Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 February 1948 — Page 15

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Fatalities at Night | f Indianapolis are he blockade to catch erring | Ti ts is on again. interest the busiest traffic cora ry wt Pour Of are thy central

t on drivers in an effort I | in accordance to at GE, the increasing after-

nfined to the own. fark accidents. JN for a fémale dog Capt. Audry Jacobs of the Po- ff without a leash, ~ J jj Traffic Department, said imten in a disgrace. proved weather conditions had es. ‘That is what prought out thousands more ‘cars t. SVery day. up blishing the blockade oa walking Jun 10 check motorists is a nec-| 2 ha ure to reduce the, neighborhood who of growing fatalities at

Capt. Jacobs said the state law) gives police authority to stop to check their lights and mechanical defects. { “Incidently we will check for drivers who have been drinking,”

Reds Return Lend-Lease Tanker to U. S.

ywner pays no ate I went out on my large strange dog rowled at me, ©

getting absolutely . he streets of Indi-

Photo by Lloyd B. Walton, Ties Staff Photographer.

itizens espec c lally FATAL BLAST—James J. Mitchum

for protection of

Sr. was killed instantly

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time Commission, {lieves he can revive the dead, said said. .

30 clean and keep A crew of 40 was flown from|last night that he had “fatly re-|

? : load oil in the Persian Gulf for resurrection experiments.

: New York. sville, Ind. : iders have a new Republican Ticket

“It would be murder from a le- Cal, had made the bizarre offer.

, but we certainly ie brass hats of the | ‘be disappointed. ce the voters that

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[KILLED IN . ACCIDENT— | James Joseph Mitchum Sr. president of Mitchum & Schaefer, Inc., was killed: at his desk yesterday in a freak accident, & : - # .

J. J. Mitchum Sr. Rites Thursday

Firm Head Killed in

Ho Air. Compressor. Blast.

Funeral services were set 1today for James Joseph Mitchum St., Indianapolis executive, who was killed at his desk yesterday when an air compressor tank exploded and crashed through the roof, . Services are to be held at Flanneér & Buchanan Mortuary at 10:30 a. m. Thursday. Burial will be in Crown Hill. > The 55-year-old president "and part-owner of Mitchum & Schaefer died instantly as the pound tank plummeted through the roof of the firm, 430 S. Pennsylvania St., at 1:50 p. m. His son, James Joseph Mitchum Jr., 24, was sitting at a desk a few feet away but was uninjured. Head ‘Swooshing’ Sound The firm's bookkeeper, Bernard Nicewanger, 1305 Leland Ave. was standing a few feet in back of ‘Mr. Mitchum. Mr. Nicewanger said he heard a blast and paused. Then, he said,

watched in horror and collapsed

men was struck by the tank or falling debris. s

8. Pennsylvania St. Debris Litters Roof

ler-Ward Drug Co. nearby was John Reimer, 115 Palmer St, a cousin of Mr. Mitchum. He told

through the roof and send debris higher than ‘a 75-foot smoke stack, then descend on the ryof

Mr. Reimer did not know until later that his cousin was killed in the blast. : The tank, he said, inscribed an arc almost 75 feet high before it fell on the Mitchum building. The blast blew the roof from the compressor room and left it hanging in shreds. One end of the room was démolished. Workers theorized that a safety valve on the tank might have stuck. Mr. Mitchum resided with his family near New Palestine; Ind." Mr. Mitchum had been president of the firm 19 years and prior to that worked 15 years for F, H. Lanksenkamp Co., 227 E. South St. He was a member of Scottish Rite and Englewood Lodge, F&AM, and was a lifelong resident of Indianapolis and vicinity,

Today's Weather Fotocast

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of the Mitchum firm. |

Rain Increases Flood Danger In Mississippi

Yazoo Leveling Off After 40 Ft. Crest

By United Press Rain fell today in the flooded Yazoo River valley, increasing the threat to river towns protected from the rampant river only by earthen levees reinforced by sandbags. “The levees protecting Greenwood, Miss., have absorbed “just about all the water they can,” according to engineers, and it was feared that thé new rainfall might melt them out entirely.

“When the levees are wet all

it becomes a pile of mud and is very easy to blow out.” River Hits 40 Feet. The river reached a crest of 40 feet and began leveling off, {but six tributaries have flooded

mote -than-500,000-aeres of :sur-:

‘rounding lowlands. The rain was general over the

as Minnesota and Wisconsin where it turned to snow. Temperatures were. falling in the North Central states, but the Chicago Weather Bureau said the drop could not be considered a cold wave, The forecaster said that the cold air mass moving down from

crease in intensity as it moves southeastward across the United States. ; . Temperatures were above zero over the entire nation except for small isolated spots, the weather bureau said.

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Report Food Pric

CHICAGO, Feb, 24 (UP)—The food price decline showed signs of leveling off today. A spot check of grocery stores across the nation showed that prices of several basic foods stayed the same last week. Others dropped only slightly. Many grocers said the end of the price break .seemed to be near, The price drop last week was ‘much less marked than «it was the week before, they said. Meat Still. Dropping However, some foods-—particu-larly meat—continued the downward trend which went into its sharpest slide after the big break on the commodity markets Feb. 4. «Butter appeared to have continued downward in some cities

Surviving, are, his wife, Gertrude; his. son;. three. brothers, Edward, Cincinnati; Ernest, Chi-|

~|gago, and Charles; Kentucky, and;

"|a’sister, Mrs, Pearl Perryman, in-|

{24 (UP)—A Yugosldvia foreign .Many 'grocerymen |office spokesman said today that “popular belief” that prices had

{cruiser Providence at Trieste yes- They said the decreases in some {terday was a “flagrant violation items were offset by increases in

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Pact Held Violated

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Feb.

arrival of the 10,000-ton U, 8S.

of the Italian peace treaty.” |

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but milk was up at many sometimes fn the same cities which reported a decrease in butter prices. “ re Flour prices generally remained the same this week as for last’ after registering a decided drop during the previous seven-day period. : said the

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southern plains and the South- Indiana, Missouri and Oklahoma can expect similar temperatures. east and extended as far north Gif of Mexico, however, will cause storms

Penshi Reported ~ About

NANKING, Feb, 24 (UP)—Re-| ports from Mukden indicated to-| day that the Nationalists may! have to surrender Penshi, anoth-| er vital city in the Mukden area, ! to the Communists.

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Prelate Converts Home

To Fall to Communists ian capital, was becoming un-| TORONTO, Feb. 24’ (UP)— tenable. The Communists were james Cardinal McGuigan of sdid to have wiped out all the Toronto gave up his 12-room home {to 90 homeless children today and moved to another house at York Penshi was the site of the ma-/ Mills. Cardinal McGuigan said his Jor Suvernmient strongholds set home would be called the Neil - jup oc ommunists mov« McNeil Infants’ H 3 Latest dispatches said that the ing northward after taking An-! Se ahd would

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