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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1947

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58th YEAR—NUMBER 244

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‘Life of Terror’ in Juvenile Court

FIRST MILE — The Times Mile-O-Dimes went over the top yesterday and passersby started putting dimes on the second -mile to clothe needy children in Indianapolis this Christmas. A gentleman loaded down with packages makes his contribution. The drive will last until 3 p.m. Wednesday.

Planes Out of Gas

In both crashes, the airplanes ran| out of gas. In both the pilots were| near an airport after medium distance flights. Fate took four, left one. Both planes were en route to Indianapolis. A Civil Aeronautics Authority spokesman in Terre Haute identified the victims in the Stinson crash

. e———— RT —— RS A WN Photo, Page 12 Girl, 1, Reveals a ug As 4 . J-Power Unity As Jury Ends - oy | Lo | ly Terre Haute. [tiful 17-year-old girl who was driven |{two miles southeast of the Terre| A New Jersey truck driver, Mi-| By DONALD J. GONZALES ’ this morning. lin the week from Kennelworth, y : BROWNSTOWN, Dec, 20 \plane in W. 30 St. at 8 p. m. He tute in a downtown hotel after the| : . : : : peared in the offing today. a charge that he killed his direport the fatal crash at Terre man. 41. was freed by a Jackanother night of terror, ’ : ga o or ltion that complete unity is impos- returned a sealed verdict which + YESTERDAY the case came up| In his 2500-word radio report to Ober Analyzes near Ogilville, Ind. a minor. The truck driver was fined He told the jury during his 11-day (which authorities say is a clear cut; a The state had demanded the death 8t., ‘Kansas City, Mo. |Ciravolo is confronted with the| eadlock on the German and — and wounding Mr, Clark, B, RARE “true freedom” or “governmental the answers to the City budget g {free man. After a few seconds, Mr, Terre Haute airport by radio. to do. |unified Germany at this time,”

vi 3 oo vy - : , or $ a a » | fo 3 2 Fate rode the Hoosier air- - Re R v ; ) |! S 3 . Dead were four young meni; ymmorality by negligent parents In West Reich \ ss” § 12-Hour Dehate E | A | Ciravolo, 30, brought the| y 5 TT" > og 0 4 Spared was Reporter Jack Thon®b- N, J, WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (UP)—David E. Edman, 41, | |walked away from the crash with|proceeds from her coat and watch, . : This development came in vorced' wife with a shotgun. Haute. : . : ray son Circuit Court jury today of refused. So, Ciravolo said, { found Mr. Edman “not guilty” of in Juvenile Court. Judge Joseph O.'the American people on failure of Mr. Edman was arrested in Tulsa, . $500 and sentenced to 180 days in the split between the Western De- Snarls Nn Budget trial that Mrs. Edman was shot. acpenalty on the basis of testimony Steve Student Jr, Coaldale, Pa. ossibility of a black future in jail Austrian treaties, Mr. Marshall held Their bodies were identified bY) detained at Juvenile Center for ex- B 0 prevail complex today. Tears streamed down Mr, Edman's Hall will wind up 1947 in the black| No one heard the plane smash l “We. mus

~ . > . I f lanes last night, taking four {who attempted to crash land their unfolded today after her appearance ! Calls East-West Plans to Resume ° {Haute airport shortly after 10 p. m.|chael hol : : > BB To Ron. / : json of The Indianapolis Times who| Ciravolo admitted to the court| (UP)—Three-power “unifica once-wealthy war contractor, | {minor bruises and was on duty. 8t/which he made her pawn, were exthe wake of Secretary of A Jackson Circuit Court jury de5 il the East-West struggle 2a charge that he killed his diturned her in to the police on sible .until the Eas slaying Mrs. Ruth Clark — o Hoffman found Ciravolo guilty of the London Big Four Conference, Okla;, two days after the shooting the state farm, |mocracies and Communist Russia Is cidentally as both hunted a prowler, Shows How City “Last of Three Articles |by Mrs. Edman’s father, Nate Clark, . " d, Pa. — Charles J. Fassier Jr., Penfiel |for white slavery. | no hope for European stability until | personal papers. The Stinson cabin amination and further investiga-|'Yr®nnY’ De Best Wo orf He showed The Times a. new bal- fagp 23 he heard a deputy clerk {Edman grasped the hands of his This is the startling story of the Secretary of State said into the earth a few minutes after

| : °. Times Reporter " ; lives and sparing one in air- ob By JACK THOMPSON as: By RICHARD LEWIS 69, that Mr. Edman fired a shotgun plane was reported missing after tion, Authorities say she has no read the verdict that made him a es not pay all its bills untill oi eormeys, Taylor Hoflar and

Survives Wreck Here rT Fo aM | pe Marshall Sees Sobs With Joy plane crashes here and at THE TRAGIC STORY of a beau{Stinson cabin plane in a farm field in Juvenile Court yesterday. . el : Split ‘Clear-Cut Contracting Business |yesterday. Their bodies were found [slight blue-eyed brunet here earlier crash landed his U. S. Army AT-6 he forced the girl to act as a prosti-|¢; Tegteyn Cer r ap- : tion of Western Germany ap- {was freed by a jury today on |The Times this morning to nhelp|hausted. ACQUITTED—David E. EdiState George C. Marshall's. asser- liberated moré than 12 hours and har bei i i wnovery 1s resolved.) vorced wife, Ruth, 39, charges of ng a prostitute, |over European recovery is resolved. : last Feb. 13 at her father's h contributing to the delinquency of Mr. Marshall said last night that near his luxurious country estate. : The FBI has entered the case . jear-cut” for the immediate fu-| Demand Death Penalty A ndot } | . ‘ ’ William P. Student, 3331 Wya | violation of the Mann Act. Thus,| gaming the Soviet Union for the! will Be Out of Red | deliberately, killi Raymond P. Zielinski, 614 Avenue . » 0 ope been determined whether| Cily Controller Ceril S. Ober had y, killing his former wife MEANWHILE, the girl is being '* i ance sheet which indicates that City| 9 p. m. when it tried to locate the place to go and doesn’t know what| “IHiext year

PAVING JOB — Paving Washington St. with silver looks something like this when you get as close to the Mile-O-Dimes paving job as Miss Irene Pedlow. Now in its second mile, the Christmas fund now exceeds $8976 and is going strong. Each dime helps clothe a needy child.

820 Get Clothes, Hundreds in Need g

National Malleable Outfits 48 Children

By ART WRIGHT ‘| THE TIMES CLOTHE-A-CHILD today neared the 1000 mark in its current task of providing warm § clothing for Indianapolis’ neediest § children. If kind-hearted residents increase their donations over the week-end; § the number of youngsters who will face a happier Christmas will go well over 1000. ; How many of the hundreds more will receive clothing depends upon the response within the next few days . . . either by cash donations brought or sent to The Times—by the Mile-O-Dimes on W. Washington St.—or by individuals and organizations that take children to the stores to outfit them.

CONFERENCE — Fire Chief Harry Fulmer (right) chats with his men on the Mile-O-Dimes. Left to right are Lee Fulmer, Capt. Paul Boling, Paul Jolliff and Louis Bauer, members of the Firemen's American Legion Post 46. The post is manning the Mile, donating the time of the men on their off days.

” ” - ¢ THE TOTAL outfitted through Clothe-A-Child this Christmas sea-! son was 820 children last night! when local stores closed. One hun-| bred and twenty-three were clothed yesterday. It was a big day for individuals and groups who were hosts to the!

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past of this girl that unraveled it-/do the best we can In the area

| The City, he said, will be able to

{Thomas H. Branaman, thanked the

a flight from St.’ Louis, Mo, to Indiana, -

.|on a hunch and found the wreckage

| [for clearance to land at Weir Cook

the pilot had radioed the Civil Aeronautics Administration's control] tower at Hulman Field, two miles| northwest of the crash scene. But| Farmer Lloyd Ellis heard a radio] broadcast this morning telling of!

a plane that was hours overdue on

Farmer Finds Wreckage Mr. Ellis strolled over his farm

of the blue Stinson cabin plane strewn over the snow in a wooded area. A wrist-watch on one of the victims had stopped at 10:03 o'clock. An hour before that, a pilot had| messaged Hulman Field that he wanted to land at Terre Haute because of fog and a low gasoline supply. Messages between the tower and the plane covered a period of almost an hour, the CAA said, but the plane never landed. Fearing a crash or emergency {landing, the CAA sent out a three-

self during testimony in Juvenile Court. It was learned she was living with her ‘mother and stepfather in (Continued on Page 2—Column 3)

Truman Pushes

Fight on Prices

Battle to Continue Until '48 Campaign {Another Congress Story, Page 12) By LYLE C. VILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec, 20—President Truman is preparing a new wage-price control and rationing offensive against the Republican

Congress. The offensive wil continue right

[state alarm and search planes were| preparing to go up when word came| that Ellis had discovered the wreck- | age and bodies. { A flight plan map in the plane

#1 (had a circle around Columbus, O.,

{and authorities believed that was {'its destination.

| Tanks Found Empty

into the presidential campaign. Democrats believe they found the issue on which to ‘ick the GOP next year. It is high prices. Mr. Truman's counter-move, to the stop-gap anti-inflation bill passed before Congress adjourned last night is coming in his annual

| message to be submitted the second |,

| CAA Technician M. E. Walker said | week of January, if not sooner.

in Terre Haute that the Stinson|

He is expected to demand again

|crashed after its gas supply was ex- authority for compulsory anti-in-hausted. The plane did not catch | flation action.

fire and its tanks were empty, he| said. In the Indianapolis crash, Reporter Thompson said his AT-6 ‘ran out of gas as he was waiting

Municipal airport to complete a training flight he was taking on his day off between here ard Youngstown, O. . He had been delayed in Youngstown by a défective fuel pump. When both fuel tanks were exhausted, Mr. Thompson headed for a field on W. 30th St. near Ind. | 34. The ship's wings clipped the {treetops gliding in at 90 miles per ‘hour and the plane crashed on the road, . Mr. Thompson received a bruise

over the right eye.

Set Arraignment Date for Meyers

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (UP)~— Government prosecutors today ten-

THE TIMES 1947 Mile-O-Dimes ®

. + » has gone “Over-the-top” for the second consecutive year! -Over 60 full lines of dimes, each 88 feet | long, are now down . .. for a total in excess of

$9000.00 ®The Times MILE-O-DIMES is located on the sidewalk in W. Washington | in front of the L, 8. Ayres Co. and 8. 8. Kresge Co. Tt

Given Two Weeks to Decide What to Do,

They Face Prosecution If They Reject Them By JOEL S. REAM, United Press Staff Correspondent

were born joined tgether at the tops of their skulls.

‘would be ready to leave James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children.

Parents Risk Brush With Law Over Fate of Siamese Twins

Dr. Donald Casely, director of the Indiang University Medical Cen-| was retired two years ago, already ter, said that if the twins continued to thrive for those two weeks, they has been stripped of His $650 month-

tatively set Jan. 7 for the arraignment on perjury charges of Ma). Gen. Bennett E. Meyers. He faces a maximum prison sentence of 60 years if he is convicted. The 52-year-old retired ‘Air Force procurement officer was indicted by | a Federal Grand Jury late yester-| day on six counts of perjury and |

Mr. and Mrs. Edward R. Speer of Bedford, Ind., toddy. had only subornation of perjury. He will be| two weeks to decide what to do about their Siamese twifi sons who arraigned here,

The Buffalo-born general, who

|ly pension and his service medals.

will be open 24 hours a day until 6 p. m' Christmas Eve and manned by members of the American Legion Firemen's Post 42 during off- | duty hours. Every dime [tion would certainly be fatal since goes tp clothe a needy child.

@ Stop by and add YOUR

| will never take the twins home—or|

are still joined.

need.

But the Speers insist that they| yr Speer, a 31-year-old mod-

estly-paid accountant for the Naval even look at them—so long as they genst at Crane, Ind., said he and!

y |his 27-year-old wife could not af-| But doctors said that an, opera- ford the special care the babieg

the same brain tissue runs through “We couldn't possibly take om

In a surprise move, the Grand Jury also returned a three-count perjury indictment against Bleriot H. LaMarre, the self-styled “dummy” president of Aviation Electric |Corp.,, Vandalia, O.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

inot give authority to conduct a successful fnti-inflation program,” the Deno- | cratic National Committee -ald to- think, day. in what probably will be one of proposal the Western Powers agreed the party's 1948 campaign slogans: upon,” Mr, Marshall said. Too little and too late. f

“The Republican strategists will the President sufficient

The committee summed it up

Republicans were worried as Con-

gress adjourned. High prices have hostility and opposition to the Eua térrific tmpact. on the voters. If -ropean recovery program.” the voluntary anti-inflation meas-

ures voted by Congress do not haul prices down, there will be great pressure for further legislation, The 80th congress meets Jan. 6 for its regular second session. If prices continue to spiral into 1948, the White House will have Congress in a bad way on the cost.of living issue.

Washington Calling— Truman to As For Spending

President Will Seek $34.5 Billion for Use at | Home and $5.5 Billion for Other Countries WASHINGTON, Dec. 20—President Truman's budget for new fiscal year will nudge $40 billion.

Last year’s was $37.5

some—how much is still in dispute.

This year President will

abroad, $34.5 billions for spending at hone.

er for two reasons: Foreign aid figure is $2 request. For instance: Average

$538.55. Last year it was $780.56. it'll be higher.

items are for national defense, ve

And inflation has forced up costs.

dier in uniform was $465.25 in 1944,

House Appropriations Committee has 30 men, in addition to regu- Books lar staff, combing departments for plates to cut. budget cost of general government was set at only $1.3 billion

{where our influence can be felt.” jurors and the judge, and walked Diplomatic officials said Mr. Marshall’s remarks forecast American-British-French talks on merger of their three zdnes of Germany. They | said he does not believe It possible ‘to attempt negotiation of a threenation peace treaty with Western

|do business as usual on the basis | from the courtroom.

of a $750,000 tax anticipation loan| ro : until next spring's taxes are tole pra Joputied. the: Ny of, aire lected. ’ : a townshi “That's the way the city's fi aoquitial iD thyaiee Voted 7 5 for nances always have been handled,”| r. Edman" « he said. “We're not doing ANYHNINg po Winco Sard he youd. dewiin different than has been done in the yi trade as an electrical esas

Germany. | past, PB : an Unification of the three Western, «Borrowing from Peter to pay Will Visit California [zones 1s believed to be virtually the pay] is the only means of running| He sald he would now make plans [only method of bringing pressure 5 city” |for the education of his son, David on -Russia to agree to a settlement’ He added he wouldn't care to run C. 18. He said he expgcted to spend {on Germany. ja private business in that ménner, @ few days in Cincinnati, O., spend Merged for Year |but asserted this pattern of hand- Christmas holidays with his brother, The American and British zones ling City finances had béen set long 'E. R. Edman, in Winston-Salem, and have been merged for a year. before he took office July 1 und then go .to California for a long France so far has refused to join there was nothing he could do Visit with gther relatives. because of her objectionsito Ger- about it. | The jury received the case at § [man industrial potential. But Meanwhile, Mayor-elect AlP. m. yesterday. Judge George H. French Foreign Migister Georges Feeney, who has been studying the GosSman left the courthouse short|Bidault left the way open to an budget situation said he had only ly before midnight. He left in« | agreement after the London meet- one comment to make. structions that if the jury returned First Disclosure in Years ia verdict during the night, the ver-

{ing failed. | With the din of Soviet propa-| “I have an idea,” said he, "dict should be sealed for reading at : (9:30 a. m.

i in his ears, Mr. know how Old Mother Hubbard jenda sly Hneiog is «greatest felt when she went to that cup-| The verdict was returned after disappointment’ to him that the board" {more than 12 hours of deliberation Big Four Foreign Ministers failed Mr. Ober's frank statement to at 5:45 a. m. to reach accord at London. He de- The Times came after disclosures! Mr. Edman was missing when poIplored the “dreary repetition of of a $320000.error in the budget lice discovered the shootings. After what had been said and resaid and a cash deficit of $466,700 as of Nis arrest in Tulsa, a Bartholomew before” by Soviet Foreign Minister Dec, 13 | County Grand Jury indicted him on V. M. Molotov. To make his estimate of the ® charge of first degree murder. The oint-by-point accounting of city’s financial condition clear, the C25¢ Was sent to Brownstown on a In 3 Sinov yal to agree to| Controller showed The Times a|change of venue. jMr. Moly ve sigs) u 3ite the | financial statement of the City's Charged Married Life Stormy Soviet Union was balking on peace Position as of Dec. 15. The state tried to prove during settlements in the hope that it I Was the first time such a{the trial that the Edmans lived a could fill war-born “political vac- disclosue has been made in recent stormy married life until Mrs. EdGums” with commuhism. (years. Newspapers hitherto have man divorced him and went to live Complete Opposition (never been permitted to examine with her father nearby. ope » Conti 0% . Their son, upon whom Mr.. Ed« “it {8 for this very reason, I (Continued on Page 2—Column 7) nan lavished -luxuries, also dis=

that we encountered such ¢ |appeared the night of the shoot

complete opposition to almost every : ling. He wus found In Columbus as 0 dy Ind, next day and sald he had

"“The driven his father to Evansville, Ind. “(Story on Page 18)

Soviet Union has recognized the situation in its frank declaration of

During the trial, Mr. Edman contended he and Mrs. Edman were friendly despite their divorce. He said he went to the Clark home the (night of the shooting to investigate tee en | “NIO1SES” he thought were made by Washington and Shortridge were go prowler. to clash at: 3 p. mm. today He called his former wife to help at the Butler Fieldhouse for the him hunt the prowler, he said, and city high school basketball cham- during the search “something hit plonship. Two teams had eliminat- me on the head.” In the confusion ed semi-final foes this morning. bk sata he fired his. shotgun twice Shortridge held Howe to four ,ng later found Mrs Edman une points in the second half to eltm-', .... 0 0" e ground -{inate the Hornets, 32 to 17, in the Mr Edman said he fled in fear second game this morning while, 0" "004 be accused of the Washington surprised favored Tech shooting With a 50-33 Wouncing. Mr. Clark, the state’s chief witness, sald the shooting was intentional. He said Mr, Edman dragged Mrs. Edman into the yard of their Reopens Tomorrow home and that he followed and his Times State Correspondent | Mr. Edman’ with the butt. of another NASHVILLE, Dec. 20—Brown Sui County's famous Nashville House, | Mr, Edman made a small fortune rebuilt after a fire destroyed it sey- during the war as a contractor in |eral years ago, will reopen tomor- Winston-Salem. He divided his rOW. ime between there and OgilThe first guests, however, will be ville, where he remodeled Mrs. Edemployees and officials of the Ad- man’s family homestead info a prevance Independent Electrotype Co. tentious country: estate Wi pine.0f Indianapolis at a dinner tonight Paneled walls and uxurus fute at which W. A. Smith, president of nshngs: —— i the firm, and Mrs, Smith will be

oo 3 SHOPPING DAYS LEFY

Mr. Marshall said ‘he success of the administration's proposed $17 billion program would determine. whether the 16 non-Communist nas tions in Western Europe would be rehabilitated, “strong in forms of government which guarantee true freedont; opportunity tothe indi vidual, and protection against the ‘terror of governmental tyranny.”

k $40 Billion | _ During 1948 ‘Nashville House

billion. Republicans cut it

ask $5.5 billion for spending Total's high= “<

billion more than last year’s | A. J. Rogers, owner of the Nash {ville House, said the manager of [the hotel i§ Mrs. Charles Caldwell. | cost of maintaining one sol- |Z , In 1945 it was Times Index

This year it's way up, next year Amusements : 9 Mrs. Manners 2! Eddie Ash ... 16 Movies ..... 11 8 Radio wr 15 5-7!8ide Glances. 10 Big Classified . 13-14 Society Comics . 15 Sports .

But in last year’s Churches

terans, interest on public debt.

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both skulls. ’ | " “ | i of them as they are,” he said. “It ) Cr a { Furthermore, authorities said the, would J, oy a full-time! 6am... Nh 0am... - National Association of Manufacturers already is out with its own |Crossword ... 8Stranahan ..

Speers could be charged with non-| ; et | Tam... 2 "11a m. ... 36 |-Dbudget for federal government—totaling $30 billion. .It cuts national |Editorials ..... 10 Washington . 10 support if they refused fo take the| ¢ °F Placing them in an Insth-| oC ai... 21 12 (neem), 38 | defense §2 billion below Mr. Truman's last budget, cuts veterans $800 [Forum ....... 10| Weather Map 12| babies. : (Continued on Page 2—Column 4)’ 9a m..... 20 1pm... 38 r (Continued on Page 2—Column 5) Hoosier Profile 11| World Affairs

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