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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1948
GAR Boys in Blue to Sound Final Taps Here New Attack
use bins RUSSIAN Fires
Keach Warning
ach ing At Germans in
in Curbing Crime | City officials warned Indianap-| olis citizens today that proper po-|
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FE * » ou ee Gl MP's Take Cover U.S. Declared
As Gunplay Opens lig to Wage 4 Blocks Inside Line Atomic War
The warning was issued follow- | ing another wave of street at-| tacks in which a 53-year-old East Reason for Shooting Still Unclear; U. S. Officials Discount Incident Only Nation Ready, BERLIN, Sept. 30 (UP)—One German civilian was| Canadian Tells UN | By R. H. SHACKFORD |! E]
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losses later, Called False Econmy “Citizens who oppose higher tax rates fail to realize it is false economy to cut the police budget and then pay heavy costs ef increased crime,” Mr. Keach said. “We have grown faster than anyone realized in the past’ few years and now find ourselves forced to work under a program, that is far too inadequate for a good job, ) “We have a sound program of law enforcement worked out for all districts of the city but the manpower is far too short for
Side woman was dragged off the |street and raped by an assailant! near her home. Safety Board President J. Le wounded and an American military police patrol was forced to take cover today when a Russian soldier fired into a small{ United Press Stait crowd of Germans inside the U. 8. sector of Berlin, pan, Set a. ve The Soviet soldier who fired several shots was one of | ;jniea States. alone has enough three who crossed the boundary of the American sector
Roy Keach said recent budget re-| ductions that will prevent expan-| about five miles south of ‘ y Tempelhof Airdrome. Purple Homes . Turning Brown
DRUMMER BOY—John C. Adams, Jonesboro, was a drummer boy at 17 with the Union forces. Now 101 years old and "very * weak" he still asked his family for news of the GAR convention and hoped to see "the boys" next year. This picture was taken on his 99th birthday.
GAR YOUNGSTER—The younger of Indiana's two Civil War veterans, .100-year-old Wiliam E. Whittinghill, sat in a big easy chair in his home in Lebanon today and looked ahead to final encampment of the GAR in Indianapolis next year. God willing, he said, he would answer final muster.
sion of the police department were | They escaped back in to the
“false economy” that will cost] the citizens heavily in crime Russian sector after the shooting. There was no explanation
carrying it out,” Mr. Keach added. | of their presence in the U. 8, area. Assembly's “ ” of the = = =» x = =» “However, we will do the best we Russians Retreat American plan international { Me | can with the tools and men we| The Russian soldier fired into Southsi control of atomic weapons, and i fuman n es Union Veterans ote to ake pve er have and that is all we can do.” |the German crowd just as a U. 8, uthsider Notes Russia's objections to it. ° ° ’ “Must Emergency” military police patrol, summoned, Odor of Gas The United States offer still . * L ¥ SE d 3 i d I . . » Police Chief Rouls reiterated|by German police, reached the . stands, the | A Nl Tour an in n wmnapo IS Dies in Ho ital earlier statements that hiring|scene. The “purple homes” are autumn| The UN i fl . more policemen to walk “beats”| The Americans took cover and brown today. Group First Met Here 82 Years Ago; out in the residential districts has did not fire. The new shade was received
President to Speak
Six Attend Grand Rapids Convention
Widely Known Here
become a ‘must emergency.” After the shooting, two other
last night, according to a group
Despite the budget reductions which he said almost eliminated his expansion program for next year, Chief Rouls asserted that he “will have to take some kind of emergency action tg get patrol. men out in the districts.” Last night's rape victim said
Soviet soldiers appeared from a nearby woods, and all three then retreated into the Russian sector. The incident occurred about four blocks within the American sector, net its . othetn exremity. First mil police re-/she noticed a strong odor of ports had indicated two Germans last night and a large nr were wounded. | dirt in the air. The exterior of It was the first outbreak of her home carries a number of
violence involving gunfire in the| large brown spots which it did not Berlin area in some three weeks, have yesterday.
of South Side residents who live to the north of the Citizens Gas & Coke Utility's Prospect St.| th plant, 2 Mrs, Charles Miller, 438 8. Gray 8t., v'hose home was tinted, sald
At Evansville Today
President Truman swung into] Indiana ‘from ‘the Illinois coal fields this morning for his first Hoosier appearance of the cam-
: By DONNA MIKELS Final muster for the few surviving “boys in blue” will be sounded here next year as the Grand Army of the Republic holds its last convention in Indianapolis, site of its first national meeting 82 years ago. > Six old soldiers, only ones of the 28 surviving Union veterans who were able to attned this year’s meeting in Grand Rapids, Mich,,
voted yesterday to hold “just one fr Ee 0 2 tung avs 0 sen ga Skranly Bosng. front nun Ses (nb 26 of Indianapolis’ invitation to meet Sua) session in 1049—"God will| 00g Tack Dillon, the bid Hoosier [Keystone Ave., into an alley with
here. . . reat lightheavyweight boxing that he would shoot her Their decision brough a spark| A bronze plaque on the Colonial Bearcat ligh 1g! g|threats
In Sports Circles Edwin W, (Steve) Harter, wellknown Indianapolis sports figure, died in St. Vincent's Hospital last night after a long illness. He was 55. Mr. Harter was a former In-
gn. He was to make a major political talk in Evansville, speaking from a platform .erected
Political Talks Today
hampion when Dillon was - he screamed. and American authorities were| Several weeks ago, the Miller NATIONAL of hope to Indiana's two surwiv- Furniture store marks the site Fig ap comeback after rr i re assailant pushed her to{not inclined to"view it very seri- house and others go the : WFBM—9:00 to 9:30, Presi: (In8 Civil War veterans, John C.[of the first. national GAR con-| 0 orig title in the 176spound|the pavement, she sald, and in|ously. took on a purple hue. The plant “dent Truman: :..- ."’|Adams, Jonesboro, and W, KE.|vention back in 1866, Then the Pg Bo GIG OP MOT STUGEIen-asesuited). The-negva) ar had taken-a new |of the gas utility was blamed, is WIRE—8:30. to 9:00, Gov. {Whittinghill, Lebanon, neither of Morrison Opera House Mr. Harter also served ak sec- her and then ran down the alley|turn earlfer foday, however, when Rain Is ¥actor . ot Dewey. whom were able to make the long Meridian and : retary of the old Indianapolis|out of sight. the American-controlled : % filled and overflowing with the selon of 8 : BE LOCAL “, jteip to Grand Rapids. a . up which was Federal League club in 1914 when | went to the home of a|RIAS, prineigal Propagands. ) ! “the. plant at WEFBM—10:15 to 10:20, Charles rts Are Set onion the Sear before in De.|it Won the pennant in what Was bor and was taken to Gen-/let of the U. 8. here, was jammed. “emits hydrogen 1 Fleming, Démocratic candidate y pots of the oq soldiers, thelr Span + of the “boys in KDOWN at the time as the “third|eral Hospital for treatment. 3 William R Httich. Columbl Under certain climatic ‘conditions sald ¢ for Secretary of State. amilies say, “have their hear an major league.” Police found her purse, um-/0., rector, said after six|the WISH.-630 to 6:35, Harry |set” on being present when taps|blue” were looking forward to Jor leagu 2 the gas is blowh down over the
He also served as secretary when the club was transferred to Newark, N. J, and remained
brella and one shoe in the alley at uscene of the attack. 3 “an hour later police were
hours of Investigation that there was no doubt the transmitter was being interfered with, :
a future in which “the men who bore arms to save the Union would work with matching ardor
homes. If the structures are wet
by rain, he says, they discolor when the gas con! them,
is sounded for the GAR. Most of the present convention news has been kept from Mr.
Latham, State Committee. WIBC—10:10 to 10:15, Judge
Demecratic
" there until the circuit disbanded. called to 27th and Clifton Sts.| Radio RIAS not only has built : stated today Warren W. Martin, Democratic |Adams, who gov bedfast. “It (fOr peace. _ Belonged to Lodges . |where a 15-year-old girl reported/up “a large German listening hry are Ret hat war candidate for Indiana Appel- [upsets him because he wanted to Total 400,000 In his days as a professional|that a man slipped up behind her + but also has become an him regularly and that they are late Court. go so badly,” his daughter, Mrs.| Only once in their convention|boxing promoter, Mr. Harter|on the street and grabbed her im t adjunct to the Anglo- | ) . v “toward WIRE—§:30 to 6:35, Hobart |Maude Stranahan, explained. De-|did they look back. That was| brought many leading lights of|arms.. * } American air lift. Recently it has! 1 1 of condition, HowCreighton. | spite his absence, his comrades |to sound three cheers for Samuel the ring to Indianapolis and had| Her screams attracted a manibeen operating 24 hours a day to ever, he added at best it would be re-elected him adjutant and Downing, the lone survivor of|a great deal to do with sending{walking across the street and insure pilots a continual radio six months before any control on the north side of the Vander- quartermaster. Mr. Adams has|the Revolutionary war. Few|Bud Taylor, the Térte Haute/when he came running to her| beam leading to Berlin.
burgh County Courthouse. Earlier he was to have made a brief appearance in Mt. Vernon. After his Evansville talk, President Truman will go to Louisville fér’ a speech tonight which will be-broadcast over CBS from 9 to 9:30"p. m., Indianapolis Time. ,Prominent Democrats will accompany the President through Indiana. They will board his train at Carmi, Ill According to Democratic state héadquarters, Henry F. Schricker, the party's candidate for gover-
been in failing health since his 101st birthday, Aug. 17. His “younger” fellow Hoosier veteran, 100-year-old Mr. Whittinghill, was “up and around” his home in Lebanon today. Recalling other glorious GAR conventions in the Hoosier capital Mr.
Teddy's Widow
Dies in Sleep NEW YORK, Sept. 30 (UP)—
thought about who would be the last survivors of their war. Their next convention here was in 1881, as the group was becoming ‘a national organization of tremendous influence and power. They talked peace, politics and a camp fire meeting heard reading by a rising young poet, James {Whitcomb Riley. By its next national convention in Indianapolis in 1893 the GAR had reached an enrollment of
more than 400,000. Its importance
division. Mr. Harter was born in Indianapolis in the Brightwood district Oct. 19, 1892, The late Damon Runyon, sportsman and author, referred to Mr. Harter as one of the last of the “men-about-town.” He was well-known along New York's Broadway and in Florida, where he vacationed every winter. Mr. Harter was a long-time member of the Indianapolis Athletic Club, the 702 Club there, the Shrine, Scottish Rite,
bantamweight, to the top in that
rescue the assailant fled down an alley, She said her assailant had “two or three dogs” with him. A 87-year-old Sheridan Ave. woman reported that a man tried to grab her purse as she was
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Wool, Butter Mark
Downward Trend NEW YORK, Sept. 30 (UP)—
Car Hits Truck Woman Killed
2 Injured in Crash At 16th and Meridian
A Brownsburg woman was killed in a traffic crash near her
can be installed and a year before the entire situation can be cleared
up. { The utility has never admitted {blame for the discolored homes. {It has, however, begun a study {of its air pollution problems. Gas utility officials could not be reached for comment on today's developments.
Feeney Ready to Sign $3 Million Utility Issue
. . was recognized by city merchants, Capital/New low prices for the year on nor, will be unable to join the Mrs. Edith Kermit Carow Roose- | 8 y city ew low pi y
velt, widow of President Theodore
President. Mr. Schricker is cam-|p,qcevelt, died early today at her
paigning in Lake County and cannot get to Evansville in time, Fi Sagamore Democrats said. Bay. Tong Ts. More than 200 police officers land She was 87 and soldiers from “Camp Breck-| Mrs. Roose. | enridge, Ky., were mobilized tol elt died in her guard the President's route from| : re so the Louisville & Nashville Rail-f °'F- °F SOF" road station to the courthouse. |. wD) ED ¢ £ Schricker Up North A or Soy The President entered Indiana v= er Bay. — ; after he campaigned by automo-| “"& 5 S hi pv bile this morning throughythe soft ured her hip in coal region of Illinois in a bid for|® fall 13 years ’ hl the support of John L. Lewis|280 2nd had nop. ovelt miners, or Tor oral months |her- be . dorsement of Mr. Lewis ang his| She was survived by two chilUnited Mine Workers, the Presi. dren, Mrs. Edith Roosevelt Derby dent took his appeal for votes di-|and Archibald Bullock Roosevelt rectly to. the union's rank-and-file|°f Cold. Spring Harbor, and a during a 141-mile motor trip. stepdaughter, Mrs. Alice RooseHe planned to reboard his cam-|Velt Longworth of Washington, paign train later for Evansville. C. His GOP rival, Gov. Thomas E
an important foreign policy ad-|Kermit Roosevelt.
dress tonight at Salt Lake City.| in Both candidates’ speeches. will Hill: EM ye the death of his first wife, Mrs.
Some in 1884.
“Three of her sons preceded her
Dewey, moved through Idaho and|in death—Brig. Gen. Theodore J.|agriculture marketing investigainto Via where ug wil! deliver| Roosevelt, Quentin Roosevelt and ior, said today that no site has Her husband peen selected for a new produce died on Jan. 6, 1919, at S8agamore terminal in Indianapolis and that not be recom-
i ’ Mrs, Roosevelt married T. R.|mended until the survey is combe broadcast over -a fooast toe] London on Dec. 2, 1886, after y
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Sues to Regain $1000
| Film Engagement Ring
HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 30 (UP)— {Actress Lila Leeds won't give {back his $1000 engagement ring, {Navy Lt. Richard C. Andrus, 28, [Dallas, Tex., complained today in la court suit. { The blond starlet, defendant {with Actor Robert Mitchum and {two others on narcotics charges, has ignored his entreaties to {either marry him or send back
[the ring, Mr. Andrus said. Now
{stationed at Newport, R. I, he {filed suit yesterday through atjtorney J. J. Brandlin.
Selection of Market
|Site Awaits Survey C. J. Otten,
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Department of
He said his staff has been in Indianapolis studying all logical
City Lodge F. & A. M,, and the Elks. He is survived by his miother, Mrs. Bertha M. Harter, Indianapolis, and two brothers, Xarl Harter, Indianapolis, and Dr. Richard 8. Harter of Philadel phia. Services will be at the Flanner & Buchanan mortuary, Saturday at 1:30 p. m. with Dr. E. B. Backus of the All-Souls Unitarian Church in charge. Burial will be in Crown Hin. *
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
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home and three persons were in-|
jured in accidents in Indignapolis|
last night. Mrs. Evelyn Benge Jones, 35, Brownsburg, was killed instantly | last night when the car in which | she was riding struck a parked] truck on Highway 34 east of Brownsburg. | Driver of the car, George Hott, 28, Brownsburg, was seriously in-| jured and Mrs. Luella Lieske, 17, also riding with him, was slightly hurt. In Indianapolis, George Anastasopoulous, of 1721 N, Meridian, St, was badly injured when the| car in which he was riding col-| lided with a car driven by Joe
top-grade butter, and a 4-cent decline in wool top futures, highlighted a generally lower trend for commodities today. On the New York Mercantile Exchange butter prices skidded 2 to 2% cents a pound with “AA” grade down to 65% cents a pound. Current prices are nearly 30 cents under tie all-time high set late last year, Wool top futures fell back 20 to 40 points under increased hedge selling against inventory positions following reports that some worsted mills face a cur tailment unless a quick pick-up develops in consumer demand for garments.
Thompson, 26, of 815 Paca St., at| Meridian and 16th Sts. Charles Abbott, 44, of Calumet City, IlL.,| driver of the car in which Mr.| Anastasopoulous was riding and| Mr. Thompson were not hurt. Miss Ocella Shelton, 28, of 815 Paca Bt, riding in the other car, was injured. Miss Mary Rose Koron, 23, of 945 E. Maryland 8t., and Joseph Showalter, 28, of Fairland, were badly injured last night when the car in which they were riding collided with another car driven by Glenn L. Brown, 1503 Spencer
| {dent of the American Motion Pie-
Mayor Al Feeney is fn Chica today to sign his name to the $35 ected; million bond issue of Citizens Gas & Coke Utility. The bonds are being signed in that city because there is special equipment available with which the Mayor can sign 100 of the bonds at one time. The bonds are issued in denominations of $1000.
POPE RECEIVES JOHNSTON
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Sept. (UP)—Eric Johnston, presi-
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| “TOKYO, Sept. 30 (UP)-<Jap. ahese eh registration forms were ng mimeographed today on the backs of old death notices and new marriage report forms, on the back of used divorce applications becaule of the paper shortage. -
On the Inside
Feeney,
ture Producers Association, was received in private audience toda by Pope Pius. ‘
Bayt authorized to appeal recent budget cut.Page 8
” » r The Midnight Earl . .,. Earl's Pearls . , + tollow the Broadway beat with Earl Wilson Page 5
Gov. Gates to open The Times fishing rodeo on Oct. 9. Page 9 » Male.
» ¥ : . { 1948 Housing picture . Rew ‘many homes do we need? ar a pores Page 13
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MF. Truman's at 9 o'clock. [Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, 89" Top U. r lols stolen by Russia ; ! Ti exclusive Sekrtessnecirnicrtandensancinsane. age 14
Mr. Inside gets sketched and does a little sketching Eo of his own . . . read Ed Sovola's column along with ®
Ruark and Othman . . . Page 17... Also a picture story of Old Vincennes. Lk) : .
” Geared for emergency « + « Civilian defense near ready . .'. an editorial feature...........oeussa
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The crash occured at Emerson and Southeastern Ave.
Two Held Here As Army Deserters
The arrest of two men as Army deserters was announced today 10x ihe Indianapolis pffice of the
P5000 of Mr: Lewis Funeral services will be held (Continued on Page 9—Col. 1) Saturday, relatives said.
IU's Nobel Prize Winner Quits Red Science Academy
Dr. Muller Brands Purge as Disgrace; Accuses Russ of Aping Nazis’ Superman Line
He reiterated that no site has been selected and that his men are not as yet prepared to say which site may be the most logical location. Additional study is needed, he said.
For Women—
@® A new, chatty feature for The Times Woman's
r » " ” - rn BR 2 Dr. H. J. Muller, Indiana University’s 1946 Nobel prize winner Section, starting Satur- Arthur Barnett, R4, WAS Ar- (us : = ! in genetics, has resigned from the Academy of Sciences of the! day, will be CAPITAL {rested yesterday by FBI agents Civic Theater Affairs Committee pl . 86440 n's te wt Soviet Union in protest against purges of scientists by Soviet of-| CAPERS, by Elise Mor- |as he walked down Indiana Ave,| activities... Page 20... other Women's news. . ficials, The Times learned today. row, He had been missing from : !
The famous Hoosier geneticist told The Times he canceled his corresponding membership in a letter to the Academy in which he branded the purge as “disgrace-| of Academy members were dis-| i | torting the principles of genetics No self-respecting scientist| cor political purposes. The new! and more especially no geneticist dogma in genetics, he charged, is| if be still retains his freedom of 1e54ing toward Nazi super-race! choice can consent to have his|{yaories. . i name appear on your list” Dr. Tne IU professor referred to| Muller Ne He 2a elected oir, D. Lysenko, the plant breeder Mr, Muller asserted that a clique) (Continued on Page 3—Col. )
Ft. Knox, Ky., since May 3. He is/It's 2 ahead, 3 to go for Cleveland . . . Page . 22 . e
{in Marion County jail, waiting to i Page : lve turnea ounty J lla Paid other news in BPOIIE. cv vivsnsnanindsnnrisnnt ¢ BE & ; {thorities. - : {| Elmo Edward Myers was ar{rested in Connersville today on a charge of desertion. He had been missing from the U. 8, Army
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Amusements 26|Crossword .. 14/Mrs. Manners 16 Bridge ..... 20|Editorials .. 18 Movies ..... 26 Othman 1
NEW POSTMASTER—George V. Ress (left), former assistant | postmaster, was sworn in this morning as acting postmaster. He | | succeeds Adolph Seidensticker, Indianapolis postmaster for 15 years,” whose retirement becomes effective at midnight donigh .
since May 1, 1946. Connersville Business ... 14!Forum ..... 18/F. C, police and FBI agents appre-|M. Childs... 18|Hollywood.. 26/Radio .....s today in his|Ciassified ‘27-30 Inside Indpls. 17/Mrs. Roos'v'lt ; there. [Comics shoes 31!Dr. Jordan. . 21'Ruark
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