Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 March 1948 — Page 1
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EOP SARA os A | PRICE FIVE CENTS. {errs —iowanp] 58th YEAR—NUMBER 306 rn, TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1948 dianapoia. Tha. Twoed Sully eeetpt Bune | — ers —
At LVL Club
Roll Hoss and Wife, 8 Others Terrorized |
tion, two bandits escaped with, more than $6000 from owners loyees of the Liberal a ph Club on Bluff Ra.
ee with ‘well-laid, plans, the gunmen first held up Roll| co-owner of the club, and his wife as they entered the ‘runt door of their home at .25 E. 62d “#t. about 1:20 a. m. 2 | bery at the side of the house and stuck guns at us,” he said. “Get in there and lie face peoki] on the floor,” one bandit said, “Watch what you're doing "oe ‘t try anything . . . there's a 4840 outside watching.” Wife Tied Up With Nylons gunman then went to the _—— and pulled up the shade “whe can see In." : “One of them went through my pockets and took about $250, Mr. Hoss said. “Then they took a ring off my wife's fingers as we lay on the floor with our arms
to a bedpost with nylon hose they took eyo her dresser drawst, Meanwhile; the™ bandits had blindfolded both Mr. and Mrs
Mrs. Pratt in order to get in.”
Order Safe Opened On Multi-Billion Sum
The bandits then forced the Times Washingion Buress Pratts and five club employees! WASHINGTON, Mar. 2
to lie on the floor by the bar.. Should Congress adopt the muiti- that his wife was not sit
“Open the safe” commanded billion dollar program to make’
one of the bandits to Mr. Hoss.
bination,” Mr. Hoss said. power, one of the principal bene“TIl' give you three minutes | ficiaries in the production field
before I start shooting,” one of will be the Allison plant in Indi-|
the bandits said. | With this, Mr. Pratt velun- “aPolis. teered to open it. -
It was estimated that $5000, the Congressional Aviation Pol-|
All eight persons Were forced fleet of jet-propelled planes.
arrangement) over the victims’ business. "
& heavy meat cutting block and |pelled U. 8. planes now are Alli-|
ome other equipment including |son powered, according to Roger)
Stalled 200 ema ney. boda toihas been known: to roan’ et . sheriff's car at Charlottsville. {legal salary, ‘he said, was not{100 mental patients wandering '®P take care o pv ihe p he han ot Tye iss. Cunning. Sheriff Jack Rubush said he COWPlete without the extra $100 free are potentially dangerous|tients.” Dr. Bahr sala hat ge ink oto 4 sl aah jhe On top of it they placed) A majority of all the jet-pro- found her walking alone along|® month. [ad that they are nat . up ents now has be hack y ce of the
Push Door Open
“All of us pushed on the door Attends Writers’ Dinner | until it came open,” Mr. Pratt| Jets now are being made by| said. “When we pushed the General Electric and Westing-| things off of it the fire ex-|house, with Pratt-Whitney and tinguisher, went off and sprayed Wright preparing to make them | the whole Place with chemicals.|also. But the billions fer new It was a mess.” air-power would take up much of Before the bandits left they |the plant capacity; it is estimated. frisked the pockets of Mr. Prait| Mr. Fleming attended the din-| and the employees. {mer of the Aviation Writers AssoThey got $150 from Mr. Pratt|ciation at the National Press| and $700 from the other em-|Club last night and Gene Dawson,
HOOSIER FORMULA FOR MURDER. .
his car 30 miles along
Greenfield to let her out to mail ‘a letter—she thought. to lie on the floor in the base-|. General Motors now is making ® ment [two of the U. 8. Air Forces top-| - Actually, the professor
fessor continued on his way. “I was talking to her along the the highway and asked her if she | v So, the Sanitation Board today because of inadequate facilities in fa) tutomatic chemical fire ex-|C. Fleming, Allison public rela- Way." he said..*I remarked to Was “in trouble. ated tinguisher tions director, who is here today./her that we were making good : So the new program would mean time because’ we were at Clevemillions in orders in Indianapolis. {/and already (Cleveland, Ind.).
THE BOTTLENECK — Central State Hospital for the ‘Insane estimate hat another 500 in Marion Sounty took the club! criminals walk Indianapolis streets today. Sy Hk out io’ thelr car at starkly today before the main hospital building almost lost in the fog.
Absent-Minded Professor Leaves Wife
| * Drives 30 Miles Out of Greenfie While She Walks Along Highway
This is a story about an absent-minded professor that may| | \ . end absent-minded professor stories for all time. : Allows Increase off taxpayers have Prof. W. J. Cunningham, Harvard University. retired, drove Big poh | hey clals U. 8. 40 this morning before he realized a on wn ting beside him. on'y one,
. HATCHETS AND OVER-CROWDED ASYLUMS
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should be hospitalized. This is a major reason that potential maniacal Begged Her to Return mbolic of the twisted minds is this shattered tree trunk which stood | He said he bad begged her to had one turn at the ward.
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del Hatchet Slayer Not Enough Facilities ~~ Bound Over [To Provide for Those
Who Need Treatment To Grand Jury Many Families Living in Constant Danger; Mental Patient Faces Central Hospital Unable to Take More Patients
: By ROBERT BLOEM Murder Indictment | A dash of fate, a hatchet, and someone who ought to
see (Photo, Page Three) |be in a mental institution—that's the Hoosier formula for Fred Ellis, 43-year-old con. Murder. SD hs : {fessed slayer, was bound over to Indianapolis psychiatrists estimated today that more the Grand Jury without bond to-|than 500 persons in Marion County need mental care that day to face indictment for the! A They’ tally sick and ibly d {hatchet slaying of his ex-wife they can't get. ey re mentally sic possibly danger | yesterday. ious but there is no place for them to go. a oc bound ores os cage, And so maybe tomorrow or next week or even before 1as he came up for Preliminary | Sundown today another one of them may take a hammer or héaring this morning, - [shotgun and yield to a wild impulse. He won't be able to help hime The hatchet-wielding mental adit ‘any more than he could help himself if he had acute appenPatient yesterday decapitated 2s- In a dozen or more Indianapolis homes that Dr. David Boyd, Joat Sig Bveiyn Bilis as she slept |g. oral Hospital psychiatric head, could tell you about, families are A Re at 517 W. Court 8. sitting literally under a bloody Po who ut rs. had been granted * hatchet like the one that brought| Sous mental cases at any divorce Feb. 18 and was to move death to Mrs. Evelyn Ellis yester- moment might become suicidal Er [ ro Ea sc yer led Police Some member of each of those en as Dr. Boy a Police found the mutilated body| families is mentally ji. In a reporter the situation in the Of the attractive red-haired di- few situations the danger is reall Ward, & patient struck at the or vorcee in her blood-spattered bed- and immediate, but Dr. Boyd and | 9erly, The patient was weakened ati Ter Ellis called the police Superintendent Dr. Charles My-|Y Physical illness andthe station and calmly announced: |ers have no place to put thoge|!or and “"T've killed my wife.” . patients. Into bed Marion are hi, sal rn He Last night in General Hos-|, man with the physical explained that after he killed his|PI!a! 8 Pretty but not very hefty strength of a pro Wreswife he had sat “talking” to her.|Z1 year-old student nurse tucked jo; literally screaming for ade “I didn't want her to leave me. 19 atully JSwtuthed ——. mission to loved her so much,” he said, screams Other _ Later he signed a confession to|Wa# & lore, aging orderly. tal Mt, pi ting the slaying in which he said he “Acutely. disturbed” is the po-|their turn at General's “psycho” er veer re it had “spells” since November|lite medical term for the dan-|ward, : , Photo by Vietar Peterson, Times Staff Photographer. when his wife said she was going is S00: patients over capacity. Doctors [to divorce him,
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’ ~ |thosé beds comes from all sides. He had left her standing along the highway near Green-|!D a formal action by eld even though he had been — —— — | me. in world air- “talking , while. | He said he never suspected any! An old city ordinance author-|. Examining physicians labeled iL cant, 1 don't know the com-| 5 ICR SURE It Re eral ha troopers time during the 30 miles that she|ized the Sanitation Board, & sep- the suicide attempt an “attention- ituation : and a flock of sheriffs along the Was not in the seat beside him. |arate taxing unit, to pay $100 a! she atiants now more besides is still in use.” way to untangle the situation He finally discovered she was month to six officials for eXtra mended that he be given further|OCCUPYIng beds at Hosand get them back together again Missing near Cambridge City,| departmental services. {and on their way to Cambridge, Ind, about 30 miles from the These were the Mayor, con- [ The program, made public by Mass.
y ee ie | . Pontiff ? 's la er, cen $1460 Offered as Prizes Margarine 10 noble Anmivemary | a si: sri SE 2
the potential : M_FATICAN CITY. Mar. 2 (Up) | When he found how cold the water! murdererto. miss ‘treatin ihe + { Time S . Cc § 4 Help His Cause —His Holiness Pope Pius GP) was and was brought to General! cause of inadequate facilities. n S ewing on es : SE — celebrated his 72d birthday and|Hospital. A ia situation isn't helping : a ts Washington Bureau ninth anniversary of his election| The doctors advised him to stay us sleep nights,” Dr. Boyd $560 to Be Awarded Here, $900 More WASHINGTON, Mar. 2—Rep./as Pontiff today. : [tor treatment, but he said he had said. “Were at to Awaits Winn ers in National Co m petition Edward A. Mitchell, Evansville] The Pope worked as usual. The
By ART WRIGHT : mally - observed Mar. 12, when police powers with which to de- cases, but I'm not sure even that A “pot of gold” amounting to $1460 is awaiting Indianapolis, Senate guests at a recent Junch- enough.”
Ployees, Indianapolis, national AWA pres. Women, teen-agers and younger girls
When state. police = detectives 'deDt. Was among the speakers. Vent there to investigate, a few
Minutes after hearing the alarm i 4 ation, but the speeches Mr. Pratt met them at the door Bapary the record.” i {
With a 45-caliber , its trigger! - - oocked, er gun igger |
| <P - rane win ions 1) Women Aid Man Im not taking any chances,” he| aid, Deputy sheriffs were dispatched t [e Hold | minediately to the Hoss home. a5
Y untied Mrs. Hoss. It was the second holdup for| Mrs. Sadie Heider, 42. operator I. Hoss within six weak On (of Heider's Food Market, 126 W. 0.21 two bandits held up Mr. [24th 8t., was held up and slugged
bout the same time in the thorn-|® Man and two women, fled with "§ and took $260 in cash and | $15 and 4 table radio. Jewelry worth $1500. While Mrs. Heider was making
“as the same one - Six weeks ago” Mr. Hoss'so, he slugged her on the right
Rov il ie rane Combes S50 ; n b ovakia . . . an exclu- with winners of other metropo clusive Se story . . ..and other foreign develop-|'an centers to determine ihe Soin It ments : Bay best in the nation which tions for which a local first prize AIR Over all records on its ,rices broke a month 280 when eral tesserae seesaganenuis ses (PUSS Hwan by-dubous models at the cio and a _ of $20, 'oyalty investigation of Dr. Rd.| ~~ national show, June 9. : { seco prize {wa y . . Each first-place winner in Negy| "1! be offered: ¥; STANDARD PATTERN GROUP
$20,000 Fire. sweeps South Side firm........oo....Page 3
Contest which gets under The board report was discussed | by leading figures engaged in its National Sewing Contest.
York City — all expenses { home-sewing participants . . . and,” the thrill of seeing their creations) worn by famous Powers and Con-|later in The Times. “Dear Colleague « Here is
A : . i — A board of competent fashion ® pound of margaiine- already Bolsters Prices ot Chicago WASHINGTON, Mar. 2 (UP) ng a
(judges will decide which are the "°/0T®d—If you do the m
over models at a national fash-| ion show in New York's Waldor{-
not place in the national finals. If one of The Times winners gets
a national award, too, The Times anh Mrs. Hoss at their home[in her store today. The bandits. wii add an extra $100 to her New
York fashion show prize.
York will receive $100, plus a —————————— smn on ; «| (Senior Division) —Dress: Cotton, . How the Safety Board operates . . . a picture story, Page 11] iiikee-day dllexpentse tp to Man Anti-Lynch Bill OK'd
In addition to the cash, there are three exciting days in New| Ate and House pagea. Each of *he - paid — for eight of the
- ——— a ——— So ———————— a i nation’s best | 96 Senators and 435 Representa. U 3 Back wn Gren Market A Question Mark; cation which will be announced | Mitchell | Wiis mote:tvm i . . : 3
; . {Senate President Arthur H. Vane Astoria Hotel. re ang Sh ria 479 the og You are already in favor Corn, Hogs and Wheat Again Rise; denberg today. protected his The least The Times will dis- each of the eight divisions. 3 Takt Questions Fairless on Steel Hike i tribute in the local contest is| No entries are to be delivereq Margarine, Q y x {strong position as a potential $560, even if the winners here do
| 10. Rhee . “p change on a purchase by the two The least a Times contest firs(- jand gir » of i agen ant Pro-| Congress.” At Chicago, meanwhile, corn, Jabs hands for Yung a egraph Wank 9 I'm sure that at least one Of4women, the man entered and held Place. winner can receive is $50. - nals. ho mo Jasons 8 one| ar Mitchell has a bill to wipe wheat and hog prices rose again . ’ the bandits here this morning her at gun point. He forced her Al local second-prize winners will Who earns her living by sewing 0 who robbed to lie down. As she 'was doing get at least $20.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 2 (UP)| {cially will place you in the con-| here they will be displayed) . i", 4's, line fof the prizes will] en Grouse Un-American Activ-ment shot wheat prices upward products, seek the nomination or connive appear in tomorrow's Times. |it} oS mmittes today ordered yesterday in the biggest single Here are the eight classifica. ’¢ Commerce Department tog,
hattan. The $100 national prizes Made from standard pattern. WASHINGTON ht ; Dress: Silk, n, wool, ete: : Mar. 2 (UP) | but st A Ke) to Other Features on Inside Pages: [2 he Sstitbw Sed publjely at “| made from standard pattern. The House Judiciary Committee with # prices on corn and oats.|gument that higher costs justified Was confined today in his Wester
ids . t dard today a GOP-sponsored Hog s eotton and stocks onithe price increase would .apply ham home, i Amusements 6; Forum ..... 12) Movies .... 8 Side Glances 13) | Contest Ends. Apr. 19 |Coat or Bull. made trom stan |anti-lynching “ bill. The action the ew Fors Exchange joined equally to labor's demand for. A a Eddie Aun,, g Gardening.. 14) Obituaries.. 5 Society .... 13! You have plenty of time tol STANDARD PATTERN GROUP ame "as » Sout Democrat the upward trend. more pay. wd AL TEMPERATURES Mailed. 16.18 Meta Given. 14| F.C. Othman 11! Sports +s++.8-D complete your garments. The (Juniér Division, 18 years old or Pleaded with the " to| At Washington, meanwhile Sen. That argument for all, 6a m.. 58 10 Comicy *2++ A9/ In Indpls... 4 Radio ...... 19 Stranahan . 8| contest will continue until Apr. 19, yer). Dress, made from stand- abandon the bill and make friends Robeit A. Tart (R. 0.) sald the sides.” he said. t way, we, Tam... 37 11 Crosewor + 15/Inside Indpls. 11) Records ... 15| Weather Map 10 on which dayyyou must deliver — G {with the South. The committee inevitable effect the recent will never stop the spiral of infia-| Sam, 8 18 Ytortals .. 32 Dr, Jordan. er 12! your, creation. Jb a downtown lo- (Continued on Pare afcol 1) ‘vote was 18 to 8. steel price increase [J to stiffen'tionary prices. » fam. 81 1 . A Cpe don) y i ; y : 01 : v in i : ‘ : : : Y FRA ue,
! : | point where Mrs. Cunningham got | troller, corporation counsel, city 27 but was not kept at the hos- 'hey are committed when Central mental ; Mrs. Cunningham said the pro- Out of the car. He didn’t realize engineer, city clerk and the Board pital, jas 4 . hed Tacant, on hing: lat wot ; fessor stopped the car near she ever got out of the car. {of Works president. | I'm afraid there are hundreds! a entral, Dr, Max Bahr, 28 are in i was in the safe. {ley Board, would require a huge fes Flabbergasted, the professor! Mayor Feeney issued a state- like him wandering the streets,” *UPerintendent, tells his story. It's Hospital oe {Just called state police. Guiding Ment, explaining he wold refuse Superintendent Charles Myers of| NO, better. ex- him back over his trail, state to atotit the aR PAY and Hoge rapa aid afte ? i . troopers and deput sheriffs | /was informed o h ane ps yr yo a pa nara Alison uit. his I ped ** 00 found Mrs. Cunningham in a €xcept the city controller whose He said that 15 out of each . oor (a floor trap p
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who can sew. {eon, today.presented every Sen-|tifical mass, awards — all cash — are possible in The Times Sewing ator and Congressman with a way today in conjunction with the Pound.
{to The Times Contest ‘headquar-| Jt You don't do the mixing.| tial nominee by refusi 5 A yes ters until Apr. 19. They will be the lady if it would be a day, bolstering the price of wheat with an announcement that it k n \ dood or-no answer to the bi uestion judged the week of Apr. 26 and, would buy small amounts of flour for shipment to Europe and the e big q immediately thereafter the gar- hing to get margarine already } | ments winning first place will be itor of the Nebrask te J shipped to New York, -/an announcement will be made immediately on whether any a e [tebraska State JourRange of Prizes | The contest is open to women | OF the outworn, antedated mar . ——— Ny als
|and fashion designing. [taxes and hopes to get it passed was unchanged to 2 cents & bushel I questioning Benjamin Fairless, Republican convention would you The items of apparel — dresses,| You may submit any number this sessio i
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City Sanitation Board today. Urge Further Treatment |AlMost always some person
mechanism” and recom- Mor'e than
{treatment for mental disturb-|Pital are committed to Central; ances. He was treated again Feb, State H for the Insane
Gen | “Several years ago the { vera when . ¥ eral Hospital said ‘after be ane ville hospital nthe assay Fog? struck ha
the tients now has been moved back, . but every one of those beds and pital and beat Hor "im hags *
to pay only $100 a month Indianapolis. to Controller Phillip, Bayt. ! Ellis, a native of London, Eng-
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to get home to “take care of the|add a new 100-bed annex to (Republican; the man who colored double anniversary will be for- children.” The doctors had no/the hospital to care for these {the margarine’ for House and
the Pope will read a special Pon- [tain the man. : will be - | Furthermore, Dr. Boyd said All Vatican offices were closed sadly, with the mental wards
: today and Vatican flags were already jammed, with seriously Vandenberg Still _| Distribution was made by Sen- flying for the holiday. ill patients confined in jail await-
Reply Is ‘Cagey’
‘ By United Prem > comprom p iden take this pound home and ask The government returned tentatively to the grain market to- ise. Republican prea
“1 88 to whether he would accept. colored—at no extra cost—then Orient. } come back and help us to get Hid} - Bids on the flour were to be opened-today in Washington and Reymond A. McConnell Jr. ed-
(garine laws at this session of 8cceptable, he nal, asked Sen. Vandenberg by
ut all the margarine penalty] On the Board of Trade, wheat Mr. Taft made the statement If you were nominated by the
’ resident of U. 8. Steel Corp. accept?” { n. ; higher at the opening. Corn was { . : g Mr. Fairless and other steel! Sen. Vandenberg replied that | - + ‘temple. The trio then fled. suits, coats, etc. — created here of garments in a8 Soany classi — Up % to 134 cents & bushel, and yocutives were called to testify the “uriknown ultimate pratt of 4 et ————O PS: 21 —|and judged the best in each of cations as you wish, ‘House Group Demands oats advanced % to 1% cents. before Mr. Taft's Joint Congres-/the future made™a yes-or-no-an- “oH Vi re |eight contest divisions will be for- Form to Be Published ) | Opening hog prices also were 49 | R rd sional Economic Comynittee on [swer impossible po n |warded by The Times to the| registration form which om. VeCOrdsS on Dr. Condon 25 to 50 cents higher. . A e nsi e {board of judges in New York City. |
the recent $5 a ton boost in! Sen. Vandenberg in the past The : government's announce-/the price of semi-finished steel has repeatedly said he would not
Works Both Ways at a “draft.” But his action 8 recovery since commodity| Mr. Fairless read the committee kept him in the Apparent ranks & prepared statement in which he of those “available, - 3 {the government stepped out of the|sald . the price increase was! = : Condon.’ (Earlier story, ye yet. Justified by highr costs. He also CHURCHILL HAS A. COLD. : Wheat Shot Up called on labor to drop its de- : . Wheat shot up within a frac- ‘mands for third - round wage LONDON, Mar. 2 (UP)—Wink tion of & cent of the 10-cent limit boosts. (ton Churchill was reported mecowe for a day's trading. It carried, Mr. Taft said Mr. Fairless’ ar- ering from a severe
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