Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 September 1948 — Page 1

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FORECAST: Stowers tonight Cool, cloudy tomorrow. ‘Low tonight, 65, High tomorrow, 78.

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NEXT DOOR TO DEATH Mrs. Dick Patterson surveys the ruins of her fourhome, destroyed by lightning and. fire early today. Bifferson was ‘next door, spending ‘the. night with her sister.

NARROW 'ESCAPE—This lucky foresome escaped with minor burns when lightning struck their bedrooms as they slept early today. They are (left to right) Anna Cozine, 8, sitting ‘on the lap of her brother, Earl, 18; Charlotte, | 1, and Dorothy, 17, all children of Mr, and Mrs. Frank -Cozine, 544 N. Traub Ave.

When Harl Wilson, day, you'll read gems like:

this: or a kiss fool you.”

miere like:

mer... make hush-hush news.

Happened Last Night.”

Earl Wilson. EXCLUSIVE features.

Night" . . . on Thursday . every day thereafter Times,

“Never let a fool kiss you, , . Or observations at a show pre-

“I found this year's first night women messy instead of dressy. They've got plump this past sum-

Or , .. the gossip aboyt the night-clubbing New Yorkers and the glamorous Hollywood stars whose names and “antics” often

Earl Wilson writes in a crisp, fast-moving style that will keep you alert eich moment you are reading his famous column—"Iti78 tomorrow.

ONLY in The Times will you find “It Happened Last Night” by change. A low of 85 is expected It’s another star|tonight. The mercury may reach added to The Times parade of 80 tomorrow, Watch for “It Happened Last

in "The

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Wilson's Broadway Gems Start Sparkling Thursday Columnists’ Breezy ltems on Bar Talk, Hollywood Tidbits Another Times Exclusive

the ex-8unday-school-teacher-turned-col-uninist, begins his breezy Broadway column in The Times on ‘Thurs-

“A guy walks into a 10th Ave. bar and says, ‘Since when did you have sawdust on’ the floor?” The bartender says: sawdust, It's last night's furniture.” Or old American proverbs like

“That's not

More Showers Due Here Today

Showers and occasional thunderstorms werg on the menu again for Indianapolis tonight, Last night's thunderstorm which rattled windows, covered the Hoosier capital with more than % inch of rain. The total rainfall during the last 24 hours, ending at 7 a. m., was .88 inch. Cloudy and cooler weather was predicted to accompany tonight's showers. The high yesterday

Tomorrow's skies ‘will be part-| ly cloudy, with little temperature

| LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6a m..M 10am 71 Tam... 7 11am... 73 : a mi. 7 12 (noom) 75 4,9 8 m.. 70 1p.m, . 78 » ‘

When the bolt struck

Weather Note: Plan for Circle Xmas Decoration

SRR THERE are only 80 shopping days until Christmas. So what? So the Indianapolis Christmas Committee met yesterday—took {off coats and rolled up sleeves for {relief from the sweltering temperatures—and laid plans for installing the annual Yuletide decorations on Monument Circle. The decorations will go "up about Dec. 1.

A. C. SALLEE, who will be-

come: director of the City: Park

and Recreation Department when Paul V. Brown goes to Seattle, Wash., next week, was named to the board of directors. Noble L.

_|Biddinger was reappointed chair.

man of the committee to raise funds for the project. The committee preséntéd Mr. Brown with a letter lauding his work with the Monument Circle decorations project. The committee will meet again on Oct. 18.

Teen-ager Called ‘In Johnson Trial

GREENSBURG, Sept. 21 — Vera Jean Hornbeck was called to the stand before noon recess today to give an eyewitness account of the slaying of Trooper erbert W. Smith two years ago as the re-trial of William John-

son Bot unliereny,

|e ie Tr Kany iy city gun battle pial 3

Mark Purcell ready to

ed by lance {nternes.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1048

Four Burned By Lightning

not hear the bolt strike her, home.

Earl, 18—all were burned by th lightning flash which struck thelr home at 2 a. m. They were treatGeneral Hospital ambu-

Two other children who were

asleep in the same beds were uninjured.

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predict weather for winter s2:sxeazee lage 3

Russ prod Big 4 to re-

move Berlin troops, Page 7

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Other Inside Features

Amusements. Bridge

6| National Aff. 14,

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Business ... 7 0 ives 15] M. Childs... 14 rds... 5 Con..cs .... 21|Mrs.Roos'v’lt 16]

14|Ruark ..... 13) 14{8ide Glances 14 17|8ociety .... 16 LL 11 Teen Probs.. 16 Weather: 7 6| Women's, .. 17

shorter.

Once in awhile there will be a lull in the sweet music that 3 has filled the hot Hoosier, summer nights, as though the in-

Rs They Sleep

Four Cozine children—Anna, 8; : |{Charlette, 11; Dorothy 17, ane

17| F.C. Othman 13| revisions in the budget ‘“‘recom-

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Hurricane St Florida ‘Holes Up’

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Mic.ni Winds High, | MIAMI, Fla., Sept. 21 into the island city of Key

rikes;

Last Key West Bus [Picks Up Passengers. Fleeing Before Storm

Breakers Lash Highway to Mainland;

from the Florida straits at 95 miles per hour and up hit the sprawling U. S. naval air and sea base, where President Truman has his “Little White House.” An 7:30 a. m., Indianapolis Time, advisory said the

Sky Overcast | (UP)—A hurricane slammed West today. Winds roaring in

{Strife Marks

some gusts blowing 95 miles an hour.

northward, Miami,

Upper right shows an artists's conception of a hurricane’s "eye." where the winds today were blowing counterclockwise at 100 miles

an hour.

WINDS OF WRATH-—Arrow indicates the course of a Carribbean hurricane which slammed into Key West, Fla, With the storm headed oisting its hurricane warnings, battened down.

Ballot Battle

Rival Leaders Here

today with

center of the hurricane, where the winds were whirls ing counterclockwise at 100 miles per hour, was 45 miles dus

Maneuver Jor Peace BY NOBLE

Center Township Levy Set at $4.44;

valuation next year

sown. 10. 84.28 sor

high of $4.51 in Wayne Township Township city residents.

will be $4.44. i The ate in the county was for the levy

will be $5.52 and "the lowest $1.77 for rural’ residents of Decatur | Township. The rates were fixed og the Mawe Board County Tax

new Center inside ‘| apolis Fis ia" cana above th uit wi hot ue be he

iv*vieh he’ said he drafted himself over a week-end. It set out the a

mended by the board.” “It was unnecessary fo confer (h with the other members of the!

board, I am in a position to feel the pulse of the members.”

Other members sald they had Sane.

peeping (Continued on Page 8—Col, 5) with a

Times Expands Grid ‘Clinic ® Two more All-Ameri-can features #re added today to The Times Foot-

ball “clinic” . . . to keep you abreast of the game.

‘® Famous plays — and HOW to make those gains on the field —are told by Ed Dooley, former All-American quarterback. His “Know Your Football” starts on today’s sports pages.

® Ratings of the top teams, to help you make your predictions of winners, is provided today also by Paul B. Williamson, nationally famgus for his scientific calculations.

® Then . and Monday, there's the FOOTBALL. column: by Frank Lea hy, Notre Dame's famous coach.

It's The Times that covers the field in Football in Indianapolis. @ Turn to Page 10.

«+ on Friday _

sects had stopped for a moment perhaps with a thought into the future. If you listen hard, you can detect a little tremulous note once in awhile in the midst of the lulls. The rubbing of the grasshoppers’ wings is a little less vibrant and the crickets’ fiddling: isn't quite as sharp. The insects know that the first Indiana frost isn’

ward. They were examining the Jength and thickness of cornusks. They were critically, speculatively stroking the fur of woolly caterpillars, noting the ckness of the stripes. All the little signs lof Mother Nature were

lore prepared to make their predictions.

AT 6 a. m. today Mrs. Marjgaret Gale wiped the dishwater from her hands and went to the door of her farmhouse on, old State Road 3, two miles north of Rushville’s Court She peered at the old yellow |vane-horse on top. bars standing in the center of

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Local Tax Rate Ranges Go === From *1.77 to Record *5.52

Highest Assessment Made at Clermont . Indianapolis Marion Coun idents today faced all-time BEL RST TR eB

Residents Inride Jndiarepolis Will PAY Fatés 1

Gravely by Police

A 24-year-old wPesping Tom” jTiY today 1g in ot

their bullets new lodged in the man's back. Police records show that Cabellas as been convicted twice previ: line Ie board.” Mr. Ober remarked: to a OUsly on “Peeping Tom" charges. IE the Dano ra pio

On his last arrest in " Januarylin newspaperman during the board's! J noon recess. “As chairman of the| S038 ossph Howard ordered al a| Lieutenants ot yu Boston

, retired The test showed Cabel to olga in the front Tine thameies of He was convicted on thelth Boetcher

charge, and fined $25 himself ¢ wil not take an active 60-day sentence suspendsd part, (Ce

If Woolly Worms Wrap Up, Unwrap the Winter

Mark Purceil, Homespun Hoosier Prophet, Studies Weather Vanes to Compile Forecast By THE WEATHER EDITOR. bo The beautiful summer concerts of the crickets, the| katydids and the grasshoppers are falling a little in their| volume these nights. The concerts are getting Just a little

THE WIND BLOWS SOFTLY—Farmer Fred Gale th fully observes the weather vane atop his barn near Rushville, culation of the wind direction for the next three days will enable

Rush County Amateur Weather Forecasipr Mark Purcell to fell us [cold winter: what kind of a winter we will have, says Mr, Purcell, ‘|haven't large ‘enough to tell.

lightning rod with its eh bre m. for the next three days.

She carefully noted which way wind's direction. 22 acres of corn and alfalfa|the low Fall wind was blowing. and took a searching look at the| Every hour, from 6 a. m. to 7jher notes to

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MEANWHILE, as Mr. awaited the material with wh to do his figuring

and long, said to be nature's pros against the rigors of &

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Gale will jot down: the|

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