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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1947

EE i ~~ Gunman Gets + $2000 Loot in Paragon Bank

Bespectacled Bandit | Escapes in Auto Times State Service \ PARAGON, Dec. 12—An lunmasked bespectacled bandit robbed the Paragon branch of the Indiana Bank & Trust Co., of between $2500 and $3000 during the noon hour: today.

He escaped with an accomplice who had waited outside in a stolen automobile, It was the bank's third holdup in 20 yea: | Mrs. Lula Knoy, assistant cashier, | {who looked into a bandit's pistol for [the third time, remarked after the raid: The pair abandoned the stolen car several milés south of Paragon.| |State police believed the bandits! {headed north in another car. ‘tre abandoned car was stolen earlier to|day in Bloomington. |

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Photos by Henry Glesing, Times Staff Photographer, FATAL CRASH-—One man was killed and two women seriously injured today when a car crashed into the side of this truck at E. 10th St. and Arlington Ave., bowling the truck over. The truck driver was not hurt.

1 Dead, 2 Injured In E Side Crash

Auto Hits Big Truck |

At Dangerous Corner

The hazardous intersection of) 10th St. and Arlington Ave. claimed another victim today in a spectacu- | lar truck-auto crash. which was heard for blocks around. The loud crash was mistaken for| an explosion by persons living near the intersection. Early morning traffic on the main arteries had to, be re-routed as debris littered the

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{ Only Two Women in Bank | Only Mrs, Knoy and Ars. Meredith Vickrey, bookkeeper, were 'n ‘the bank when the robbery occurred, The cashier, R. N, Hendrickson, is employed in the main office at Martinsville. mr) Mrs. Knoy said the bandit, described as about 35 years old, well dressed and of dark complexion, 'first entered the bank and asked directions to the home of a Para‘gon resident. | He left and entered the coupe which had been parked in front of the bank with the second man at the wheel. 3 Hands Over Counter Cash | The pair drove around the block

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intersection and the overturned! semi-trailer blocked E. 10th St. [two or three times and then stopped Killed when his automobile] again. | crashed into a semi-trailer wag) When the stranger re-entered the,

bank, he produced a 45-caliber ‘automatic pistol and directed Mrs. ! Vickery to “Give me the cash.” The bookkeeper handed over the! counter cash, after which the bandid made her open the drawers to show that there was no money left. He ran out of the bank and fled in the waiting coupe. { State Troopers Alerted | Maj. Robert O'Neal ordered the State Police airplane, piloted hy

Lawrence Denton, 34, of 330 8. Gib-| son Ave. believed to be the driver of the car, Wife and Neighbor Hurt His wife, Clessie, and a neighbor,| Marshall Busby, 320 S. Gibson Ave.,| are in serious condition in Method- | ist Hospital. 1 Only witness to the accident able! to make a statement to police was [ the driver of the Trans-American bal La a ge : Bl CL Tone Leh Souja Jaf = thar, 91,75; VICTIM'S @AR—Lawrence Denton, 34, of 330 S. Gibson §t., wis killed when #476 {art . Smith, to join in the search, Mr. Stites sald he was driving his| crumpled car in which he was riding crashed ‘into the side of the truck. The two .{madioing information to (troopers

lodded truck east on 10th St. and injured women also were passengers in the car. alerted it ue Putisuville Jasper ed across Arlington Ave. — pt) ____ land headquarters posts.

with the green light. He said he Two Sides fo the Question— Loubaugh's Ple 1 | No description was obtained of

he dle of thy ie so] . Ie accomplice who waited in the ton wn ne wy ie pen co Qwymers of Eating Places : “are oy wit ve rt exert Ee eE on m, g € . Wel hed bh Board ence with bandits was when the . ! bank was held up in 1027. ‘ithe The trucker set his brakes just as Have Some Complaints, Too g y second holdup, as she recalled, was -the passenger car crashed into the ¢ . in 1930 or '31 rear of the cab, striking one of the Clean, Excellent Cafes Forced to Suffer Affidavit Blames Plea I ey od In Silence in Generally Deplorable Situation Of Guilty on Drugs ltaly Seizes 2 Soviets

gasoline drums. With the impact, the truck-trailer jackknifed, catching] Wh of aseriesr. —| An affidavit asserting that Ralph In Escape From Camp Lobaugh, 31, was under the in- FOGGIA, Italy, Dec. 12 (UP)—

the coupe in which the three per-| sons were riding up in the “v” of ROBERT BLOE Ye ig y Crushed Filth, contamination oi disease are free. fluence of drugs when he pleaded Police said yesterday they had arThe driver was thrown into the! Sanitation, cleanliness and other insurance against iliness are costly, guilty last ‘October to the murder rested Anton Kantabarov, 30, and intersection and a wheel of the both in money and in elbow grease. of three women in Ft. Wayne, was Danilo Mulisenko, two Russians > truck apparently passed over his The most dangerous illusion entertained by restaurant patrons is to be filed before the state clem- Who asserted they had escaped from Police sald the man was that the thickness of the steak, the size of the glass of beer is the final ency commission this afternoon. | concentration camp at Trani.

body. : : i crushed and that his lunch box measure of “getting your money's worth.” It isn't | . The sommmisiion will hear 10-1 Authositjes 2aid the Ruseians, who ich lay beside am was smashed| Despite the sickening condition of P— eb {baugh's plea for a stay of execu- Were arrested at Cerignola, were 8 wh y e d | |tion today. Lobaugh is under sen- suspected of being Communist

flat. [some restaurants and the bad 4 di he electric chair agents planted the Adriat} i _ |housekeeping in most of them, there aire S tence to die in the electric chalr ” anes on \oe Fame Momentum carried the tractor-| ping | coast to foment trouble among

| Michi i Feb. 9 on his trailer about 50 feet on into ‘10th are some excellent places, clean {4c Micitigan (ity | farmers. The two men were brought . W laces to eat here. They are being St. where it turned on its side. . The P The affidavit will be presented to to Foggia for further questioning.

. {guilty plea. esr was thrown about 10 feet away forced to suffer more or less in Goodrich Bros from the truck. |silence while the general sanitation . | the commission together with other

| the po pi ———— was average approaches but still falls {evidence by Lobaugh's attorneys, So great the impact that a ag ppr $1 800 000 Paid | hr es, a er I ’

door, a fender, hood and grill from far short of reasonable assurance }otzs of F%. ‘Wayne the ssenger C of safety. ii A . . [ he yne. Ti Tue RE ed. y = { For Big Grain Firm I Says Drug Inhaled ” and scattered for 10 feet around. | There is no excuse for a dirty. Purchase of the 97-year-old Googe} Mr. Behier: sid: tw; afidavil ets Year Nn Fraud Deputy Coroner Paul G. Dinta- restaurant or tavern. Yet the rich Brothers Co, Inc, of Win- stated that Lobaugh had been inman investigated the crash. operators of reasonably sanitary chester, Ind, for approximately haling & arug Festmbling benzadrine Safety officials said that the in. Places, both large and small, seem $1,800,000 was revealed today by a Nini jeveral ays belore oe sentenced to one to seven years in tersection is one of the mogt|to have some legitimate gripes in Samuel R. Harrell of Indianapolis a ¢ a any prison in Criminal Court 1 today hazardous on the East Side, because the generally deplorable situation! The company operates a chain of The Sadie Mr Ry oe at said. was When he was found guilty of obboth streets are wide main arteries here. 29 grain: elevators and 30 Farm. o.oo selon prisoner of Na taining $7000 in loans under false over which cars travel at a high| Take the taverns, for example. Service stores in northern Indiana, baugh uy szid Wo the drug had Pretenses. i rate of speed. |Actually no taverns were lumped ships some. five million bushels of \ "0 oie nts the a L The defendant, David McCain eee em Unto The Times’ sanitation scores. grain annually. and manufactures County Jail by relatives of other alias Fred Warner, 68, 333 N. DelArmed Robber “Hunted A number of places given thorough and distributes “Good-Rich” feeds. prisoners : aware St. was convistad on the inspection did serve beer and liquor, It was founded in 1850 by the The tellow risoner.. H 4 testimony of Morris Plan Corp offi Near Gates of Palace land did have bars, but generally father of the late Gov. James Davis, Pt ne he hig cials who said the bank lost $700 LONDON, Dec. 12 (UP)—Police Peaking the places inspected were Goodrich, and has ‘been operated Lobaugh Was under the a5, Gute in transactions with McCain today were hunting an armed pob- Primarily in the restaurant business. by stanly SoRtiirieusly sings of this drug at the time he appeared ssi . : no.R 8 ercy rich, his grandson, wi ; ping ug. Woe a MANY taverns, however, are continue as president of the com- is Supt to plead guilty and be Man Stabbed, Robbed within the shadow of the Bucking- ©N8aged unwillingly in a haphazard, PanY- SME Godse Bite 3 sha Dipped in Hot Water Of $1 20 by Pair ham Palace gates yesterday. jshpahed 00d LHe. They re Hanover ‘College, and. chairman o Davis said in the affidavit that a a Biliaz. 90, of 1832 Hillside Leaping from behind a tree in BEPECRE OF Te0 Et te to the board of directors of the Grain Lobaugh inhaled the drug after dip- Ave. Was stabbed ard’ robbed of Sliven, PIE, the. bandit shoved a I 1 | Dealers Mutual Insurance Co. of ping it in hot water and hot coffee, $120 last night, he fold police. pistol at Henry Collins and de- clo them up just because their Indianapolis. Mr. Buhler said that he had wit- Treated at General Hospital, he manded his wallet. (glasses aren't washed properly. It's “le Teoh 0 resident of Acme. Nsses Who would testify that Lo- told police that a man accosted him Mr. Collins handed. over 15 Much easier to do as some taverns , "~~ \baugh had acted peculiarly in court. Near 25th and Martindale Ave. depounds, 10 shillings ($61) he had 30. and oe serve su Viches ag a — | Among those the attorney will Tanding money. He said another “minding for his wife.” ’ id a resent as witnesses . man then stepped up behind him : .|fledged ‘eating establishment. Says Congress Stands Pp 5 Wiinesses beiore the com and plinged kite

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one cooking utensil, a loaf of Ee A ——— CLIFTON, N. J, Dec. 12 (UP)~-! ® . sen ramon x naawn ov IPM Outfits 31 Children

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 (UP)— bread, a couple of pounds of weiners! The Army said today that Gen. and some canned soup, he’s going to Dwight D. Ensenhower, army chief!find that tavern operator is having Sonny eccimends. oul Conglen C 4 ® . of staff, will turn over his post to little trouble keeping his “kitchen” easy [nas Y Ons In Clothe-A- hild Drive Gen. Omar N. Bradley in “late clean. {legislation for compulsory rationing Februa , i {of meat, wheat and other scarce : . . ry or early March, | THE SYSTEM of” gives supplies. Mouldings, Inc., Tops List of Donors in Yule (dishwashing a weight of only about| Sen. Baldwin told the Chamber of Surprise Treat for Indianapolis Needy : By ART WRIGHT

! f ———— Commerce here last night that ra- | (Continued on Page 4—Column 3) tioning should only be considered | : Thirty-one children who were Clothe-A-Child guests of employees of Mouldings, Inc, 741 E. Market St, will remember last" night for

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Comics ..... 47| Scherrer .... 26| » kiddies also saw Santa Claus, a surprise tre: p - _ Crossword .. 15! Side Giances. 26/ Neral arrangements were made to-| Pattern Service— ings committee, ptine 380 Arvansed i the Mow Editorials ... 26| Society ...... 28 day for Harry 8. Talmadge, 75, re-| @ Thrifty women use The The plant workers went over the donor so far this year, A donor is # Forum ...... 26] Sports 40-42 tired newspaper publisher who had Times patterns when making top in their Clothe-A-Child fund. an individual or organization which Gardening .. 31 Stranahan .. 40 lived here six years. clothes or accessories for |Lney exceeded the $1000 goal they takes one or more children to the| Meta Given.. 30 Teen Talk... 30; Mr. Talmadge, who died yester- the home. [set when Aft Waltz, one of thestores and with their own money| Hollywood ... 25| Washington . 26|day, was once owner and publisher |workers, presented the Clothe-A-'buys the clothing the children need.| . Inside Indpis. 25 Weather Map 17 of the Toledo (Ohio) Blade, Det- § TH patterns ar® |chig story to his fellow workers. | You, too, may arrange to be al Mrs. Manners 27, Wom. News 29-31 |tfoit Journal, Bridgeport (Conn.) | . BY As a result of last night's shop- donor by telephoning RI-3551 and Movies ..... . 38| Word-A-Day 25|Star-Times and Newark (N. J.) Turn to Page 9 {pihg. Mouldings employees had out- ht

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Indianapolis, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday ile

Feeney Names Captain Rouls As

Republican Appointed on Basis of Merit

No Strings Attached, Says Mayor-Elect

By EDWIN C. HEINKE Times City Editer

Police Capt. Edward D. 'Rouls was named chief of ‘police today. Democratic Mayor-elect Al {Feeney crossed party lines in ‘making his appointment, a

{procedure unprecedented in the {history of Indianapolis municipal ‘government.

| Capt. Rouls is a Republican | He is acting chief of detectives during the illness of Jesse P. Mc~ “murtry. “Eddie Rouls will be the boss of the police department. His author ity will never be challenged,” Mayor-elect Feeney said. “Rouls is going into his new job with no strings attached. There is no politics involved in this appointment. It is based solely on merit. | “It is a well-known fact that the police department {8 demoralized : and its morale at a low ebb, I feel be that this is due to the dangerous practice of political manipulation of MERIT PROMOTION—Captain Edward D. Pouls was named the force. chief of police today by Mayor-elect Al Feansy. | “Everyone knows that whenever a ly Tm ome gees" {new administration takes over and

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| 1ow, good d pol - Near Memphis; 20 Killed ~~~" " "0" ‘Hitchhiker’ May Have Been Aboard to Bring | "The line of least resistance

pd v would be to fellow precedent and Toll to 21; Ship Explodes in Open Field bole: eile emp B OLIAY J FOX. ed Pross Staff Correspondent {an astute politician. But with the MEMPHIS, THHA., Dec. ws Army iHivestightors sedrchied today safety of our citizens at stake and through the blackenad wreckage of a C-47 transport plane that crashed my campaign pledge in mind, I with a blinding flash near the Memphis Afrport last night—killing at have but one cholce—that of seleast 20 and possibly 21 Army officers and men. * {lecting a man for chief whose | The plane was coming in for a landing when it tore through a grove record indicates to the Board of of trees and exploded in an open fleld—three miles short of the landing ‘Safety and myself fhat he {s. the strip. Everyone aboard was killed! pessoas or (best qualified for the job without instantly. jana, one first lieutenant, and the | agard to political affiliation.” { {remainder enlisted men. Several] Popular with the rank and file of

Twenty bodies were recovered. | But Capt. Charles Carmichael, pub- Were described as convalescents in. police department, the 45-year-

lie relations officer for the 468th from the Letterman General Hos- iq graduate of the FBI special | Air Force base unit here, said other|Pital In San Francisco. school for municipal police officers ‘body parts had been found and Army authorities at Biggs Field was offered the job by Mayor-elect there may have been a 21st pas- Withheld the names on the pas- pesney last Sunday. |senger aboard. sepger list pending notification of gince his victory in the November | The total of 20 balanced with the Nex‘ of kin. election, Mayor-elect Feeney has Iplane’s manifest. But Base Surgeon wy the crash was Rot been besieged night and day by Capt. R. J. Goodall also said the, n, but Capt. Carmichael sald yarious aspirants for the job. All bodies were “so badly battered that weather was apparently not a fac- of the would-be chiefs of police tor. had their friends “go to bat” for Maj. Eugene Pitts of Clarksdale. them with Mr. Feeney. Manv of Miss, appointed emergency air them personally saw the mayorforce investigator at the scene, be-'slact and asked for the appointgan an ‘mmedia.® inquiry into the ment, , cause of the accident. None of those who turned their

4 . Searchers worked among the u..0dsides on h : {2 hitchhiker charred wreckage all night, using hance Mr. ap hag shightest

{ The plane was en route here from t hlight |Biggs Field, E1 Paso, Tex. on an povestul ful lights 10, 10g the Didn't Seek Job [administrative flizht. Its home base ciyii Asronautics Administration , CaP% Rouls did not see Mr. {was Aberdeen, Md ; officials declined to disclose the cone. Neither did anybody aetively intercede for him,

It was disclosed - that the victims were four ‘Army majors, two cap- (Continued on Page 4—Column 5) In fact, Capt, Rouls and Mayor-

- in— elect Feeney have had. occasion to Twins’ Heart

Light Snow Dug; i= fn ir i = . A IS, |dozen times in their lives, Systems Joined : Physicians at Riley Hospital today p announced that it has been difi- Cold to Remain

Capt. Rouls, who has eonfined nitely established that there is a LOCAL TEMPILRATURES

(there may be one other.” Some furlough papers were found near the plane, indicating that some lof the passengers were on their way home for Christmas. leaves. The | possible 21st victim might have been

himself to his work in the Police Department and who has never been a political worker, although he

simply when the announcement was

vascular connection between two- ga m..... 4 10am made: week-old Siamese twins under ob! 7a m.....%4 11am 2 | ‘ . ‘ri " wa sincerel rec confiservation at the hospital, 8am....24 12 (Noon). 28 | dence the A Dirscinle the placed This means that the infant boys 9am .... % lpm. ....9 |in me.

Light snow was predicted for n-| “I have the utmost respect for dianapolis and vicinity today and all the personnel in my department, the Weather Bureau sald it saw no and feel that, with their co~opera~ sign of warmer temperatures in the tion, we can easily adjust ourselves next few days. ° to meeting the problems of critical A high pressure area centering times.” As chief, Capt. Rauls will

over central Indiana was holding (Continued on “Page 8—Column 1) steady, ——— . - Clouds which darkened the sky were to continue tomorrow, High- Santa Faces Shortage est temperature expected today is Of Mechanical Toys 2 degrees and the mercury will WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 (UP)—If reach a minimum of 22 tonight, the you haven't done your Christmas {bureau said. shopping yet, you may find a short The coldest weather in the nation age of dolls, electric trains and |was centering over the Dakotas, mechanical toys when you, start | where temperatures as low as 3 scurrying through the ‘stores. {degrees below zero were recorded., The Commerce Department re{Miami had a high of 79 yesterday. ported today that many stores’ have Meanwhile, the bureau announced run out of these perennial favor. {winter would officially enter upon ites because of a mixup in placing

who are joined at the top of their skulls have a. circulatory system common to both, physicians said. | This discovery o strengthens the {earlier theory that an attempt to separate them might be fatal It was originally thought that separation might be. possible if the two had separate circulatory systems, Attaches sald physicians are still making tests, They are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Speers, Bedford,

THE TIMES 1047

Mile-O-Dimes

DAILY ESTIMATE ® At 8:30 a. m. today, 30% lines, slightly over half a

mile, or the scene at 10:43 a. m. Dec. 22, [their orders. $4525.40 Former Police Chief | "¢The Times MILE-O- Stricken With Pneumonia 10 SHOPPING DAYS LEFT DIMES | is located on the Clifford Beeker, former police EC. I

sidewalk in West Washing~ ton in front of the L. 8. Ayres Co. and 8. 8. Kresge Co. It 1s open 24 hours a day. It takes 60 lines of dimes, each 83 ft. long. to make a full MILE-O-DIMES — $3976.00 — every dime of which will go to clothe a needy child.

chief and now personnel director of {Red Cab Co. is reported {ll at his {home, 745 W. 32d St, with virus | pneumonia, 8, Mr. Beeker has been ill about five |weeks. His wife sald his condition] {is fair and that he has passed the| serious stage.

SENATOR'S FATHER DIES | ® Stop by and add YOUR PAWNEE CITY, Neb, Dec. 12 dime to this fast-growing | (UP)—D. E. Wherry, 85, lather of line. |Sen. Kenneth 8. Wherry (R. Nob.),| ; died here last night.

Police Chief

1s registered as a Republican, said

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