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take her back home. But he hit

Mann became Mrs. Reed today. after he hit the jackpot.

HAPPY HONEYMOON-Three days ago. Jack Reed. 24. Denver, Colo., dairyman, arrived at Westfield, N..J., with just enough money to marry Betty Mann, 24, an airline hostess, and"

Acme Telephoto. .

a $5100 radio quiz jackpot last

night ‘after a friend gave him two tickets fo the "Break the Bank" show. Besides the $5100, he won a three-week honeymoon at an exclusive Florida resort and an offer of a new job in Denver. Miss

The photo shows him kissing her

| Assumes Lifeti

the Biblical question: “Am 1 my

en Tm

Two Families Met Before

THE EXPENSIVE operations

Am | My Brother's Keeper?

ime of Debt

{To Answer Bible Question

Middle-Aged Accountant Helps Provide For Detroit Widow and Her 6 Children

DETROIT, Jan. 10—A middle-aged accountant assumed a virtual “etime of debt today because he said he felt he must answer “yes” to

brother's keeper?”

Ralph Seipel, 48, and his 52-year-old wifé, Jane, loved the six ‘children. of a widowed rieighbor so much they calmly accepted a Stoam debt they knew they could not pay off until old age. Mr, Seipel ignored material shortages and built & home with his phuibands oF (he Svgsting amily of Mis. Kiisiwtis Bains

ter; Ji < 5.

je load hospital bills while his wife spent 13 weeks at the little girls’ bedside.

the War

saved the girl's life, but left her

totally blind.. Although up to his ears in debt, Mr. Seipe] said ll he

wanted now was “to give Joan an education.” The two families met before the war when the Seipels moved near

Mrs. Denman’s home _in suburban Lincoln. Park.

When Mr, Denman

{ gridiron aces into actors—and the |latest is Johnny Lujack.

| or any other—history.

{the deal ahead of the field and

|$75:000.

died, the Seipels jumped in to help his family with Ralph's moderate»

Football Movie

Grid Star Holds Out § $100,000

By VIRGINIA MacPHERSON United Press Staff. Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 10—You § (don’t have to be an acte$sto crash i the movies any more. Just be the § 0 nation’s: No. 1 football star of the < season and you're in. OR Hollywood's hepped on turning 2

.Lujack, you'll remember, passed iio and quarterbacked Notre Dame to © {the “top this year. He also carved 'himself a spot as one of the great- | lest all-Americans in. Fighting Irish

Producer Sam Katzman dived into :

iwired - Lujack -an—offer to put--his |éareer at Notre Dame on the screen. Was he interested? Counters With $75,000 Lujack wired back he might be |—for $100,000. (Lujack’s running: mate, fullback [John Panelli, §&id 1 a phone con versation with The Times, the star quarterback has had the Hollywood. & offer under consideration since" the Irish left Los Angeles, but has net yet madé up his mind.)

Producer Katzman eoutitored tt 2IP—Hollywood" s latest in

At last reports, Lufack—probably| Niesen, Chicago model, is the

geal Army's Glenn Davis and Doc, zippered pocket Sewn into the Blanchard were lured into last year| garter hem.

‘Rescue Started 0f 780 Off Ship

Small Boats Carry Russians to Safety

TOKYO, Jan. 10 (UP)-—Small

|—was still holding out for the hun-|

dred grand. Mr. Katzmfan says he’s “consid-| ing. No other comment.” But if he doesn’t sign up “Mr. Quarterback” of 1947. some other studio's sure to. TEs bes SemY he style to snag football he: since some bright idea man Te oi discovered sport fans go to the movies, too. Davis and Blanchard, hauled {from their Jocker room to immorta

(ize themselves on ‘celluloid, ‘Were cois shuttled back and forth begreat on the gridiron, but mediocre tween their’ mother ships snd the

as movie stars. At that they hammed it up better than the pro-| eslogged Russian motorship fessional

tonight removing an three days.

camera. "But he has until June to think it over. After pacing the Irish to their first undefeated and untied season since Knute Rockne's last in 1930, he's knuckling down to textbooks to get ready for graduation.

mission Here from the scene of the rescue 200- miles east of northern Japan, were extremely | meager. Russian officials here indicated that full information on the makeup of |2 the Dvina's ‘passengers and crew

| boats from two Soviet naval yes-!

Dvina unger glaring searchlights 780 passengers > more

Detaiia Hitesing Sato. the Soviet

and on the rescue — one of the

—

income as a Ford Motor Co. accountant,

But in 1945, Mrs. Denman’s .troubles multiplied. Mr. Seipel fought an eviction notice against her, He mortgaged his own home up to the hilt to buy a vacant lot next door shortly after he returned from two

years in the South Pacific with the Navy.

Mr. Katzman isn’t the only producer who wants him. Allied ‘Artists Productions, Inc. are searching frantically for somebody to play Babe Ruth in their movie about the “Sultan of Swat.”

greatest in maritime * history—may not be made known for some time, if ‘ever, . Radio contact with a Soviet de-| stroyer and patrol. boat taking off|

_He started building a_house_on the lot, and even before it was

Fi he and his wife moved in and turned “their own home over

the Denmans. -

Thousands of Dollars in Bills

LAST JULY, the house was completed and Mrs. Denman moved

“Th with \hef: brood. “The Seipens

went back into their own home, |

“hich by ‘now: required-$170 a -month in. miortgage payments. .

Beipe!’s indebtedness. He started

nickel” of the huge debt.

“Then Jogn's illness added thousands of “dollars in bills to Mr.

bravely to pay off his numerous

treditors at the rate of $25 a month, vowing he'd pay back “every

| Yesterday, the welfare department, amazed at Mr. Seipel’s private charity, finally stepped in to take over several thousand dollars of |

the hospital bills.

© “We'll ‘have enough food,” he explained to the state officials, ‘and my wife is handy at sewing.” But to his friends In Lincoln Park, who ask why he has assumed Such a giant financial burden, Mr. Seipel smiles and says simply: “Sirice- Biblical times; the: question-has $t0od: ‘Am.1 my brother's. |

keeper? “I-believe the answer is yes."

I Shortage Probed Times State Serviee * EDINBURG, Jan. 10—A- shiortagt In excess of $10,000 at the Blue River Building and Loan Association of Edinburg was to be brought lo the attention of Prosecutor Robert Lybrook of Johnson - County today. The shortage was discovered by ®xaminers for the Indiana Depart-

ment of Financial Institutions when

8 Toutine, check was made several Weeks ago,

COUNTY "DRAWINGS—

eo It's & nine-team event for teams outside of Indianapolis, at Butler Field~ house, next Thursday, Friday and Saturday. ® Franklin Township,’ deJending champion, meets + Southport in the opening game.

Complete Schedule, Page 7

© Diféetors of the institution with | Mgets of about $170.000 immediately Called a meeting and decided upon A further audit by the George S| Olive=Co,, Indianapolis. The local firm set the amount, of | © shortage at above. $10,000 and] Placed it in the. accounts of Miss! Marjorie Mutz, former secretary, cording to Joe McCord, director Of the Indiana Department of FinMcial Institutions. The entire amount is covered by surance, the director added. The detailed audit by the Olive firm was Arranged to set the stage for a Claim to be filed with the insurance Company which bonded Miss Muts S———

Times Index

Por STAY ree pen. S THAT STAY. WB = srown, wine of Me es + 9 Hoosier Profile s sizes 10 fo 12! MW Boos ° a sree 8 urnishings, ‘1 astalrs arvev ei 14

Classifieg _ 12-13] ove ty B hn 10, Weather

Low of 2 Predicted For Mercury Tonight

The : Weather Bureau predicted cloudy skies for Indianapolis today and tonight, with slightly colder

temperatures tonight . ‘and tomorrow. ‘The lowest perature | expected tonight 1s 31, while the highest expected today i 35.

Mostly cloudy and was forecast for Indiana

tomorrow. It would slightly colder in the north east tonight, the’ Weather Burdau said. - LOCAL TEMPE Sam... 28 wa wa BA Tam... 0 a a 38 Sam... 28 18( ).. $4 fam... 32 Ipm. "3

“Ito the primary job of solving violent!

the passengers was infrequent, a | mission--spokesman--said, - “because | we know they.are ‘busy and don't wish to disturb them.’ U. 8. Tug on Way to Scene x Japanese ships are standing by.

—Lujack's- on thelr list of possibili-| ties. Wai Lujack's protaily the most screen-tested prospect in movie history. - From: September to Decem(ber he filled the newsreels every is route «0 the, Saturday with His fast, feinting A.U.8. Navy tug 1s en style. [The Dvina first “herself Hollywood figures it he can ait- lin: serious trouble, about 100 miles, {maneuver every big team in thes poyyaido in the. Pacific on! {country he can probably fool a lot weqnesday. An SOS said the Dvina of people as an actor. was drifting helplessly. with her; {engines knocked out by five feet

lof water in her hold. Homici e Bureau ! Subsequent reports said she had]

shipped another foot of witer and] that she was wallowing in heavy] Police ‘Here Act to Halt Increased Deaths

seas that sometimes pushed her| port rail under water. Nine ships were reported at or

enlarge its homicide investigation escort. division, it was reported today. In. addition to Japanese’ shipping]

slayings within the city; more de-|A U. S. destroyer also will be dis-| tectives are expectéd to be detatled patched if necessary, the Navy said.

Oil Strike Settled

crimes, | Police Chief Edward Rouls and, WASHINGTON, Jan. Detective Chief Jack O'Neal are ex-| The Department of Labor anpected to work out the details of the nounced today arn agreement has enlarged division next week. been reached settling the oil «trike At the present time a squad is/at Texas City, Tex., which has been detailed to the primary duty of in-|curtailing fuel shipments to New vestigating homicides. Englind and other northern states.

| Washington Calling— Slowdown on Aid to Europe

Hinted in Action by House

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10—House Foreign Affairs Committee may have slowed Marshall Plan to a walk while all eyes were on Senate committee hearings. House group voted—on party lines—to hold hearings on world-wide economic - recovery before considering European Recovery Plan, Republican members say there'll

, be hearings on Chinese and South American recovery; say they | want to “look over everything.”

with this” All Démocratic committee members urged that Marshall | Plan for Europe be acted on first. Senate comimttee is trying to work for raph 1 target date set | by Mr. Marshall.

No Talks of Rent Inereoses REPUBLICANS aren't talking about 5, 10 or 15 per oent went increases this election year. Reason: There are more tenants than | + However, most GOP leaders still‘ think rents should- go up for.

10 (UP)»|

1 5 7

Watts” Mind Competent,

| Who confessed in the slaying f an

comprehension’ to understand the [nature of the charges against atm | Judge Barger made the -¢uling| ‘after a hearing In SHeélby Ctreuit| — | Court, where Watts will go on trial], | Monday on a first-degree murder| charge in the shotgun slaying of} | Mrs. Mary Lois Burney last Novemn- | ber at Indianapolis. i Judge Barger . also ruled. - what ‘Watts had -sufficient comprehension ito understand the legal proceedings! if’ connection with the charge aad to make his own defense by testity-

-- Hing during the trial: "4 Report of Psychiatrists

Eotered us Second-Class M at Postoffice Indianapolis, Ind. Teenod Sally exvapt Sunday

Vor Fraud Cases Dismissed By Court

Judge Holds pe Contracts Looms

| | Lawyers Hint i At Amnesia Plea SHELBYVILLE, Ind, Jan. 10 | (UP)—Judge Harold Barger ruled]

today that Robert Austin Watts, 29, |

‘Indianapolis woman, has sufficient]

| |

PRICE FIVE CENTS

Our Fair City—

Full-Scale Inquiry

Of 1947 City Spending

Reaction of Former Officials Is ‘Politics’; "Gates Popular With GOP Candidates

“== With this, its debut, "Qur Fair City,” a néw, exclusive feature written by reporters of The Times, scored heavily today when it predicted in the Capital Edition this merning that Judge W. D. Bain would dismiss all election fraud indictments growing out of last spring's primary, The judge acted in Criminal Court several hours after the first: edition of The Times was printed. See story In next column. “Our Fair City” will be a regular Batlirday feature of The Times.

OFFICIALS OF THE new city ~Iinistration say the full extent-of ‘the city's financial embarrassment has not vet been determined. Reason is bookkeepers have not yet been able to untangle the spending records of three major departments, because.unpaid bills are still coming in . . .

and the city cannot pay ‘them. A full-blown investiga-" tion of 1947 spending and contracts is shaping up. Reaction of for. mer officials to the threatened probe: “Politics.” . sn » ~ - . The sharp, verbal tiff between Mayor Feeney and Attorney Henry

| . The ruling was given on the basis 0, Goett at the Indianapolis Rent Advisory Board meeting Thursday

[hotles Shown. above by fice [PL aage by psychia-| wanted to know what business the mayor had sticking his nese inte

| trists who found Watts sane.

remembering the one-shot movie thinnest of nylons with a scarlet*{- Two more rulings will be made

'before-the trial opens, both on de-|

{fense motions, One was to quash | ~| the indictment, the other to stp press evidence, Watts’ attorneys, Warren Brown of Shelbyville and Henry Perry of Indianapolis, gave a hint that they|. might bage Watts’ defense on am-| nesia. - They questioned Drs. E.| Verngn Hahn -and - M y De-| Armond,” Indianapolis - psychiatrists, on-whether the doctors had cousidered “the amnesia angle.” :

Father Kills Son With Electric Iron

MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan. 10 (UP)

divorced wife’s refusal to resmarry’ him, police Police charged Michael Orlando, y with murder when his son, Paul, ‘died . in a hospital emergency room without regaining consciousness.

ported. by hospital attendants as

| “very low” following an emergency| Gates’ “blessing” after Lt. Gov. “Dick” James ahnounced for the job

| operation for a crushed skull, | bruises and lacerations.

Engineer Trapped, 63 Hurt in Wreck

- Boston Train: JompE

Track at Station BOSTON, Jan. 10 (UP)—An| engineer was (rapped and injured | perhaps fatally and 63 passengers | were hurt today when a “four-car|- | Providence-to-Boston train. jumped {the track at the. Back. Bay station | {and the locomotive overturned,

an trate Ihe ad Sue ot his

in Bt of hererk Jeslouey at. his a

The other son, Michael, 5, was re-| LOOKking for Governor’ s Blessing".

i conference last Monday was the start of a platy drive to out Sn house_temperatires to the minimum for comfort.

. Hospitalized in: critical A

was John Moorehead of Providence," snd hold-ups. ~ Big problem yet unsolved isthe wave of burglaries, Inear the rescue scene. The Soviet! {R. I. He first was described by the] unprecedented in recent years, Detectives are sure it's thé work of & ‘mission sald four Russian vessels: N¢W Haven railroad as a novice) smart gang from out;of-town. . there included two patrol boats, one| Put later it develdped tHat he was, new homes in the eity- and county last year, . The Police Departinent plans ‘to|tanker and ‘a destroyer or destroyer | vy expert engineer on an inspection! pyjld 5000. more next year, .

|" While a Catholic priest stood be- |

crews with acetylene torches cut through steel plates that pinioned | Mr. “Moorehead in‘ the locomotive! cab. Mr, 15 minutes. Dr. Joseph Pandofino| shape” and might not recover. Hurled Through Window | Commuters aboard . the packed Several women fainted and were!

ing to escape. | bruises.

what passengers sald was an un{usually high rate of speed.

‘tion platform roof.

Mr, Moorehead was sitting.

station walls.

rain,

Specialist Ends Visi

MOSCOW, Jan. 10

or ¢ he

had its origin in Democratic factional ‘feudin’ and fussin’. Mr. Goett

the rent board’s meeting . Gates.

+ + Since the board was named by Gov. “Because the board invited me.” retorted the Mayor. Never-

Judge Finds Hector Laws

Do Not Apply

Ruling Bears Out Times' Prediction

By NOBLE REED All indictments charging 39 local election officials with violation of state balloting laws in the 1946 primary | were ‘dismissed ° in Criminal \Court 1 today; :

Judge W. D. Bain upheld a defense motion to quash the indict

{ment on a series of legal technicali-

ties,

theless, both opposed the board's majority decision to recommend tion

a rent boost of 25 per cent. Split in the board over this decision follows- party lines. Prominent local Democrats are pulling strings Mn Washington to have the local board's recommendation denied.

Mayor Feeney himself had the tenants’ reaction to proposed increase. |

He pays $60 a month for his apartment under OPA. “Why 25 per cent Il boost my rent fo $75 and I just redecorated the place

myself, sald he.

Feeney Has Stacks of Mail “~~ MAYOR His announcement he would open citizens’ letters personally has brought an avalanche of mail . . . which he opens with a watch-chain penknife, N "One letter he prizes came from a Columbia Club member thanking ‘the Mayor for bi up double parking in front of the club. The She. Mayes oF resting wp double yaruing in rust of the sith. Fhe give the doorman four bits. « He learned his error when he got a nd, said lie was glad to pay it as long as he ‘were being enforced Inclosed 42 check.

answer: “I pay my stickers and my policemen pay theirs. Why can't you?" The Mayor's awareness of what goes on around town amazes his associates. Ome reason is he has contacts in every pert of town, mostly old friends. Another. is he's. assigried one of the police department's top flight homicide detectives as a special investigator for the city.

“ea

GOP GOBERNATORIAL aspirants are‘ jockéying for Gov.

this week. But the Governor passed: the wopd candidates are on their own. Democrats are beginning fo stir, too. They're, hing Henry Schricker’s white ht :

ahoitue-of ion ovase uunibety has een. 60 of to Sale Homan, |

FEENEY works from 7 to 1, aud) -duriag unch ones

fo law, under

Same old story of demand exceeding supply. Plenty of Hoosiers won't be driving their cars next year. Under the new licensing program, each | person must have his driving record checked before he can: get his 1948 driver's license. State officials are still worried about the fuel oil shortage, . A |

Reid Sells Bronxville Home

under the law, to eleng them selves.

HARRY REID, Indianapolis Railways, Inc, president has sold his Bronxville, N. Y., home. stone pn a corner lot with frontage on three streets, .He-lives in his | Indianapolis apartment.-, , . Shortly after word went out to bookies last week that the lid's on, a gaudy sign appeared above a bookie joint in W. Maryland St. - Sign sald: “Headquarters for All Sporting Events.” Rival bookies -squawked about unfair competition, The | sign is down, now. , with mass arrests of vagrants, definitely reduced downtown assaults

Residential builders erected 4286 . Predict they will .. Chief Rouls, incidentally, asks the public for help in reducing crime by--alert - reporting of suspicious persons .". . in return”police will help out the public in any kind

lin the area, the 1800-ton U. 8. Navy Side the wreck administering the of emergency. Just call To combat the growing numberof |, o corona was racing to the scene. | last rites of the church, emergency| —

Homebound Hoosier Brings,

Moorehead. was nea HUNGarian Singer as Bride

after being trapped for an hour aad|

Times State Servic MARTINSVILLE, Jan, 10—A Martinsviile youth who was a high

said the engineer was in “very bad school senior when he entered -the Army three years ago is due home | any day now, bringing as his bride a coloratura soprano who has sung

[in several European capitals,

train were hurled through windows. Casba of Budapest, Hungary, are en route haine from Germany.

trampled by other passengers striv- times trying to keep it clean until

Dozens 6f persons were given first they Set here” {aid at the scene for minor cuts and Arnold of Martinsvile, Cpl, :Sflver's = mother, - She admits being a bit The wreck occurred when _the excited at the prospect of meeting train rounded a slight curve at her new daughter-in-law.

| Thé locomotive veered suddenly acquainted with {to the right, ripping down seéveral singer. A former drillmaster of the steel beams that support thé sta- Martinsville High School band, and Then it fella piano student, he was taking over on its left side-on which {plano lessons at Bad Kissingen, The |Glermany, while serving with the | cars jusipes the tracks but were 316th Station Complement Squadron = mocrat: “Election will be over before we could finish | | preven rom overturning when of the U. 8. Alr- Force when he Suid us Democrat! “lect came to rest against the met Miss Casba.:

New HMaveri Railroad officials said 32 persons were on board the gisingen, Mra Amold was notified

(UP) —Dr,| November. |

{Ells Berven, - Swedish cancer| His first overseas service was with specialist, has completed ‘his mis- occupation forces in Japan. He was learned to- brought back for a year at Selfridge Teun. to Fleld, Mich, before beirig sent to mer Miss Margit Casha of Bu-

i i

The soldier, Cpl. Jamies C. Silver, and his wife, the former Margit

It was an ivy-covered residence of cut ]

Sgwiites should hate beets 3ptels fied ig each: of these indictments.

Also. wording

phasized . decision held that the the indictments listed

: First week of Police Chief Ed Rouls’ regime, fthese alleged, spurious signatures as {having been found on the poll books.

“It is--common- knowledge that poll books refer to lists of voters tised by by party precinct workers and that. the signatures referred to were actually on primary voting. lists,” Judge Bain sald. The judge emphasized that the decision in no way, will affect the legal status of .conducting the primary balloting here next May. “My . decision does mot hold any part of the ‘election laws unconsti~ tutional, he explained. : Times Prediction . - Here Is what was printed in the i editions of The Times today before Judge Bain made his ruling: “Courthouse insiders bet .the whole basket 'of primary. election fraud Indictments returned last

“I've torn up my house a dozen

says Mrs, Ray

It was through Cpl. Silver's fondness for music that he became the Budapest

They were marriéd Jast October n Bt. John's Church at Bad

that her son and bride would start home late in December. Cpl. Silver ‘will complete his Army service next N

" HOOSIERS BRIDE—The for:

Germany in October, 1048. dapest, Hungarian. national, re-

His bride, daughter of Mrs. Maria cently became the bride of Cpl.

iia of Budapest, ‘was sdfivated James C. Silver, sof of Mrs. |

La)

ie the Sunaarian oaphal +. Ray Avoid of

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spring against 39 officials will be thrown out of Criminal Court next week, | “They predict Judge W. D. Bain will sustain defense motions to quash all indictments. One reason. they say, is that the law under which indictments were drawn aoes not cover primary elections , .

nated, not elected.

that indictifiénts are so beoasiy drawn they don't specify what defendants did to break che law This, they say, violates defendants’ constitutional right to know what

‘today by. a man and woman who { fled in an automobile after robbing {him of $69. no ! amg oS eum. Job 312 W. Wi St. were a ae woman , through the police ' were.

2g i

eral balloting in Judge Bain sald, DART ~~ Falled; to’ Specify - In other words, Judge Bain held that the state election law as it is - now. written does not include primaries bécause the law is clear that “election can mean only general | balloting in which public officials

where candidates are simply aomis :

“Another, defense contention Is

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