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High Water To 10 States
Death Toll Soars |B To 56 in Nation pL
Indiana today is escaping dam-| aging floods which are sweeping states east and west. i While heavy rains have brought waters to many streams, the state is in no danger of serious floods, the Weather Bureau here said. Meanwhile, 10 other states which pocket Indiana, are bracing themselves against the threat of rampaging rivers in the wake of widespread storms, U. 8. engineers in Chicago said unexpected heavy rain’ may develop major fldods in several states now fighting rising water. They include North Dakota. Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York.
Death Toll Hits 58
A five-day streak of violent|P weather in the nation already! § has left 56 parsons dead in floods and fornadocs and caused untold property damage. Northern Indiana is feeling the brunt of high water in the state and many highways and lowlying areas are flooded. The Maumae River spilled over
(R. Ind.), and Bert Shia, secretary to the congressman, are enthusiastic admirers of | the first signs of spring that unseasonably warm weather brought out yesterday in ita banks near Ft. Wayne, caus.| .25nngton. The temperature hovered in the upper 80s. |
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I'M HAVING TROUBLE with my wife. I gave her a interest. Of
: te tok to my parents but they threatened to hard spanking one night because she needed it. She hasn't |y, , "cine: boarding school. 2 _ UNHAPPY, n been.a wife to me since—for six months. She says she You've. probably been unruly or your paremts
doesn’t want anything to do with men any more and wants a divorce on cruel and inhuman treatment. I know she wants another man who was my buddy overseas. ; I'm still in the Army and get home once or twice a month. We have one child. I do some drinking. at camp but don’t when I'm home for my wife and come first. situation? * GI JOE.
won't to your wife—and she needs it more than ever before. She'll like letters, calls and gifts and you'll have to be persistent and devoted to convince her.
Teen-ager ‘Sneaks Out’ for Dates SHOULD I GIVE UP all my friends and grow slowly into an old maid, or continue to sneak out on dates? My parents have broken my heart and don't understand. I'm 16 and they think I'm too young for dates. : Three nice boys ask me and I have to sneak out and meet them. That's no fun, sneaking around like a prisoner, and the boys lose
Home Is Where Your Heart Is— °
War Widow Buy $15 House
Auctioneer Accepts Her Bid in Public. |
Sale on Delinquent Homestead eo BEDFORD, Ind. Mar. 23 (UP)—A young war widow and her five children owned their own home today. They paid $15 for it—in|
Acme Telepnolo.
BASK IN CAPITAL SUN—Pat Halleck (left), daughter of Rep. Charles Halleck |
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ing several families in the Riverhaven ‘community to evacuate their homes. Nearly a dozen highways in 8t. Joseph County were blocked by water in what County Highway Superintendent Harry M. Tomlinson called the “worst conditions in 40 years.”
$100,000 Road Damage
Damage to roads was esti mated at more than $100,000 in Allen County as many bridges
Crash Near Gary
Critically Injured |
one critically injured in an auto-| mobile acicdent near Gary early |
Two Killed in Car Rites Thursday
For Mrs. Horner ; Services for Mrs. Carrie > Selection Near Horner will be held at 1 p. m.| | in Christ T | Brother of One | Church. Buriai will be in Crown
Two persons were killed and her home at 2827 Boulevard
Thursday 'emple
Mrs. Horner died Sunday In
Place. A native of Leesburg, Ky., she had lived here 44 years. She was 65.
Poison Case Jury
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Mrs. Milligan Accused Of Trying to Kill Mate
(Continued From Page One) , gmith Knightstown home, divorce suit filed by Mr. Milligan. crowd of bargain-hunters.
The wife has filed a cross com-
pending a|auctioneer
Their modest home north of Bedford went on the auction block at a county real estate sale yesterday for the collection of delinquent taxes. rs.
cash. |
(= Donna Blevins attended . . = the auction, clutching all - the| 0 p eg on | ready cash she could raise,
Her husband, Carl, died in 1946. . < | of an ailment contracted while in| the service. The husband in-| C U p ven { ’ Branch officers for the registra-| tion of voters for the May 4 primary election will be open from 2 p. m. to 6 p. m. at the following places: i
TODAY
Pire Station 15, 2101 English; Fire sta-| tion 3, 1136 Prospect; School 38, 801 8. State; School 21,
five years ago. Addresses Crowd The widow was afraid that she and her five youngsters would be evicted by whoever bought the property. But “County Auditor Donald stepped up beside the and addressed the
Couple Has Made Marriage Work
TUESDAY, ‘MAR. 2, 1948
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threa! send you away. Show your parents ho. proud of them when you indebted
entertained you % § the bom and certainly doesn’t impress your parents. These long that you gals carry on frighten parents. Laughing is fine—we need more of it—and it's a safe way to work off emotions—but can’t you show. just a little poise? You're usually going to see the persons to whom you talk
in 15 minutes anyway. "
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HUSBAND AND I have been following: your column gor ome and thought you might like to hear about someone's happiness. Trust and love have seen us through, and we're confident that our companionship will last. We agreed before that we'd sit down and talk out difficulties instead of shutting up oy differences inside us. . Ao husband and I, 29 and 24, were married two years ago atte knowing each other nine months. We think we have a marriage a near perfect as one can be. It wasn’t a “bed of roses” and we have
and in to meet half-way. without me but when he does I know I can trust him, as If one of us gets a little disgusted we stop to good points the other person has and the bad ones becom
Remembering that you wouldn't trade husbands your friends helps, too, doesn’t it? I hope you'll specific problems. ;
Question on Planned Parenthood NT believe married couples should have children until sev eral Loy after they are married, until they have some idea whether or not they will get along. What is your opinion? M.D. That decision depends on age and finances, as well as compatibility, I believe. Expecting an infant to reconcile quarreling grownups isn’t sensible. Building a human life is more important than building a home, yet parents often fail to plan for their baby by checking their health and figuring finances. I'd think you'd know in two years if you're grown up enough emotionally to have a baby.
First Wife Writes for Money
SBAND’'S FIRST wife keeps us nervous by writing him for MY Huse their crippled son, 18. She says he is under a doctor's care but he doesn’t go near o Qocto} and she won't send us the 3 . We know he is able to work. Soo SD bund required to pay support after a boy is 18, need he send extra money for doctor bills, and could the ex-wife be made to send the name of the doctor? He sends $7 a week and never gets to see him. CITY READER.
Supporting a crippled son isn’t as dangerous to.your mar. riage oh EE your husband to lose self-respect by ignor-
other members
giving them 2a “ car auction whe:
cars with bogus
Raymond F. (I of 223 E. 17th St another h. , He is bein ig Comat) jail. members ¢ a bond. The last November. Curry and Ivo with conspiracy National Motor Act and the 1 Property Act.
“and culverts were washed out.
“This property is occupied by a
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815 English. ©. roMonROW A ing fatherhood. ’ E sebitt STRA ; 2 must, bu were JA Stn 20,298 Be E200 3 Anke lawyer those legal questions, if you SAYS
| you I'd let my husband's conscience guide him. He expects you to | be with him in rough spots. Remember,
y. The dead are Lee Nafe Jr. 2, of Chicago, and Frank Moore! 16, of Roseville, Mich. In critical condition at Mercy Hospital in Gary is Richard “Nafe, 20, of Michigan City, a brother of the
The Weather Bureau here sald there is no great danger of damaging floods along the White and Wabash River systems. The Wabash above Peru is falling. Flood stage or slightly above is at Lafayette, Covington and Terre Haute, but’ it is expected to affect bottom
‘lands only, There is high water on the West fork the White River| Taohe:
They said the car left the nigh-| way, rolled over and crashed into a utility pole. All three occupants!
from Indianapolis to Shoals and low flood stages from Elliston to Edwardsport, Paul Miller, Chief Meterologist, said that at least another half inch of rain could be absorbed
In Indianapolis, Mrs. Ruth West, 25, of 1256 W. Ray St., was
Willis F. Horner; a daughter, dead man. IM State police said Lee Nafe was Mich.; two scns, Marcellus and driving a car east on U. 8. 12, Willis H. Horner, both of Infour miles east of Gary, at a|dianapolis; high rate of speed when he ap-| Gabrielle Jackson and Mrs. parently lost control of the auto-| Catherine Pryor of New York City and Mrs. Zelma Cheetam, Indianapolis, and three grandchildren.
were thrown clear and police said | "(ape . y they found them more than » Hel | feet from the car. i
‘ She was a member of Christ Temple Church, and the Dorcas Workers, Survivors are the husband,
rs. Viola Bowden of Flint,
three sisters, Mrs.
without causing danger of severe floods.” :
reported in fair condition at
Other Aress Hard Hit Conditions are expected to cleflf) rapidly, howe , a8 the rains are likely to stop this afternoon.
worst trouble spots were at Binghamton,
More than 150 volunteers worked all night strengthening a levee at Quincy which threatened to burst as the Mississippi River rose toward a temporary crest. Another crest is heading down the Des Moines River and probably will hit the Mississippi ~ tomorro
Ww, Capt. A. L. Ford, Coast Guard information office: at St. Louis, said two task forces had heen sent to Quincy to help lowland residents evacuate, . ; ‘Binghamton was nearly isolated by the Susjuehanna and Chenango Rivers which flooded 3200 homes and forced 1500 families to flee. About 5000 children remained away from school. All highways around the city were flooded.
N. D. Residents Flee Many residents of Mandan, N. D,, left their homes for high ground as a thaw forced more water into the Heart River. The Blue River forced scores from their homes at Seward and Beatrice, Neb.
The Rock and Pecatonica Rivers were falling rapidly ‘in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin,
Erie, Ill, on ‘the Rock River was isolated early today but roads into town were expected to be opened this afternoon,
« The Allegheny River was rolling toward an expected crest: of 22.5 “feet, 2.5 feet under flood stage. The Allegheny and its tributaries were falling after flooding parts of Meadville, Warren, Bradford, Titusville and Youngville,
a. Water Surrounds Hospital Warren, Pa., was nearly isolat-
ed with the city’s General Hos- that he had thrown into the)
Methodist Hospital after being
Of Own Daughter
injured in a two-car accident at x Senate Ave, and OhiouRt iii Mother Accused by Kin dolpn Ea Sar 4 By Ru ‘Of Former Husband fontaine St, was making a left! An Indiarapolis woman was
turn into Ohio St. when the car In which Mrs. West was riding crashed into it. Driver of the other car was George L. West, 23, of the Ray St. address,
free on $1000 bond today after her arrest for “kidnaping” her own daughter. Mrs. Earl Hammond was arrested by State Police on a highway near Glenns Valley, Ind. after she and her husband had taken Mrs. Hammond's 8-year-old daughter, Diane Davis, from a Bedford, Ind., grade school and! returned her to their home here, | authorities said. | The 34-year-old mother told,
Patrolman Gets Socked With Fist In Hunt for Worms
went looking for fishing worms her first marriage to Raymond In Garfield Park last night and|Davis. a barber, and that: she ended up catching one prisoner [had been awarded custody of]
after some yun play and a fist the child after she divorced Mr.
Patrolman Wurtz, in plain clothes saw two men trying automobile doors on Shelby St. “What are you doing?" he asked of them.
plied one. The officer placed them under arrest. ~ " » PRESENTLY one man holted and ran. Officer Wurtz opened fire on him but misséd and the man escaped. At the same time the other suspéct turned on Patrolman Wurtz and began to fight him with his fists,
Patrolman Wurtz said he had
to slug the prisoner on the head with his gun to subdue him.
“None of your business” re-| Police.
| Davis in 1944. Diane had been taken to the {home of Mr. Davis’ brother at | Bedford, after Mrs. Hammond {went to Florida last October on |advice of her physician, she told
kidnaping warrant was is- | on an affidavit signed by | Mrs. Elsie Davis, sister-in-law of Mrs. Hammond's™ former husband. Diane and her three other children were in the custody of | Mrs, Davis, Mrs. Hammond said. {LEAVES TO SPARE | A stately New England elm at {the height of summer has as {many as 7 million leaves, says
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plaint. The poisoning charges grew out (five children,” he said. “She has of a letter which the wife is|very little income.”
alleged to have written to her|
sister in Texas, in which she is his gavel on a table. iquoted as saying: “I'll soon be I bid?” he asked.
rid of Old Gooseneck.” Taken to VA Hospital The sister sent the letter to their brother, Franklin deputy sheriff. Almost simultaneously the husband was rushed to the Veterans’ Admin-
" id. istration Hospital where physi-{¢an bid,” he sa cians diagnosed his illness as going to point out, as Smith did, |children now ‘live there. then, what am I bid.”
arsenic poisoning. After an investigation started by her brother, Mrs. Milligan
was arrested and charged with,
the attempted killing. . |
The husband's illness delayed],
the trial several times. Mrs. Milligan was released oa bond and was arrested and sentenced to six months in the Women's Prison on charges of contributing to the delinquency of minor children. She was released in February and immediately taken into custody to face trial. Enter Not Guilty Plea Yesterday she entered no plea, standing mute. The court automatically entered a not guilty
plea. t
" Her defense attorneys then|inal Court 2 today charged with,
filed a special plea of unsound-| ness of mind at the time of the alleged poisoning, charging that the wife was temporarily un-
Patrolman Clarence Wurtz police Diane was a daughter by balanced because of mistreat- 02> Edgemont St, and Hugh
ment by the husband. | She earlier had been quoted as saying that she “only gave him] a little” to keep him from beating her. Three physicians were named to make a sanity inquest. * At the time of the ‘arrest Mrs. Milligan signed a statement and deputies found a sack of arsenate of lead in the couple’s home. The poison was among evidence which will be suppressed, because of a faulty search warrant. The prosecution said, however, that Mrs. Milligan later voluntarily revealed whereabouts of two vials of poison, saying that she used it and not the sack of poison. This evidence was not involved in the search warrant ruling.
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from which he is supposed to have soaked the body. He de-
which he is supposed to have chopped off the hands and foot.
|of a buffet drawer and shot Miller.
| But later in the day, he said there about 8 a. m. the day atter 108% and take them to the city
| disposal {when two state policemen told
Hits at Accusers
pital surrounded by water and White River the knife with which| He refuted statements attrib-
the town's two newspapers, the Times-Mirror and Herald, flooded. Boats were used to move patients to and from the hospital. Water undermined the wall of a hotel at Bradford, forcing 50 guests to flee. High water also was reported in the outskirts of Wilkes-Barre and Kingston.
Canada also was hit hard. Floods in southern Ontario were receding after taking a toll- of four deaths and $5 millien in property damage. The Grand River rose to a 17foot stage, five feet above normal. In eastern Quebec, the St. Francis River backed up behind an ice jam and left one dead and 100 homeless. :
Man Killed in Fire
BALTIMORE, Mar. 23 (UP)— One man was killed, _ others were injured last night when a seven-alarm fire swept through the Baltimore Paint & Color Works. The victim, tentapoly identified as John Ober- , was trapped under fall-
and two
{he says Miller threatened him the [night of the shooting. That knife, he said, is on display as a prosecution exhibit, and is the same one taken from him at the time {of his arrest in Kentucky.
As the defense knocked down statements about the disposition of the body of Miller, it became increasingly apparent that some: body was going .to have to answer the question of who did dis | pose of it.
Pollard Charges Threat His testimony was interrupted for a few minutes this morning for Dr, A. H, Sullenger, who took X-rays of Pollard’s neck at City Hospital in 1945. Actually, Dr. | Sullenger was completely blocked |in his testimony by the prosecu{tion in his effort to show that a {bullet fired by Miller still was {lodged in the defendant's neck. | In his day-long appearance on {the stand yesterday, Pollard admitted going to his home at 1812 Spann Ave. with Miller, He contended ‘Miller menaced him with a “push button” knife and that in self defense he whipped a 38-caliber revolver out
{uted to him by prosecution wit{nesses that he had disposed of | Miller's body in a flaming cabin near Ladoga. He denied that he ever had claimed anything but self-defense. Previous testimony indicated that his self-defense plea did not appear until after he had consulted an attorney. Pollard testified that he tried time and again to tell his story of {self-defense but that state police [refused to accept a statement on that basis.
His first statement in writing was made in Marion County jail Apr. 19, 1946, more than a week after the shooting. Even that statement, however, Pollard rejected. He said he had not dictated it, had not even read it before signing it. So He contended that the fotary public who .attested its validity had not placed him under oath. The defense, further, has attempted to show that Pollard was in his father’s home asleep during the time when he is supposed to have been disposing of the body. Mrs. Wanda Glover, a neighbor,
ish, in Mexico.
Pollard Continues to Make Denials Of State Charges in Miller Slaying Trial
{said she was in the home of {Pollard’s parents and saw Pollard
nied possession of the ax with | his first knowledge of the grisly the shooting. | of Miller's body was| Indications were that the only!
{¢andidates left on whom to pin
He also denied a statement! him about it almost a week later./the dismemberment of the body
[were a mysterious man whom IMrs. Glover didn't know, and {Harry Adams, the reluctant witness. Both of them, she said, left the Pollard home shortly {after she arrived. | Adams, state reformatory convict, who is believed to be the only eyewitness to the shooting, has refused to testify. He is listening to the defense testimony from the sidelines. Prosecution attorneys hope that any attempt to saddle him with the butchery of the victim's body will cause Adams to spill his story of the shooting. While Pollard floundered considerably in his testimony yesterday, the prosecution was having its troubles, too. Marion County Prosecutor Judson Stark twice tangled with Judge John B. Hinchman yesterday, both times receiving stern {reprimands from the bench. | On the second occasion, after a bitter exchange of words over a
war widow who is the mother of
Proves He's Alive, |
that first wife and son were a serious part of his life. .
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is a public auction and anyone
gavel broke the silence.
Auctioneer Mark Boyd rapped “What am
Raises Her Hand
There was a small babble of but the auctioneer in-
“I've got to point out that this “But I'm also
at a young mother and her
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Mrs. Blevins raised one hand. ‘I'll bid $15,” she cried. The auctioneer’ didn’t wait for higher bid. The rap of his
“Sold to the lady for $15.”
$3000 Holdup Trial Opens Here
Two men, one serving a term in the State Reformatory, went on trial before a jury in Crim-
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the $5000 holdup of a tavern] here last Juiy. | They are Joseph Taylor, 22, of |
Bradley, Relormatory prisoner. | The defendants were identified by one witness as the bandits who held up John McCarty at his tavern, 2140 N. Illinois St. escaping with $5000, { A third defendant in the case! was Tommy Gardner, who did! not go on trial because he is serving a life sentence for the kidnaping and rape of a South! Side girl here last October.
Sheriff Asks Council for $31,000
|" The County Council today con-| sidered requests for. extra appropriations totaling $78,700, including $31,000 asked by Sheriff Al Magenheimer for 15 more depu[ties and. a truck to catch stray dogs.
| “The stray dog problem has, become serious and we must do {something about it,” Sheriff Magenheimer said. “We need the {truck and a driver to pick up
und.’ . The sheriff asked for enough money to hire 14 more deputies |at $210 a month in order to keep {24-hour patrols going on high(ways. County commissioners asked 7000 to purchase more livestock land a pasteurizing plant for the Julietta County Home. i
Pedestrian, 67, Struck
By Bus Downtown |
Howard Neal, 67, of 55615 W.| Washington St., is in a serious condition in General Hospital| after being hit by an Indianapolis Railway Co. bus at Washington! and West Sts. today. | He suffered a dislocated shoul-| der and injuries to his forehead and back. | The driver of the bus which! struck Mr. Neal was Robert G. Richmond, 26, of 2944 N. Talbot St. Police charged him with! reckless driving and failure to give a pedestrian the right of way.
CRISCO PRICE AGAIN CUT
prosecution objection, Judge Hinchman told the prosecutor: | “The fewer times you insult my intelligence, the better off you're going to be. I'll fine you for contempt of court if you're not care-
CINCINNATI, Mar. 23 (UP)—! A. 2-cent per pound reduction in the wholesale price of Crisco vegetable shortening was announced today by Procter & Gamble. Previous cut of 2 cents
Joins Marines
an official order to convince re-| cruiters that he is not dead. {
his “death” from the Veterans ing the day. Administration last January@and adopt a when he asked for compensationt, e to stand up and say it's wrong to have a glass of beer or a
for a 40-month ordeal in Jap- .ocktail occasionally? anese prison camps. |
list, the Marine Corps questioned: a helping hand.to neighbors her religion would do her a lot his status.. So he got an officially pe order from the VA to prove he isi; fnd out if someone is good enough to give advice to those having alive. :
believed he was listed “killed in action” when he was captured on Corregidor early in the war.
sald.
Praised on Efforts to Aid People
ANT TO commend you on your sincere ‘efforts to hélp people NEW ORLEANS, Mar. 23 py, 1 Wa help. I like you—and I like the way you answer letters,
—Sgt. Lewis Ballard of Walker, yo, show sound common sense and a sympathetic understanding La., was back in the Marines for|and I know you are doing a lot of good. Even if they don't take another hitch today after he got your advice,
sometimes just being able to sell somebody {Sives Shen o see thi clearer and their problems solve themselves, s ee if Mrs H. W. has nothing else to do but criticize othlers who are trying to give a helping hand to someone in distress. Sgt. Ballard received news of T wonder if she practices her professed Christianity many times durMany so-called Christians attend church every Sunday “holier-than-thou”. attitude but become intolerant of everything they don't care for. What right has any-
{anything and Mavbe if Mrs. H. W. and others like her would give a daya When he attempted to re-en-| eek Sy hs local charities or give blood to the Red Cross or hold and she wouldn't be so inclined to spend her time trying enough confidence to ask for it. A PRACTICING CHRISTIAN.
It's nice to know I have trusting friends. I'll try not let you down.
Let Mrs. Manners and readers of the column share your problems and answer your questions. Write in care of The Times, 214 W. Maryland St.
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