Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 January 1948 — Page 1

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1948

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| aiey Scowls { When Stassen Takes Stand

Accuser and Accused Come Face-to-Face

By FRED } MULLEN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan, 23—Harold g Stassen submitted memoranda

8 Pauley used “inside” information in making nearly $1 milYon in commodity trading. In a bitter and heated hearing before 2 Senate Apptopriations sub-

Mr. Pauley face to face. He sought fo show that there was a “pattern” fn Mr. Pauley’s commodity tradings on his alleged inside intion. He said-Mr, Pauley made pur-

ehases just before the government Cream Special yest into the market. eam and 25¢ Pauley Glowers

Mr. Pauley, special assistant to fhe Army Secretary, glowered at = Stassen under the harsh kleig

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loudsilk ..... 2.000 “at one point he interrupted the te Beau Cake. _15¢ Sarr —_rly sini lowed “10 face this man today” : os “pe Pauley has denied -thiat he hon Plate _—_ TGR Mc Puy hac dented tat ve through his government connec-| Spanish tons, : Peanuts “And then, as the hearing recessed ©. 20 for luncheon, Mr. Pauley shouted to Chairman er Ferguson (R. Mich): .

“I want to be given my day in court! Iam entitled to my eonstitutional rights to present a defense) to the false charges made by that man right there.”

' SLICES = er in shred-

[fl othe wheat market. ! “Temporary Drop” The memorandum said this caused 8 “mporary drop” in prices and Mr, Pauley purchased

of Mison'Sept. 22. The following ree, te

“extraordinary” amount of 23,-

He said that on Sept. 30 Mr Puiley then sold 100,000 bushels

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Kay Francis 11; Manager Is Held |

COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 23 (UP)— Kay Francis, stage -and movie ac-

Senate investigators today. in ant: = “to-support -his- charges that |-

tee, Mr. Stassen confronted|

“Wee trying to work that out,”| back.

at the “bottom would drop out”

-100,000} ¢ buibels3f wheat and 100,000 bushels!

Agriculture Departmiént purchased

Rooks Soy bushels of Wheat, Mixed Nu & result the price of grains 1» §9¢ J tmbed sharply” Mr, Stassen said.|

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Was in critical condition at a; here today and her stage ; Manager was booked by police on Hon of assault with infent to kill”

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Mitten on the Keys— How to Treat a Piano With GlovesOn

Photo by John Spickiemire, Times Staff Photographer.

AT TOWN HALL — Henry L. Scott, comedianpianist who appeared on the Indianapolis Town Hall series in the English Theater this. morning, struggles with

1 the split-second. problem._of donning. mittens while he's - | playing .a- piece. While. his audience -counts- aloud to

keep him on the" ball, his first attempt ends with a mitten in the air and Mr. Scott about to pounce on the keys again.

MOMENTARY RELIEF—His stringy red wig damp with sweat, Mr. Scott has a few seconds of relative calmness. He's got that left mitten on, and is now pounding out some Bars of ragtime bass while the audience continues counting. But a worse problem put on the right mitten,

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HOW TO GET ULCERS — Success almost in his |

mitts, Mr. Scott ‘has to obey the relentless ''one-two-three-four" of the audience's counting, and drops the other mitten. The mitten routine grew out of Mr. Scott's success in the early 1930's in giving entire recitals wearing mittens,

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l | healthy and too stout for my wife

' to manage.” His wife died in November. 1. *3% is probably unnecessary to,

he conceded to the

is coming. He has to

| where the bishop and his daughter

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\ matted gray hair was crawling with |10w in all of the city’s coal yards. The Allens had had a premonition

|} ever, that she expressed a desire

rgreat grandfater settled more than

Gen.

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Amish Bishop |

As Torturer | |

Chained Daughter For Last 10 Years

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GOSHEN, Ind, Jan. 23 (UP)—A grim white-bearded bishop of ‘he Amish Church today was sentenced to six months in the Indiana State Penal Farm after he pleaded guilty to keeping his 41-year-old daughter roped and chained to a filthy bed in an unlighted room for the past 10 years, Samuel D. Hochstettler, 75, whose word is absolute law among the Amish men in the area, sat with|his arms folded while Judge Aldo| “|J. Simpson questioned him and] sentenced him for assault and battery: " The bishop's face showed only dour righteousness while he gave | perfunctory answers and when he | Judge told him: “A man in your position and of your intelligence should know better than to commit such an in{human act.” “Knew No Other Way" During a 35-minute questioning period Bishop Hochstettler repeatied several times that he “knew of ino other way to care for her.” | He said that he had kept his daughter Lucy chained for the last three years and roped before that| because she was strong and

Photos 1 Henry Olesing,

Reported by Neighbor | today when. their new home burned. he family had lived in a late yesterday on charges of as-| sault and battery after a neigh{bor had reported him

In court today he still wore oe Oi Emer ene traditional Amish round hat. Sheriff Luther w. Yoder, who made the

arrest, said Bishop | Hochstettler readily admitted the | 0 ere § charges “and led him to the un-| ventilated and unlighted room; Dealers Ration Users

| where his daughter was chained to] “+ As Stocks Run Low said he went|

a bed. Sheriff Yoder to the farm. home seven miles Freezing weather ate into the east of ere after a neighbor re- city’s diminishing fuel supply, but ported he had heard chains rattling | heat merchants said today no real overhead during a visit to the house emergency faces the city yet.

The situation was:

By Early Morning Fire on Berwick St.

when the war ended.

Berwick St. while the dream home became a reality, This fall the modest house at 1633 Berwick was finished. family moved in. | an electric stove and new oil furONE: Oil - supply is -ctitically’ nace. The Allens were happy folk. {Wife died last November, .. enor And many Dr wre down’ ~ Today only charred upright tims: Crouched on Straw Tick {to just a few gallons. Dealers have bers were gaunt. reminders ‘of the The sheriff said he found Miss! {rationed users in-an effort to spread dream that came true and that fire | Hochstettler crouched on a straw out the supply. A citizens commit- destroyed. | tick covered with filthy bedclothes. tee has been set up by Mayor! A blaze swept the structure early, ‘hung-from:the-ceiling and [Feeney ‘but has wnnpunced no plans this—morning—and before firemen -the bedposts. from. Engine House 9 arrived. the He said she stared blankly. “rwo: Coal and coke supplies are tire was out of control.

| have lived alone sincé Hochstettler" 5;

Her|

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vermin and her wrists were grooved | [Many dealers are out of “smokeless™ of disaster yesterday, however. be- Times Staff Writer

where the chains had rubbed. Neighbors said Lucy was normal] {grades. Dealers are rationing cus- interior and they stayed with rela- | when she left high school 26 years | | tomers from one to two tons at a tives last night. [ago. Some of them recalled, how-| time: «Although the Allens were over the loss of their home. their children; Bobby, 5; Billy, "3, and Marilyn Lou, 2, missed most their pet dog “Beotty™

sick tin Watts for the Nov." Gas Lines ‘Gum Ww THREE: Citizens Gas & Coke [unity reports no threat of actual, {shortage of gas, but in at least one

at that time' to leave the Amish] church and the farm which her

A CHARRED DREAM x6! Robert Allen and his family 4 J ich ore:

tent last summer while Bishop Hochstettler Was jad] the house was being built. Left to tight &ré yr. Allen Pholdr ing Billy, 3: Mrs, Allen _holding Marilyn Lou, 2, 2, and Bobby, 5. The family dog, "Scotty," died i in the blaze.

Charred Ruins Mark Site Of Ex-Gl's Dream Home

Young Veteran and Family Made Homeless

It was a snug little home, with brand new furniture, |

Defense Rests In Murder Trial

State Begins. Rebuttal " On ‘Frame Up' Charge

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| Pinder, publisher

Refuses To Run For Presidency

Won't Hocept, States Letter

To Publisher

Field Wide Open In GOP Campaign

By LYLE.C. WILSON ied a Staff Correspondent WASHIN GTON, Jan. 23 — en,

Dwight D. Eisenhower finally and positively repudiated today efforts to nominate him for President. He told his Republican supporters that he “could not accept nomina= tion to -high political ofMce.” “I could not accept the nom-

der the remo circumstances

of the Manchester (N. H.) Union- Gen. Eisenhower

Leader. His announcement was in the form of a letter to Mr. Finder

{made public by the Army Depart-

ment, Stand Is Firm The Union-Leader was booming Gen. Eisenhower for President and a slate of Eisenhower delegates had been entered in. the New Hampshire presidential preference primary.

he would or would not be a candidate. He had disavowed political

~NEW “YORK, Jan, 233 (UP)—

and the

|coal but most. can. furnish other CAUSE A Minor. fire had damaged. the... SHELBY VILLE, 66 Jair

candidate for President” ambitions on many , but never until today with sufficient

force to persuade his admirers he really meant it. - Polls of ‘public opinion had indicated that—on the basis of present conditions—he would have swamped President Truman if he headed the November, His withdrawal probably will be counted a boost for the presidential ambitions . of Gov, Thomas E.

Like most ex-Gl's, Robert Allen dreamed about a homie of his own, Dewey of New York; whose political

appeal generally has been rated

Last summer, he and his famjly lived in a tent in the 1600 block of second only to the general's among

| potential Republican candidates. Advises Military The general accompanied his re-

Ey | fusal to run with a word of advice

to other professional military men. +14 was -that-except- under: the-most--extraordinary circumstances should stay out of politics. He said he always would be available to serve his country in a military capacity. “It is my conviction,” the general 'wrote to Mr. Pinder, “that the nec- | essary and wise subordination of the {military to civil power will be best

sustained, and our people will have.

greater confidence that it 1s 80 Sus-

The defense rested today in the first| tained, when lifelong professional degree murder trial of Robert Aus“ soldiers, in the absence of some 12 shotgun!obyious and overriding reason, abslaying of Mrs, Mary Lois Burney. stain from seeking high political The defense closed its case as the office” - accused completed almost three days

And that was that on the Ike-

of testimony: in which he denied for-President boom.

100 years ago. area orf the West Side heavy de- colty" stayed in the house over. the slaying and- portrayed -himself| ; a , night, He was killed in the fire. . mand has caused lines to “gum up,” “p00 STC TC as the victim-of a “frame.” : Huntington | Factory Imel making emergency service neces- Piremen, . working in the {rigid Immediately after Watts left the t b Fi : ye Tor several people with gas , = = freezing hoses, sprayed stand , the prosecution moved into) wep! nay ames Ti {furni high gear with rebuttals. INGTON, Jan, 23 (UP) tia Groves, state fuel oil co- waler ower We horse ad garage be. First withesses for the state were! —All fire: fighting resources battled Famed Bo S Town ordinator, said that he has re- door, preventing the blaze from State Police. officers who deniéd a fire ‘that began today in-a paint ceived a number of calls from spreading. . Watts’ stories of severe beatings, vat at the Majestic Co. and had: | people whe have run out of oil for {threats and intimidation. already destroyed “several hundred

Richard Dale Imel, the 14-year- | old boy who killed his stepmother {with a rifle at their home here last March 18, will spend the next four years at famed Boy's Town in Nebraska, Arrangements for the lad’s entrance to Boy's Town were com: pleted today by Judge Joseph’ © Hoffmann of Marion County ie | venile Court. Judge Hoffmann assumed _juris-| diction over the boy last October

when a jury in Morgan County « Tonight i in New Zero Wave

| Martinsville found the boy not guilty| {of ‘murder “because of temporary| Five below zero tonight. | LOCAL TEMPERATURES

furnace uses, but that so far dealers Have been able to come to their $250, 000 Fire at Peru aid with small supplies. | The local emergency committee, planned to establish a “hardship office” to receive telephone calls

PERU, Ind, Jan. 23 (UP)—The Robert Shields,

fire. today.

mon . estimated the loss (Continued - Page {Colm o building and its contents at $250,000.

ing - Watts’ confession Nov,

are completed. | Afrport at 7:30 a. m. ee ei on The boy shot his stepmother Temperatures recorded at the shiver and shake, the forecast " Mrs. Lilliam Imel, after she had| downtown weather bureau did not not encouraging. It will be cold reprimanded him severely for going! fall below six. again tomorrow night with a pos-| out with girls, A clear, calm atmosphere com- sible five above in the offing Sunday | Psychiatrists testified in court at bined with heavy city smog to pre morning. Martinsville that Richard was vent radiation of heat. .Residential Daytime

who was scheduled to die

temperatures today for

the killing, and the jury ruled that peratures such as those at the air-'to 15, but still will fall far short! The prosecutor's office he, should not stand - trial for|port. murder. If five below is hit tonight, it the year. Judge Hoffmann made the boy a will be just four degrees warmar A steady stream of cold air from, | nobis ward. of the court and gave custody than the all-time low fof Jan. 24/the Arctic pushed the nation’s A. Buhler. of him to his father, Joseph recorded in i936. ' The highest for latest cold wave across the entire Arthur Jual, who wil pay_800 athe same date was %, a ‘record set section of the country from the aside Lobaugh's plea SE ows 108 education is 0 [Rocky Mountains "to Atlantic, give him a chance to As Sadiniutyivs continues A * hy » oy wi.

& 0lCoust today.

granted a stay of execution until April 2 to Ralplt Lobaugh, confessed killer of three F\. Wayne women,

Judge Schannen granted an in definite stay after hearing a petition immediate attention to temporarily insane at the time of areas, however, experienced tem-|through ‘Sunday will rise possibly earlier move from Lobaugh.

of the normal 28 for this time of court that it needed more time to file replies-to a writ of error coram filed by Attorney Robert

The writ asks the court to set

Drop fo 5 Below Expected contact om Fis coun Golden Glovers

", Lobaugh h Granted

insanity at the time of the killing.” That is the weather bureau's pre- 12 (Mid,) . bis After more than two months of | diction. Tam, “ . om... negotiation. with Father Flanagan,| By morning Indianapolis. will be] 2am ...9 9a : 3 Execution ta MA Honlly known director of Boy's|in the very center of the current! 3 a.m. ... 8 10 a.m. .. i | Town, Judge Hoffmann arranged mass of cold air sweeping eastward. 4 a. m. 7 11am {for Richard to live at the institution Meanwhile a low of zero was re-| Sam ... 6 13 (Noon) . > . FT WAYNE 10d, Jn. 23 oon [at least until his high school studies | corded at Weir Cook Municipal 6am ... 8

Feb, 9.

told" the

First witness in the rebuttal per- thousand dollars” worth of plant fod was State Police Detective Sgt. materials, He testified that Redmon & Son Co. basket manu- he never struck, threatened or torfacturing plant was destroyed by tured Watts and he never. saw it the company’s main building would Manager Willard Red- done in his presence in any of these be saved. of the sixTday questioning periods preced-

Fire officials - said the fire was “under control” and that half of

The Majestic Co. manufactures {furnaces and building specialties

He also identified photographs as and employs about 200 ) people.

Battle Tonight—

@ Slam-bang action of The Times « Legion Golden Gloves boxing tournament resumes at 8 o'clock tonight ‘in ;the N,. Pennsylvania st. Armory. ® The Armory box ‘office will open at 6:45 p. m, Reserved seat tickets cone tinued on sale’ until the close of business hours at Bush « Callahan's, 136 E. Nahigton St, and The 1% N,

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