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| 58th YEAR—NUMBER 310 Today's Short ‘Shor?* Story—
Question: Where
$64 C Is the Missing $3000
From LVL C
lub Loot?
Owners Asserf $6323 Taken; $3466.26 on
Deposit in Paris Bank;
Bandits Deny Spending
THE LVL BANDITS were enjoying Sheriff Al Magen-
heimer’s hospitality at the County Jail today but the thing that occupied the minds of everybody concerned in the case
was what happened to about $3000 of the loot.
The tlub was held up last Tuesday and Roll Hoss and L. S. Praft, owners of the club which was christened Liberal
Rocket Goes 3000 MPH, 18 Miles High
‘Aerobee’ Jet Sets New U. S. Record
WASHINGTON, Mar. 6 (UP)— A new Navy rocket has reached an altitude of 78 miles and a top
speed of 3000 miles per hour— both new records for Americanbuilt rockets. The Navy and Army said. in a
View League Club when Gus Hitzelberger formerly owned it, said the loot amounted to
23. % total of $5173 in greenbacks and silver, principally quarters, half dollars and dollars was taken from the club's safe when the bandits returned with Mr. Hoss to the premises after first holding up Mr. and Mrs. Hoss at
ir home. vA Hoss and the chef co
of $6323. Mr. Pratt, in his bathrobe, had no money on him.
ss = ! WASTING NO time after the capture of the bandits at Paris, Tenn., was announced exclusively ingThe Indianapolis Times, Sheriff Magenheimer and two of his deputies, Virgil Quinn and Robert Reasner, went to Paris to talk to the 17-year-old gunmen,
Tex, and William LeMay of Nashville, Tenn. They politely} ignored the city police depart-
ment. Sheriff Magenheimer got into the money question shortly after he arrived at Paris yesterday and was informed that there was a total of $3466.26, every cent on the boys’ persons and in the automobile, on deposit in the Commercial Bank & Trust Co. of Paris.
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the Criminal Court in
their ages.
county,” the local sheriff advised his northern neighbor. Magenheimer brought back the empty boxes in which the money was stolen from the LVL’s safe. And LeMay said that $120 of the money was his legitimately. LeMay and Raven asserted they spent nothing except for a little gasoline.
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“WE DIDN'T have any time or place to spend -Sheriff Magenheimer. tributed $1150 more, or a totallthe LVL people thought possibly Raven ditched some of the money in a swamp into which he escaped after LeMay had been apprehended in the tourist cabin near Paris when deputies surprised them.
it,”
In the meantime, Sheriff Mag-
enheimer said he doubted if a kidnap charge he placed against the boys would stick because f He said they'd probably wind up pleading guilty to robbery charges.
“THEY'RE
He said they probably were op-
erating “on their own” and not as stooges for an out-of-town gang reported to be trying to muscle into Marion sorts. However the investigation into {the muscle mob reports continues “YOU CAN have it as soon as underway by Sheriff Magenheimyou send me an order ‘rom|er, Mayor Feeney and Police] t your [Chief Rouls.
Sheriff
they told Some of
JUST a couple punk kids. They're like a couple of little whipped dogs. mighty meek,” said the Sheriff.
They're
County re-
joint announcement today that the rocket, named the “Aerobee,” was launched successfully at the ‘White Sands, N. M. proving ground. ; The “Aerobee” fell short of the
miles an hour speed set by the Army in its tests with captured German V-2 rockets. But it eclipsed the record of 34 miles and 2000 miles per hour established last year by the Army® American-built “WAC Corporal.” Launched Yesterday The new rocket was launched at White Sands yesterday. Twenty similar rockets are to
{oped by the Army and Navy. ! Designed primarily for upper atmospheric research, the ‘“Aerobee” carried 150 pounds of scientific instruments in its nose, ‘inluding devices to record cosmic rays. The other rockets will be equipped with other instruments to continue experiments in che
year with German rockets. The Navy and Army said the rocket’'s design was based on a previoys development sponsored
ment. No details were given as
liquid fuel. The rocket is simple in Jesign,
struct, and is" launched oy a “small technical team with miaimum facilities,” the announcement said. Used to Collect Data The two services said the new
Get 'Em While They're Hot—
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Pickings Are Easy In W. Morris St. Pub
Father, Dear Father, What Number Have You? Rain on Docket;
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A WEEK-END FABLE—=
Cops Watch Dollars Ring :
REPORTER
It was a jubilant bunch that Bill greeted at the door.
For, it was payday and week’s work filled the air.
hand. A guy could hardly avoid
“Come on, youll hit this | time,” urged the super-sales-man who doubled behind the | bar. " s » HALF-DOLLARS RANG as they bounced against the bar rail. Workmen from nearby | J. D. Adams Co., Link-Belt Co.
and railroaders elbowed one an- | other and took a peek at their |! dearly bought tickets while they pocketed their change. Just then, a face appeared at the window. A middle-aged nose pushed against the glass. Under it was a smaller nose. The larger set of eyes that were patient and yet weary with years of struggle to make ends |
ruled by Bill With resignation, the face turned away. The unhappy woman walked toward the super market next door. At the
Our Fair City—
meet searched the big room
the satisfaction of a good
Inside, Bill's place was humming. ‘Every seat at the bar was taken and the tables were filling rapidly with workmen in overalls and caps, tired but relaxed and gay.
2 » » » = » “NUMBER 10 is your tip number,” a burly bartender cried as he walked between the tables with a pick-win card in one hand. In the other, he £ngered an apron pocket full of silver. ; It wasn’t a case of asking for a ticket behind a work-worn buying. Five tickets stapled to- | gether brought 50 cents and might win $15 or mors.
| entrance, she stopped and fingered a few coins in her purse. =
= = HER HANDKERCHIEF wiped away a tear. . Back in Bill's place, the tempo was quickening. The now full room of drinkers was being promoted for all it was worth. . Tickets were being jerked from. cards as fast as possible and thrust into easygoing hands. In the back room, a policeman relaxed over a desk and whispered over a telephone. His partner nudged Bill and the two laughed knowingly. “Looks like this is the West Side substation we've heard so much about,” grimaced a working stiff at the bar. He took a long pull on his beer and snorted. =
Ld ” THIS WAS W. MORRIS S8T. and the eagle wag squawking.
Feeney Orders Police To Brush Up on First Aid
get a thorough overhauling In handling accident victims.
The sudden brush-up on medical advice for officers followed the accident last Sunday in which a 4-year-old
boy was carried off the street by police and pronounced uninjured by a General Hospital doctor. Later it was discovered |
rocket will provide naval personnel with actual training in
tracking of liquid-fueled rockets. In addition, the rockets will be used to obtain data on rocket
[flight which may be applied to
other guided-missile projects,
No Reliéf in Sight
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
6a m.. 3 10a m.. 39 7am. ..% 11 a. m... 39 8a m.. 38 12 (Noon) 39 | 9a. m.. 88 1p m.. 39
Rain is predicted today and tomorrow as the weather man promises no relief from the cold, cloudy weather. Temperatures were - expected to stay close to |freezing with no possibility of | better weather before next week. The thermometer will stay close [to the 32-degree mark tonight {with today’s temperatures rising no higher than 40 degrees. Weather for the state looked |even more forbidding as rain and 'sleet was predicted in the south{west by this afternoon, spreading jover the ramainder of the state | tonight,
Finnish Groups Blocking Red Pact
HELSINKI, Mar. 6 (UP)—The |Finnish (has defeated
the
Party’s attempt to create agita/tion among Finnish workers in| favor of a full-fledged military {alliance with Russia, Social Dem-
1° Party leaders said today.
They reported that only a few | workers meetings out of a dozen {or more called by the Communists have approved Communist - pro-| posed resolutions to support al
military pact with Russia.
Five meetings were held yesterday. Only one of the meetings approved a Communist resolution on the pact. Social Democratic worklers at the other meetings voted
FIRST AID TACTICS of police emergency squads will down the Communist resolutions. $1 Million in Proj {Marion County Tuberculosis As-
on the latest technical tricks Asks for Controls
he had a concussion and 8 skull fracture.
The whole procedure worried Mayor Al Feeney. So, he issued 2 special order to Police Chief Ed Rouls to make a complete check
of the police first aid operations.
If the check shows any weaknesses in medical procedures for
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On Emergency Cars
der control at all times.
fic: lights are located and a preferential streets.
loaded semi-trailer truck. “This accident occurred . .
motorist can do is to obey th traffic signals,” Stoops.
persons.” CIO BACKS EUROPE AID
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munism and Fascism.”
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record 114-mile altitude and 3500]
be fired under a program devel-|
upper air which were started last!
by the. Army Ordnance Depart-|
to the size of the rocket. It uses!
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the handling, fueling, launching and
Social Democratic party! Communist |
He said this is especially required at intersections where traf-
Mr. Stoops called attention to 71 yesterday's accident at Meridian y and Michigan Sts. when a Sista Bridge over Prairie Creek near Police car ran against a red light and collided with a heavily- tion Co. Yeddo, $51,765.
where traffic noises are acute, traffic is heavy and about all a!
asserted Mr!
CHICAGO, Mar. 6 (UP)—The international executive board of| the United Auto Workers (CIO) demanded today that Congress adopt the Marshall Plan in order i an explosion at the suburban
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Tigers, Indians. Open: Regionals
Washington, Speedway Meet in 2d Game
By BOB STRANAHAN All over Indiana today. basketball held the No. 1 Hooperating. Close to 90,000 fans owned tickets to the games in 16 regional centers this afternoon and tonight. Countless other thousands listened to broadcasts from most of the state's radio stations. Locally, nearly 15,000 fans were ‘jamming Butler's spacious Field‘house fqr the state's biggest meet. | Anderson's Indians and the] | Tigers of Greenfield opened ac-| {tivities at 1:15 p. m., renewing an| old regional rivalry here. Two first-time sectional winners were the second game opponents and gave the meet a city vs. county {spice since the foes were Wash-| |ington and Speedway. wi | Fans watched also for possible upsets. Evansville Central and]
Lawrenceburg were established §
as the teams most likely to J a in the 1948 meet. But {the Central Bears particularly] faced a rough time of it today. | { In their home regional the | Evansville representatives were! {paired against a better-than-| {average Boonville team in the| |opener. If successful, their night; | opponent probably will be Prince-| |ton and the Tigers earlier won an {87-64 decision from the Bears. | Tonight's 16 suvivors are as-| signed to four semi-final centers| {to be played in Indianapolis, | Bloomington, Lafayette and Mun-| cie next Saturday. The field then] is narrowed to four to compete in: the finals at the Fieldhouse on | March 20. |
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: WO Sy . * ndianapolis , Ti Light rain tonight and tomorrow, little change in tempera ture. Low tonight, 33 to 37; high tomorrow, 35 to 40. : SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1948
THE AFTERMATH—This is
gutted by fire. Cpl. Wood's body was found by firemen near the | open window on the left above the porch.
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SAVED ‘FROM FIRE — Mrs. Lena Mitchell and her two children, Patricia Ann and Frederick, 1401 Charles St., escaped from a home fire today which brought death to a nephew, Cpl. Stephen D. Wood Jr.
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Victim Found Near Open Window; Wife and Child on Way from Texas
An Indianapolis soldier died early today in a flash
Cpl. Stephen D. Wood Jr.,
fire after he had helped his two cousins to safety.
18, here on a week-end pass
from Ft. Knox, Ky., was trapped when fire gutted his aunt's home at 1401 Charles St.
The victim's wife and his month-old-son are en route here from El Paso, Tex., unaware of the tragedy. Mrs. Lena Mitchell, 37, was awakened in her downstairs room about 4 a. m. when cai smoke swirled
the room. She called to her ch
to rush to safety.
n and Cpl. Wood upstairs
Cpl. Wood helped Patricia Ann Mitchell, 9, and Fred-
erick H. Mitchell, 14, through They crossed to the other side to the ground.
a window to the porch roof. of the double and were helped
“We heard him cough just after we got out on the porch but thought he was following us,” Frederick said.
Firemen found Cpl. Wood
and Frederick to safety.
Killed in Crash
Mrs. Martha Cordle Dies, Husband Injured
Mrs. Martha Cordle, 19 67th S8t., was killed early today in a three-car accident near Eaton, O. Her husband, Wesley, was injured seriously and their 6 year-old son, Bobble, was injured critically. Also dead in the crash was James Kinsey, 23, of Richmond, Ind. Injured in addition to Mr.
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Miss Mary M
Led Tuberculosis Fight
Services Monday
For Pioneer Worker
Miss Mary A. Meyers, pioneer campaigner against tuberculosis in Marion County, died last night at her home, 623 E. 53rd St. She was 70. ¢ Executive secretary of the sociation since its founding in The title of executive secretary emeri-
The State Highway Commission tus was given her.
million dollars. They include:
iville, contractor, $451,185. ¢l Road grading and paving on |U. 8. 52 near Lebanon, Berns |Construction Co., Indianapolis,
Lebanon, Lee Pickel Construc- | . County road construction near | Bicknell, W. T. MacDonald, In-
‘|dianapolis, $31,237. e Seize 7 With Arsenal PARIS, Mar. 6 (UP)-—Seven persons, including one American,
He asked, “Why risk the lives were arrested today and five‘tons of hundreds of motorists and of arms and munitions reported pedestrians along. the route to|destined for Jewish forces save the life or lives of other|Palestine .was seized by French police in a raid on a Paris garage. !
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Report 2 Dead in Blast CAIRO, Mar. 6 (UP) -— Two persons were reported without confirmation to have been killed
to meet “the challenge of Com- home of Haj Amin El Husseini,
exiled muftl of Jerusalem.
Bridge over Wabash River at) {Montezuma, Robert H. King, Dan- founded, she became its execu~
{ i Todd Stoops, secretary-treasur-| [day signed four construction| A native of Ironton, O., she
o er of the Hoosier Motor Club, Projects totaling more than a urged today that emergency po-| lice and fire vehicles be kept un
came here in 1904 to study nurs{ing at the old Joseph Eastman {Nurses’ Training School. When the association ‘was [tive secretary. During her long |affiliation with the organization, {she saw the sale of Christmas {seals rise from $800 to $100,000 annually. Received Acclaim Many times Miss Meyers received national recognition for her work, principally for the sale of Christmas seals which placed Indianapolis highest in the nation on a per capita basis compared with similar cities. Locally, she spearheaded the building of the Marion County Tuberculosis Hospital at Sunnyside in 1917; the establishment! of the first fresh air school here; the founding of the Julia Jameson ‘Nutrition Camp for Frail Children at Bridgeport, and the chest X-raying of students and industrial workers in the county. She was a member of Bt. Joan of Arc Catholic Church, Indiana State Nurses Association and past president, National - ization for Public Health Nurs-
eyers Dies;
HEALTH LEAD ER—Miss Mary A. Meyers, executive secretary emeritus. of the Marion
County Tuberculosis Associa-
tion, died yesterday.
tion, Mississippi Valley Conference for Tuberculosis Secretaries and past president, Altrusa Club, Indianapolis Social Workers and Indiana State Conference of Social Work. ® Services Monday Funeral services will be conducted at 9 a. m. Monday in St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church. Burial will be in Columbus, O. She is survived by three sisters, Miss Sofia Meyers, Cleveland, O.; Mrs. Rose Clifford, Columbus, O., and Mrs. Alvin Faid, Winters haven, Cal, and two brothers,
ing, American Nurses Assocja-!
Edward and Otto, both of Columbus, O. >
ito give an account of the acci-
Cordle and his son were Mrs. Kinsey, Norman Anderson, Shel byville, Ind, and Mrs, Evelyn Smith, Williamsburg, Ind. None of the injured were able
dent, Sheriff L. C. Galyean said. Mr. Cordle is an employge at the International Harvester Co. The family was believed to have been
HEROIC VICTIM—Cp!. Wood helped Patricia Ann |
's body next to the open win-
dow through which he was attempting to escape.
Unable to Enter The fire was raging so furiously on the Mitchell side of
| ithe double when firemen ar-
rived that they were unable
to enter the building immediately, The five rooms and the furnishings were destroyed completely. There is no estimate of damage and the cause of the fire has not been determined. A year ago the family had a small fire in the kitchen. The other side of the double was damaged by smoke and water. Mr. and Mrs. Truman Cron, their daughters, Barbara and Theresa, and Miss Betty Cron, sister of Mr. Cron fled to safety. - Ae Cpl. Wood, the won of Mr. and
| Mrs. Stephen D. Wood, 817 Ger-
rard Drive, had come here to visit just after re-enlisting for a three-year period. Saw Son Once Tuesday hé had sent money to | his wife in Texas so that she and their son could join him here.
ATE ME SOR Tit hoe, birth, : Mrs. Mitchell &nd Her two children escaped with only the clothes they wore. Her purse, {with $32 and two social security | checks, was destroyed. Mrs. Mitchell supports her two children from her wages at the Pal-Mer Grille, 1601 8. Meridian St. Her husband died three years
ago. Start Collection for Family Since the fire this morning, employees of the grille and neighbors have started a collection for the family, Already $40 has been given Mrs. Mitchell. Cpl. Wood arrived here last night and had spent the evening with a boyhood chum. He returned to his aunt's home after everyone was in bed. Survivors, other than his parents and his wife, Florence, and son, Frank, are two sisters, Mrs. Jack Neal and Miss Becky Wood of this city.
visiting relatives. The injured were taken to Richmond's Reid Memorial Hospital.
Editors Make Plans
To Draft Schricker
Indiana Democratic editors met
{in Indianapolis today to map a
program for drafting former Gov. Henry F. Schricker as a candidate for the 1948 gubernatorial election. The special meeting of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association was called by Marion T. Ayres, Shelbyville publisher and association president, who said he was acting under pressure by many state editors who would like to see Mr. Schricker win the Governor's chair for the d time. One of the leaders of the pro-
{Schricker movement was Herbert
Harris of Greenwood, editor of the Johnson County News and treasurer of the association.
ILLINOIS JUDGE DIES ALEDO, Ill, Mar. 8 (UP)— Oscar ‘E. Carlstrom, 69, Mercer County judge and former Illinois attorney general, died here last night. he
Washington Callinge=
If Gov. Dewey sweeps years ago, he'll go to Phil
stay in race for top spot on GO
And Mr. Taft, business favorite but weak in newspaper po must show vote-getting ability even though strike in Democratie.
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2 French Lick
Clubs Reported
Held Up, Robbed ss
Two gambling casinoes at French Lick, Ind., were held up and robbed Wednesday night, it was learned today. Attaches of the club were en route to Indianapolis today to look over the LVL bandits now in custody in the hope of iden them as the French Lick holdup men. One shot was fired into the wall {in one of the places andthe bullet will be taken to State Police headquarters to see if it had been fired from the gun used in the LVL Club holdup last Tuesday.
the French Lick robberies was jnot disclosed.
|Farnsworth Sells
'Huntington Plant
FT. WAYNE, Mar. 6 (UP)— The Farnsworth Television & Radio Corp. yesterday sold its plant at Huntington to the Majestic Co. there. Farnsworth President E. A. {Nicholas said the plant was vacated a few months ago and the facilities moved to Marion.
Next 8 Weeks May Decide GOP Presidential Contest
Primaries Slated in 4 Key States; Dewey Hints Road Tour If New Hampshire Fails Him WASHINGTON, Mar. 6—~Next eight weeks may tell story for top GOP presidential candidates. Four upcoming primaries are crucial.
up delegates as he did four adelphia with long lead. If
his vote falls far below 1944, look for that deadlock. Mr. Stassen must make good showing in these primaries to
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