 December 1947 — Page 1

Pict Sot Qa a. Foo © Former Convict State roopers miiavr To Clamp Lid By Court to $22,000 o ==2=0n Gambling

By NOBLE REED since last Jan, 27. {

A police investigation today re- |

[sulted in the re-arrest of an ex-con-| [viet who had been free under a pp S $2500 bond since last Jan, 27. | After his arrest he was placed, under two bonds, | both totalling . $22,000. 4 a i Detectives declined to disclose information leading to the re-arrest [pending further investigation. The .. prisoner is James Ralph Derrett, 27, {of 606 Beecher St. whose criminal! record shows 24 arrests and six con- » | ictions. New ‘Sucker Sites’ Derrett was arrested last Jan. 21 » . fon a charge of auto banditry and Sought by Bookies JUSTICE IN ACTION—Too young to understand all of the legalities, but old enough to protest the brutal burglary of the Cook Coffee Co. 936 By KENNETH HUFFORD oye . y . ’ ‘ou if ‘ iah E. Georgia St. His bond was set by Reports of plans for a killing of their pets, these school children waited in Municipal Court | today to testi y against two neighbors accused |juace W. D. Bain of Criminal Cour. teports 1 of cruelty to animals. Six-year-old Gerald Minton stands in front of the rail. Lined left to right in back of him are |1 at $12,000. sharp revision of ais police Barbara Manion, Philip Arnold, Barbara Minton, Edward Arnold and Phyllis Minton. Bond Reduced gambling policies blew into nian : rm a———————————— YF | One week later Derrett's attor- Indianapolis today on what a ; . f . . neys filed a habeas corpus petition ” I ill wi Germs Also Get Drunk ° Mother mn Tears, Children to Testif asking reduction of-his bond. may prove to be an ill ind It {> L f § Bacteria indi | Criminal Court records show that for the local gaming and S ay 4 e or . Tells of Finding Yo RAs after this hearing his bond was re- horse play set, | duced to $2500 by" Judge Walter 1t started with a rumor in the In Some Local Taverns Smothered Baby |i Dog Killings Pritchard of Superior Court 4. sf a a h AA A Sis a5. ting as special judge. The record | Indianapolis, at least for some of Only Half of Utensils Used in Drinking Places By JACK THOMPSON | 2 Defendants Accused hows that the bond reduction was 'the boys, 1s about to come une | AN ATTRACTIVE 22-vear-old| made after two deputy prosecutors, hitched. Here Meet U. S. Health Tests {mother today huddled on a stool By Pet Owners Rufus Kuykendall and Raymond So, according to the reports, Fourth of a Series [beside a coal stove as she sobbed| Six Drexel Garden school chil- Tindall, agreed to it. some of the lads started looking ee ha out answers to coroner's questions. dren from 6 to 14 watched court He was released when the $2500 around the county outside the city ; By ROBERT BLOEM | Paroxysms of. grief shook her proceedings with wide eyes today bond was posted by Clara Blom- limits for likely spots to coo! off Do you like to have your back scrubbed ? | body as Mrs. Edith Below, 1015 E. as they waited patiently to testify bers and re eo, without having to close down alIf disease germs are anything like people, they like oreo er y= 3D0Ut . their dead’ pets; { ‘Two months later Derrett was ar- together, : germ Nem 2 peop &, ey Photo On Page Bight "om, yiren were among a num- rested on assault and battery and The catch, it seems now, is that too. So the bacteria around some Indianapolis taverns Ninth St., told how she found her ber of state's witnesses scheduled to trespass charges. Both of these cases state police are getting tired of , ’ must be enjoying themselves. A nice soothing back-washing 2-month-old son, Michael, smoth- appear against James H. Barnett, were dismissed in Municipal Court being pushed around. They've had 3 bout all thev f f th 1 rashi ered to death in his crib, {26, of 5205 Melrose St. and Harold last April 3 while he was still out an awfully rough summer. 1s about a ey get out of some o € glass-washin s a a Wyant, 25, 5203 Melrose St, both on bond on the auto banditry The recent indictment of four of methods now in use. aE bab an s I WN BALTING JoWsvaieed tha charged with cruelty to animals. charge, . them under confusing cireum{swers, she to Ow she pu | The case is being heard before Home Surrounded /stances hasn't helped to forget In the course of the recent William Hacker | baby to bed in their small East Side judge Louis Weiland of Municipal 4, a result of police investiga- their troubles. survey of restaurant sanita-| / home at 10 o'clock last night. [Court 1, after defense attorneys at tion this week. city detectives and Police Limit Activities tion in Indianapolis, The Times, . When she went to the wicker bas-:an earlier hearing asked for a IY gate police surrounded his home Up to v. the 1 i {ket which she had made into a trial - p now, policy of the with the help of a qualified fnspec-| Ca or | (ket trial. ; and recaptured him. a... police board has been to limit tor made swab tests on the mouth- | ’ crib this mong. She Hound Je; Deputy Sheriff Otto Rey, frst glated on a vagrancy charge, Der-| WEDDING BELLS STILLED—This photograph of Ingeborg thelr gambling activities to “on Ing edges of dozens of cups and, : baby dead. The mother lapsed Witness at yesterday's trial OPENINg; vett was arraigned in Municipal Schluter, Berlin, and some love letters are all Joseph Conti of sight” wrecking of slot machines lasses Services Planned (near hysteria as she described find- declared he found four dogs be=|;ourt 4 yesterday and Judge Alex.| R: do.” i glasses. ) f dm fon buried 4 | Richmond has to. console him today..The couple's plans fo marry | —except in cases where city of A few of the rwab tests, used to | : wo i {ine her small son face down: injlonging to: the:children- buri 9M. Clark placed him under $1000 ute Doan halted bo they have never met. Ingeborg was |county officials = Apecificall determine bacterial counts on such For Saturday the crib, apparently smothered by Barneft's yard. : luond on the vagrancy charge, ave n halte ecause they have never met, Ingeborg was | aE y resurfaces, also were made on forks| Services for William A. Hacker, blankets. All had been brutally beaten and, Meanwhile, the two bon | ready to board the plane for Richmond. : wy Es y La « gr i v po . > * ( i 4 Sos or policy, Repub and spoons. assistant superintendent of Idisn-| SPITTING bewildered and fright. [eL 18 Setth, i . Mrs. Blomberg and Mr. Grou gai lican state committee spokesmen only half The tert which sed lapolis Public Schools’ who died: 1o- ph Te lier, INO ONE, dof owned b rs. ose Be 8 [ibs summer astute fhe. oF ih trons put to their lips. fn restaur.(de¥ 8 his Name, Wil! Le held od ng and H+ ani ns ‘pets inth Wyknt's /banditry case tn Oriminal Court. ye a” of the a ants and taverns meet U. S. Public|/1:30 p. m. Saturday at Flanner & As Deputy Coroner CO. P. van Where they were beaten to death. Judge Bain this morning granted | [for reasons of thelr own, Health Service standards of cleanli-| Buchanan mortuary. Burial will be| Meter conducted the routine tn-! Ahe Soy oo has heen’ Ried [their petition and put the bond | A change of the policy has been ness. That standard provides that|in crown Hill, | vestigation, police officers began ning Es SHE RD back to the original $12,000. Derrett | {under consideration for a long time. ; to be safe, the bacterial “colony” Mr. Hacker, an Indiana school tWO-State search to locate tne 3 Was unable to make either the $10,- | Department strategists are well 00 or 1 ' ' » | to Animals, who said the entire 009 or the $12,000 bond i: 2} count must be 100 or less. ; {father, Louis Below, who has not! e ’ ond. | aware that they haven't the manner {teacher most of his life, had been| community was aroused by the In-| 14 was ru d that De | | * =x = been informed of the tragedy. (* rumore: a rrett 1s power nor the money to take over AS POINTED out in the first 25SiStant superintendent 17 years. “9 cident being investigated in connection \gambling control from the sheriffs article of this series. The Times Mr. Hacker was nationally known THE HUSBAND, a driver 1cr; When legalities at the opening with a widespread safe-cracking| {and city police departments in the thought maybe the standard might n social work circles. As one of his Stewart Motor Sales, is somewh~1e session yesterday delayed the chil- ring. Held with Derrett in the auto | state poice ) be too rigid, so just so sée how it first contributions as a member of in Michigan. Police said they wu'ild dren's testimony, SPCA officials took banditry and burglary case is Dale But it irks and embarrasses them would effect the results, they dou- '® Indianapolis School staff he enlist the aid of Michigan police to them to a show and dinner. Finch, 35, who is still out on $2500 to have to wait for a local call for bled it,’ Mote than a third of the worked for the passage of the first find him and hurry him to his wife's The children who will testify are yong and $2000 in another case {hel before they can move into cer utensils still “qualified” as being child labor law in Indiana. side. Barbara Manion, 12, of 5112 W. hth of which are awaiting trial % her situatibas. ere thoroughly dirty and unsafe In the “Back to School” movement Officers Dale Crittenden and Beecher St.; Philip Arnold, 10, and 7. prosecutor's office explained | . One utensil out of five had 10. - James Fox were in charge of police his brother, Edward, 11, of 5206 W. that the Derrett and Pinel! cases Fears Trouble Ahead Himes ‘or mere the humber of bac (Continued on Page 4—Column 1) investigation. Naomi St.;- Barbara Minton, 14, of oe Now, with rumors that Indianteria on it than the mafimum cons | > . pene :. ae ao 01056 LeGrande St; Gerald Minton, (Continued on Page 5—Column 6) apolis gamblers thinking of taking e 6, brother of Barbara, and Phyllis rn nme , . the invigorating country air, MarSiered als bY Jhe USPHS. bath McKinney to Be Fire Chief: Minton, sister of Gerald and Bar- . i lon County heads for trouble, the as bara. WE 0 irect |gaming set fears. The county is the | Al Township SISTER-IN-LAW — Mrs, Ro-

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attend Wayne DISAPPOINTED — Joseph IV — Mrs (state police depArtment's back yard, School 13, on 8. Lynhurst Drive. Conti, Richmond veteran, is land Conti, Jog's sister-in-law, [so to speak.

| They were excused from school to doing his best to clear up the and Ingeborg are girlhood | Already one gambling spot 's re{answer subpenas to testify. iS | legal tangle so that his sweet- friends. It was through her that [ported to be in full swing within st —— heart may join him. the love story began. ~ hollering distance of a state police

|official's home. Another site which {reportedly looks good to one of ne

i a sses, w * ° mes out he cous wor an J ONINSON New City Engineer larmi . | aang Jomwe | 34-Year Veteran of Force Succeeds Fulmer;

Fewer than one. third of the] Cheated Death Thrice in Fighting Blazes

glasses tested would have been safe to drink out of by USPHS stand-| pg x Two more positions in Mayor-elect Al Feeney's official family afe Paris Train Wrecked ard, which is playing with fire to filled. ‘Roscoe A. McKinney will be fire chief and M. G. (Ole) John-

ards. By The Times’ doubled stand- ' a) . y " =» . on ® , MONTLUCON, France; Dec. 11|prominent trial lawyer, today was WwW in 4 % N; say othe least, still only half the 500 Will be city engineer. Both will take office Jan. 1. (UP)—A Paris-to-Montlucon ex- named chief of counsel to defend i in as ing on oug | Hogs, Is dn * mile of the state 2 i “ "1 i i i | police hea rters. glasses would be safe. And nearly Mr. McKinney, recognized as a “fire eater by his associates in the press train crashed into a freight four high state ie ° " 40 per cent of them were 10 times dePartment, will succeed Harry H. Fulmer, who has reached the re- train near here today, killing one . a police fees er To Unit Ex-Gl German Gir Far oy Se tata police board Or more over the maximum safe ‘irement age. The next chief has been first assistant chief since 1937 person and injuring six Montgomery county indictment for e. 9 \aren’t talking about the reports of “eount. {and his insistance on getting into, ——— | conspiracy.

Ee — A . {a change which would enable the 2» the thick of the flames has brought van, He has been a practicing con- MENUS FOR WEEK— Maj. Robert O'Neal and Capts | troopers to clean up their own back WHAT'S a few bugs more or less? him near death on numerous

Charles A. Lowe of Lawrenceburg,

Richmond Veteran Makes Plea as Fraulein

in- i ; . . ich would enable them in-isulting engineer and served as tech- ® Today is the 4ay for Mera |[JOhn Barton, Kermit Lewis and |yard. Or wh Who said anything about a few? stances. [nical adviser to the Indianapolis | Given's menus of the week. |Robert Bush were charged by a Is Halted by U.S. Consul in Berlin [to clean up a couple of other yards These weren't just cases of being, Mr. Johnson, who will replace Post-War Planning Committee after | Also sfie makes a special Montgomery County Grand Jury An all-out effort was being made today to bring a Richmond where calls for help have been mys-

A few bugs over the count. Compare Thomas R. Jacobi, was city engithat 100 limit of safety, for example, neer during the Democratic admin-/ a with glasses in one tavern which istration of Mayor Reginald Sulli- (Continued on Page 5—Colum showed a range of 4000 to 6000. |

These bacteria weren't all ~ Robert C. R

offer of a booklet on buffet With conspiring to cause another veteran and his German sweetheart to a Hoosier altar by Christmas. teriously lacking. | dinners : [trooper to take a bribe State Department officials, Rep. Ralph Harvey and Horace Coats, | n 3) (Turn to Page 31) The charge grew out of an at- secretary to Sen. William Jenner, were seeking to disentangle red tape the report down to times and dates, iaqreins {tempt by the officers to check up on to bring the 25-year-old German girl, Ingeborg Schluter, to Richmond efther, but he did say this morning: a complaint by a Bloomington con- for the postponed wedding with her lover-by-mail, Joseph J. Conti. | “There will undoubtedly be an the glass, remember. * They were! so eeerm—

tractor that the officer and an as-| Ingeborg, ready to board a plane — early reconsideration of present Just on the rims, the part you put!

6 y jsociate were attempting to shake for the Hoosier city and wedding decision for Ingeborg’s permit to gambling policies.” in your mouth when you sip your| | m a Ve Me ow Man To qa {him down. bells, was stopped by U. 8. consular travel, and consequently the wed-| beer or highball. y— Announcement of Mr, Lowe's ap- officials in Berlin... The reason Is ding itself, rests in the hands of Siamese Twins Off If counts of thousands of bacteria {pointment to handle the troopers’ not clear. the U. 8 consul in the German

(Continued on Page ‘9—Column »Noel-Noel to Poor Unfortunates’ ee scumpanied. oy. So The girl's visa was in proper or- capital. Critical List

der, she had the plane fare, and! Those interested in seeing the| Armstrong, f Twelve-day-old Siamese twins stil Gl Ski NEW YORK, Dec. 11-Oh, a very mellow man to Andy May. Jail is not forever, Andrew, my Mg. police board president y el still oomy ies

§ | Joe had filled out the papers with couple united feel it is not a case! {wh - “ A " , , A am I this day, sore at no one, bubbling with holiday honest, non-smoking, clean-thinking Congressman, . 12d entered a temporary ep- ymquvic that he would marry her. of “mail-order wedding.” Joe's Inder observation at Riley Hospital spirits, sparkling like a rhinestone in‘ a shop girl's and everybody makes mistakes. You know what they To Produce Snow LOCAL TEMPERATURES |

serving as city engineer. He was the

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| pearance on behalf of the accused She was alsp ready to sign the bride-to-be “has good references.” |Are continuing to improve and have |natr, because Santa Claus is coming and I am Boing. say about bad companions, but today I am not even

Officers, {affidavit that she would go through - «1 just can't understand it.” Joe been removed from the critical list, ) | It also confirmed earlier reports attaches said today. I am going to tie the typewriter around the sore at your fellow business associates, the Garssons.|

ith th tract but the g , that a powerhouse legal staff was with the marriage contr | declared today as he postponed his

’ : . The twin sons of Mr. and Mrs. ~ 6am... 27 10am... 28 |[cODYbOy's neck and throw them both into the East In my temporary exultation, I place a benison ip, po assembled to fight what Col. officials would not let her sign wedding plans and conferred with Edward Speers, Bedford, are joined 7a.m.....?% 11a.m .. .. 2 River, for today is the day I start a vacation. You upon the brows of both Meyers—Johnny, without Robert Rossow, superintendent of Daniel M. Kidney, Times repre- his lawyer, James Ronald. “We together at the head. They were 8am... 28 12 (Noon) 28 Won't have to read it and I won't have to write it the final “8S.” and that noble warrior, Ma). Gen. : il i

: sentative in Washington, said the in- thought we had complied with all state police, has termed publicly a formation which he has gathered : . P “perversion of justice.” :

Mr. Lowe is immediate past presi- | Already this morning indicated the (Continued on Page 5—Column 1)

{for a whole two weeks. While there are ‘some who ——— {sneer and say my life is a song and I got a 365-day Gloomy skies will prevail through vacation every year, I put this down to either envy tomorrow, the weather man said to-|or stupidity and off I go, caroling into the blizzard. day. os In this new and benign mood, the good-will-Snow was expected to fall again toward-men is upon me, and this is the day I take tomorrow afternoon. [to hand a cheery Noel-Noel to all the poor unfortu-

taken to Riley after their birth in Ya.m..... 8

Bedford Hospital.

Bennett E. You have had your trouble this year, men, with that unreasonable committee, but be of $90) cheer. Juyhe Banta will bring you both & gent of the Indiana Bar Association ° ° | couple. of new dolls, : (and is widely regarded by the pro- 2 Ch jel $ Bl d C pl fession as an authority on trial! ! ren 0 in ou €

Stick to Crooning, Frankie

THE TIMES 1947

FORECAST: Partly cloudy and slightly colder tonight, low about 18. Ine reasing cloudiness and slightly colder tomorrow with snow at night. 3 BE —— 4 : Lae x * “ . . Fl pm re A eg seep PRICE FIVE CENTS 58th YEAR—NUMBER 236 . THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1947 Taman ng eet Shab poten | ro La

Col. Robert Rossow wouldn't pin

Highest temperature today was nates of the past season. Happy holiday, Lucky expected to be in the mid 30's while Luciano, as you sit and sulk and curse your ill tonight it was expected to fall as'fortune in Italy.

low as 18. Cash in Your Satchel

‘Times Index | THE PRESS has misunderstood you, and we all . — know you helped win the war, and you were illegally Amusements . 38 Obituaries ... 16 banished from your chosen country, which gave you Eddie Ash ... 40 Dr. O'Brien . 32 scars on the kisser and money in the satchel.

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