Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 February 1948 — Page 1
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58th YEAR—NUMBER 283
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| Will Follow N 5-Inch Snow
_ State Covered Roads Glassy,
by Record Fall; Rain Predicted
The heaviest snow of the winter fell on Indianapolis
and Indiana overnight as the Weather Bureau predicted a : .
cold blast will hit tomorrow.
Five inches of snow blanketed ing gowing traffic to a creep
LOCAL TEMPERATURES gam, .. 32 10a. m. .. 33 7am, .. 32 ila. m... 33 gam .. 52 12 (Noon) 33 am .. 32 A pom... 38. " »
hi hives Faces Worst Weather”
Hoosierdom this mornas it packed on streets and highways. To make conditions more hazardous, rain was predicted this morning. Rain will turn to snow later today and snow was forecast to continue through tomorrow as temperatures dropped Indianapolis Railways, Inc., announced service was_being maintained this morning on all routes but vehicles were running 10 to 15 minutes behind schedule. As more cars passed along the
New Cold Wave Due streets the packed snow became
"In Gas-Short Areas
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nited Press ‘Another paralyzing cold wave moved slowly southward from
slicker making driving more haz*|ardous. : Street Crews Busy Bus service in and out of - the city was continuing but busses
* porthern Canada. today, bringing|were running 15 to 30 minutes ~-with-#t what may be the most) i, Drivers reported highways
severe weather of the winter.
slick--and.-.dangerous. throughout
HL. Jacobson, forecaster atlipe siate
the Chicago Weather -Bureau,|: jiere
in: Indianapolis, street
said the new cold wave will move| ows were at ‘work spreadi ng into. Minnesota and the Dakotas| gq ang salt on slippery intertonight. It will spread Saat ward sections, Tony Malo, street comas far as Indiana and Michigan missioner, bemoaned the lack of
by tomorrow night.
equipment in his department
Mr, Jacobson said the Weather| hich could be used to clear the Bureau could not - predict hoWigee, grits off the strpets.
the new cold would last, but
State Police reported snow in
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FORECAST: Occasional light snow and noticeably colder tonight and tomoreow, Low tonight 20 to 24 degrees, high tomorrow 26 to 30 degrees.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1048
ered as Second-Class Mebier a Postoltice i Thdiiapotie, Ind. Issued ally except Sunday
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
a Hi Savs Ex-Wife In Slaying
Divorce Held |
Without Bail For Grand Jury
Admits Drinking Before Shooting A well-to-do East Side di-| SLAYING VICTIM —A Vorcee was bound over to the) fusillade of bullets greeted Grand Jury on a murder Harvey Samuel Broglin as charge without bond today in he started up the steps of connection with the slaying the home of his ex-wife, of her former husband in an
Jeanette Weav early morning shooting. eaver Oder, Mrs. Jeanette Weaver Oder, early today. :
ar 46, of 2538 Brookside Pkwy. S | Shal k said: “I shot him,” when ques-| In-GOP- Revealed
tioned by detectives at the scene Four Old Guard
of the killing. The victim, Harvey Samuel} Chairmen Dropped By NOBLE REED
Broglin, 35, a bartender, of 21153 |" BE. 10th St. was found dead with a . bullet: wound - An undercover shakeup of the After being grilled by detecMarion County Republican or-| tives most of the night, Mrs. ganization for a new alignment Oder was brought into Municipal
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jugular vein, - Sent to Grand Jury He was lying in a poo] of blood in a front yard next door to Mrs. Oder’s home.
through the|
of power in the 1948 elections was Court 4 where she waived pre-|
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long that the Middle Western States!,;; areas of Indiana exce pt in| 3 probably would remain cold 0rispots along the Ohio River. Now Jiicioees trough Tadgs Joseph: Howard ordered Tho Jest of the wes Albany reported rain this morn-\ pour ward chairmen who her held in jail without bond and |.
Early today sub-zero tempera- ; tures ar el from Sipe ing. formed the nucleus of the old Sent the case to the Grand Jury|
authoritative liminary hearing. "hh Photos by John Spicklemire and Henry Glesing.
“NOT GUILTY" — Flanked by-her brother, Windsor Weaver, and attorney, Mary Miller, Mrs. Jeanette
kotas eastward to New England. peach a high of 33 to 36 de :
today and drop to’ 20 or 24
Temperatures were expected to regular organization machine un- for investigation.
der former Chairman Henry E.[, It happened like this, accord-
Oder (center) stood silent as
morning. Her lawyer pleaded “not guilty” and waived the preliminary hearing.
Ostrom and James Bradford have
ing to Mrs. Oder’s statement to
she was charged with the slaying of her former husband in Municipal Court 4 this
By DONNA MIKBLY “~~ “THERE'S NOT too much to say.” ge In the dingy lock-up of the City Jail today a fur-coat clad, {thrice-married brunet nervously flicked cigaret ashes on the floor.
She calmly told of events leading up to the slaying of her divorced husband early this morning. :
expected jn drought-stricken Cal- “He (Mr. Broglin) had been : ‘It Was Either Him avert an electric power sho ; |Feqtignment to set up leadership | t as it er im industrial and residential brown- ‘James W. Ingles, new county St. and Jefferson Ave. | Boy ne part of the nation was i : + » i y : fuel HIGHLAN ,, Feb. 4 signed, has refused to discuss 1 wen king A Charges; | Was Afraid of Him, That ! All dustry tn OE involv. eon arn, n : a southern Michigan, Indiana, Ohio|ing Walter Hauk’s missing $10,500 About 10,000 workers in Evans- of a noted surgeon, had put the/organization of the party ‘at.this| “We drove back to Indianapolis] ‘gas supply wavered during cold| Officials of this fashionable Chi-| However, the talk among party Mrs. Oder then said she went| “I'm not sorry, 1 figured it was either him or me.” summed Restrictions which had reduced|indication that there had been|direct request through “grape-|Mrs. Rosie Branam, 2720 E. |the murder of her second hus- hs sl “HE CALLED about 15 minutes Franklin-Columbus area were|like a mistake.” The ward chairmen who have Called on Phone ! \ing's crop of vagrants and other! wasn't going out. It must have ~had been off -the job since Mon-| Fla., in-1946. In 1941, he asked! chairman for many years Carter called me on the telephone,” she
‘Heavy Rain in Oalitorma Heavy rains and snows were vy degrees tonight. been dropped from party control. Police. I'm Not Sorry'— ffornia, but the West Coast's EE Three of these vacancies have| HS ring me -for_ several weeks, i y argest light and power company | 1 |been filled unofficially with new | JOC1T I oh : ois the rains. ‘were 10. late to ; |factional leaders for a “gilent” 2nd 1 was afraid of him. : Meet at Tavern : James Black, president of the é . ¥ for the primary election cam- | “He called me and asked me A , | » ; = Pacific Gas and KElectrie Co., -d | p |paign this spring. |to meet him yesterday noon and| ; : ’ : ‘ called for voluntary state-wide Won't Comment {I met him at a tavern at 10th| r e, ays rs. er a Re a Tn Found in Deposit |GOP chairman elected in & sud-| “We had a few drinks there si Farmer Wits. The new. eld Power struck as * ‘den switch of party control lastiand we then drove to Beech 7 : 4 ‘He Beat Me Repeatedly,’ Former Wife Box of Doctor's Wife November when Mr, Ostrom. re-| Grové and had some more drinks... re 1 to recover fnom: RK, on 3 shortage : in| (UPY—A six in) he bought me 4 pair of hose as and Pennsylvania. was solved ‘today with the disclo- ward chairmen. : a gift and gave me a birthday Lifted sure that Mrs. Karl Meyer, wife] “We will ‘not talk about re-icard ville, who have been alternately money in her deposit box by mis-(time. We want a united party, and had some more drinks and I idled or called to work as theltake. not a divided one” he said. left him.” weather, were told fo report to|cago suburb said they were in-|workers has disclosed that four to the home of Mr. Broglin’s sis- {up 46-year-old Jeanette Weaver| Tan : \ their jobs again today. vestigating, but that there was nofward bosses have resigned by in-| ters, Mrs. Connie Hickey and [Joyce Broglin Oder, charged with im ack 4nd let Him out. and €.gas to 10 per cent of normal for{any crime. State's Attorney|Vine” suggestions. North St, where they were aav-j ko st |band, Harvey Broglin. ________ / 12 plants in the Seymour-Bedford-| Harry Hall said “It all looks Those Dropped ing a party. \ he .| Earlier as she.was brought into| after I got home. He sald some- / ye 1a g {court and seated with the morn- thing about a date but I sald I also lifted this morning. About| Mr, Hauk, a retired cosmetic been dropped from the leadership| “They took me home about 3 1000 workers in that area who|salesman, died at St. Petersburg, linclude, E. Lester, first ward|3- ™. and my former husband [petty offenders, Mrs. Oder, mem-| peen around 6:30 when he called iber of “a prominent Indianapolis ; day returned to work. The ‘Michigan
Consolidated Gas Co., which supplies gas for Detroit automobile center,
get for him 21 $500 bills. Kramer, fourth ward and Edwin The bank checked the serial Haerle, west half of the 12th when - it
turned the ward.
the First National Bank here to Eltzroth, sixth ward leader; Carol said. - i 4. | “I told him T would not see] ‘him and that I was going to -
bed but he insisted and said he
family, drew off to herself and
E ‘sat quietly in a corner, > LJ .
again. . “He was tight then, His voice was thick. He Kept. saying he couldn't see any reason why 1
IN HER YOUTH Mrs. Oder won| wouldn't go out since it was my
the numbers . “said yesterday that the outlook money over to Mr. Hauk, who. They were aligned for years Was coming out anyway. I was for resuming gas deliveries in'déposited it in his safety deposit with the Ostrom-Bradford ma- afraid of him bythe sound of the area, where 200,000 men have) box. At least he thought he did. chine and were eased out of the Bis voice. ?
been forced out of work, were|But when he opened the boX a leadérship by pressure ‘brought| According to detectives, shel iN€s a 38-caliber pistol with which Mrs, Oder was alleged “= Meoneiderably” DIghter:™ ~~ yeni Iter the Money Was EON... by. the faction led. by Joseph J. said she then called her brother,| io have fired three times at her former husband, Harvey 1 . I. Spots Numbers Daniels and Gov. Gates, “who, Windsor Weaver, 2227.8. Brook- - eo J ran fo Reject Russ:
Three weeks ago, bank tellers backed the election of Mr. Ingles/side Pkwy. and told him her Brogfi East Side bartender, esis Charges Agai said Mrs. Meyer, a regular Cus-ias chairman. #7" [former husband was coming | sr ges - Against U. S. tomer, came in to deposit $6000, TEHRAN, Feb, 4 (UP)—Pre- in $500 bills. ;
lover. . | Others to Go | “I'm going to kill him” Mr. + “tier Torahim Hakimi said today| The serial numbers were those, learned that Iran would deny all points of the missing bills. Mrs. Meyer
It was that Frank Weaver quoted Mrs. Oder as sayHuse, former county treasurer; jng in his statement to- police, of & Russian charge of Ameri-/told bank authorities that the un interference in the affairs of
{laurels in city and and out-of-ihirthday. He was {state swimming Tots lepding 4 get abusive; {team from the-o oosier Ath-| = «pg . letic Club. Her grandfather. \calied. It was her birthday, too. George A. Weaver, an early In-iThey just insisted I come over dianapolis construction expert.'ang I got to thinking the way ba sein ~~ was active in bullding the -Co-lthings looked it might be better, I RA gr 1umbja Club and other landmarks.|1 stayed all evening and got home 2, ig 1 "% He founded the firm carried onfahout 1 a. m TI 3 also George A.| : ” / : Windsor |
DEATH 'WEAPON— Inspector Jack O'Neal exam- beginning to
by her father, Www Weaver and brother, “HE CALLED at 1:15. He said Weaver. he'd been trying to get me all Bewildered by: legal procedure, evening and said he was
fourth ward, replacing Mr. Kra- wait . . . call police,” Mr. Weaver ‘Mrs, Oder left her pleading in the over. 1 said ‘sult yourselt’ and
'has been picked to head the “Ng, don't do anything . . . is country,
Iranian reply to Russia 8 been prepared and probably
box for years.
pervisor of Cook County Hospital
\money. had been in her deposit;
, who is su- | r Mrs. Meyer s husband, Who Is || ward, réplacing Mr. Eitzroth, and| police get here,” Mr. Weaver said|
(mer; Jesse Hutsell, once a candi- said he told her on the telephone. [date Tor sheriff, to lead the sixth «1¢ will ‘he -too late when the
hands of Mary Miller, the attor- hung up.”
ney whom she obtained a month] ago in proceedings to FIVOree Her present husband, Edward
From: there, advised by her Tawyer; she declined to corrobo-
Oder. |rate statements taken by detses
Will be sent tonight or tomor-
in Chicago, said his wife was In| aie, to_succeed Mr. Haerle.
[Elmer - Petty, Criminal Court 1 his sister told him and then hung
Lup.
{On the advice of Miss Miller, she (tives that she oiled the gun and
row, Mr, Hakimi said.
“I have done everything to|Hauk reported the loss. avoid all manner of provocation » Bgainst the Soviet Union,” Mr. Hakimi said when questioned|was in an envelope, while putting |
the bank vault two days after Mr. These new leaders-will not be
in picture publicly until the machine is well-organized to sponsor candidates for prosecutor
He said “that Mr. Hauk must have dropped- the money, which
Pistol Jammed : : Mrs. Oder in her statement to
| detectives said she got out a pistol]
and found that it was jammed.
Shout. the. situation, No priviges have been granted to any OTeéign power in Iran which the
lope containing
Boviét governm. . ready en ent does not al
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sorting through pers.
Police Seek Letter Writer In Maas Bribe Attempt
Rouls to Probe Reports of Gamblers ‘Making Book’ in Butler Fieldhouse During Net Games
Indianapolis and New, York police today sought the sender of
A letter which they belie ; z , ve may be connected with an attempt to Pg ribe a Butler University basketball player. - a tal of approximately 150 trafic Shot on Campus
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‘ “At the same time, Police Chiet Edward D. Rouls said he would nvestigate reports that a clique of well-known local gamblers make a habit of congregating in the Butler Fieldhouse to “make book”
Suring basketball games. He sald, electives would be assigned to i Jobs this morning. bad ne Atement was taken as on aan for’ the hookmaking anos i“: d they put in an appear-| tonigh on? Fieldhouse during) game, 8 Butler-Notre Dame The bey
Br ph
ew obery plot investigations one Ut of a mysterious telene call from New York Friday
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12! proposition. Maas
night to Charles Maas, Butler's ace guard. The caller, who the athlete said apparently was phoning from a pay station, said in a Brooklyn accent that it would be worth $500 to Charley if Butler could beat Ohio University by less than nine points. Butler officials discounted the possibility ‘that somebody might be ribbing the star netter because only a short time before, he had received a letter from a Brooklyn address offering a “business proposition.” : v Maas showed that letter to Coach Tony Hinkle who said he
posed the player answer on chance it might be a legitimate
op, ‘sender unless anonymous telephone call was intended to be the reply.’ =i In any évent, Maas’
Movies ..... 7 Wom, News. 15
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it in the box. Mrs. Meyer, he sald, apparently scooped up thé enve- mary. : the money while her. mother’s pa- get the
“I got some oil and oiled the : | gun and oiled the bullets, too,” Other ward bosses slated to|she sald. “I then went to the pack “ax” soon include Har-|door and fired one test shot and old Shulke of the 15th ward| found that it was working all and George Johnson, third ward. right.”
{and sheriff in the May 4 pri-
They were also part of the top| Her ‘statement then said she
command under the Ostrom- | turned out all the lights in the Bradford regime, {Rouse and waited.” While wait-|
. | (Continued on Page 2—Col. 2) | Mayor Feeney Peruses == |
‘Delinquent’ Stickers l. u. Would Like | A long list of Indianapolis busi- Hoagy's Movie
‘néss corporations which are delinquent in the payment of a to:
stickers is under the scrutiny of] Mayor Al Feeney today. He said he had called one businessman to find why he had failed
BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Feb, 4— Indiana University today -ex-
{refused to sign a statement and} {was reluctant to discuss the act[ual shooting. : — v wo". x }
fired a test shot while waiting. A weary note crept into her voice as she concluded: Ca “He'd followed and. followed
|” SHE TALKED FREELY, how- [4nd followed me. I couldn't get
ever, of the celepration of her |
j 46th birthday yesterday and
LAST GIFT — These nylons, found in an envelope in Mrs. Oder's bedroom, were her former husband's last
to pay the sticker issued to his firm. The Mayor said the man could give no excuse, but said “they will be taken .care of right away.” Some of the stickers are months old. The list has been turned over to William Erbecker, city prosecutor, for collection under the administration’s “no ticket fixing” policy.
Hit-Run Victim Carried 140 Feet
FT. WAYNE, Feb, 4 (UP)— Herbert C. Cecil of Ft. Wayne
beside the Bass Road, a half mile
west of the Ft, Wayne city mits, | sald
before daybreak. Police marks in the fresh snow indicated he was struck by an auto falling to the ground. : a
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yay " was killed today by what state didn’t “like the look of it bak pro; police described. as a hit-run pol :
torist. . Cecil's lifeless body was found you
tended an invitation to Charles (Buddy) Rogers and Triangle Productions to film part of the contemplated screen version of Hoagy Carmichael’'s “Stardust Road” here, A telegram sent to Mr, Rogers by E. Ross Bartley, director of the IU News Bureau, and Claude| Rich, alumni secretary, drew at-| tention to Bloomington and the IU campus as a setting “it would be difficult to duplicate anywhere” for the early life of the famed Hoosier composer, ‘ “The university will be honored to be host to you and the film production company for this important movie. We know that ‘ on Hoagy to tell about the Hoosier
46th birthday anniversary.
gift to her. He gave her the nylons yesterday on her
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY"—A scrawled "Happy Birthday—H" on the bottom of a hearts and rated card identified this as the
Haney Broglin rushed . | We oman We Eatin pasion
events which Ted up to the
[ways been afraid of nm| GOFS Death Threat
| (Broglin),” she said a few min- | utes after she had pleaded not {guilty to his murder. “I divorced him for. it——crueity, I guess you call it. } "1 can't remember how many {times during our marriage I had to call the police’ . . . beatings, {butcher knife threats. 1 was just lafraid of him-—that's all.” Mrs. Oder said her -acquaintance with Broglin broke up her first marriage to Arthur K. Joyce, {now deceased, and that they were married in 1938 after she divorced Mr. Joyce, Their marriage ended in 1945 |when she divorced Broglin con cruelty charges. fhe married Mr. Oder soon after that. A month ago she filed suit for, divorce against Oder,
* ww.» “IT WAS HIS fault about the divorce the last time, too,” she said, puffing nervously on a cigaret. “He bothered us—once
out at the point of that gun.” (She referred to the 38-caliber slaying weapon.) 4 |- She said Broglin had called and | “managed to run ihto me” since {he léarned of the divoree proceedings and that he called her at about 1 p. m. yesterday. She sald she was shopping when she ran into him at St. and “|Jefferson Ave. about an hour Inter, . . . “We drove to Beech Grove and {had a drink.
my husband (Oder) ordered him|’
to say; He me a , a nyloms, I
/
He bad very little ©
away from him. I was just ‘afraid
of “him, that's all.”
Scrawled in Snow
Police believed today that some{one was “ribbing” Roll Hoss, night club operator, who found a threat scrawled in the snow bee hind his automobile. The snow message said, “You will die—The Killer.” * However, they , provided his home at 25 E. 62d St. with a guard last night. The address was the scene of ‘a $1750 robbery of Mr. and Mrs. Hoss Jan. 21. Two bandits bound Mr, Hoss, then k his automobile,
e is proprietor of the Liberal View League, Inc. 2027 Bluff Rd.
JIce-O-Rama Seat
Sale Is Brisk
Tickets for The Times Ice O-Rama Feb. “19 in the Fairgrounds Coliseum. are ‘heing sold fast , o. but there are plenty of seats,
Plan to get yours NOW at’
1. Btrauss & Co.—the only place to obtain tickets for the show which wil reise ; Infantile
The all-amateur show wil present more than 400 looal skaters fn a two-hour ex trav. and Parquet. side
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