Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 October 1948 — Page 2

Two policemen remained pos- - ‘pitalized today after the spectacu"lar collision of Indianapolis Police | Emergency Car 5 with a etowded E. Michigan $t, bus at Alabama ‘and Washington Sts. during rush “hour yesterday. The ‘police car “was racing to an accident at ~ Alabama and Market Sts, Seventeen other persons were trasted for injuries and retumed

home. hospitalized are Patrolman Herschel Robinson, 20, of ‘604 E. 13th St., driver of the emergency wagon and Patrolman Clinton * Rosebrock, 36, of 724 E. 52d Bt. They are in fay, condition in ‘General Hospita The ran car swung out of “the police station driveway

"north on Alabama 8t., en route to

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‘Bus Driver Arrested At Washington St. the easthus was crossing Alabama e bus driver, Maurice E, Bennett,

1928 N. Oxford Ave. said he did

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of failure to give an emergency

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“ware treated for minor injuries:

overloaded public vehicle. The emergency Car was en

‘—away in which one woman was Lillian

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Kester car as Mr. Collier made a ‘south turn onto Alabama St. Trafic Snarled : er, the. two ateidents snarled downtown traffic for Wore than an hour, were lined ui asc oh One bus passe Anoskey, » Who was sitting by an open window. on the .bus, said. today that the police emergency was vid using its siren. However,: Sgt. Otto Burke, in 88 of the vehicle said five red

full a as Ei swung onto o Bou lice Chief Edward a in his office at the d the siren as

said the almost ney car was e rear of the ! in. He said pa“trol cars will be used for emer- . Jeney. fua until it is determined

_emargency. vehicle scan be repaired. There is no col Hsin y8suranee on the police ve-

Bus Also Damaged The bus also was badly damaged with the front windshield -and entrance door buckled. Bennett, driver of the bus, was treated at Methodist Hospital for injuries and returned home. Two other policemen, George Rusler, 1865 E. Riverside Dr. and Sgt. Otto Burk, 55, of 2555: E. Riverside Dr, and Frank H: Fisse, 1421 N. Park Ave, Indian- - Star reporter, who - was! - on the emergency car, also

bus passengers who were treated for injuries included: Edward Uter, 65, 840 N, Shetman Dr.; Bernard Gilson, 45, 116. N Noble St.; Elmer Van Horn, 58, 3319 E. New York St; W. P. Miller, 73, of -413 Highland Ave; e Garvey, 25, 320 N. Parker Ave; William Starkey, 438 N.

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U.S. Traitor to Die For GI Cruelty -

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 6 (UP)— Tomoya (The Meatball) Kawakita, California-born Nisei accused of brutally mistreating American prisoners of war while serving ‘the enemy as fterpruter in a “Japanese prison camp, was under death sentence today for treason. Federal’ Judge William C. Mathes yesterday ‘sentenced the 26-year-old defendant to die in California’s lethal gas chamber at San Quentin. Date of execution was not set, pending outcome f an appeal filed immediately by ‘defense attorney Morris Lavine. : a. “No American traitor has ever been executed by order of a civil court, legal attaches here said: Penalty for treason ranges from five years’ imprisonment | to death.

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IDENT VICTIM The olice emergency car was | , en Tg) ALS accident at Mh pol ree Sts. in which |More cautigus bandling of in. Miss Lillian Eggers, 1531 Blaine Ave., was. injured yesterday when it collided with an overcrowded indianapolis Railways bus just one “block away, at Alabama and Washington Sts.

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Feeney Urges | Vigilance in Fire Control

Stresses Need _ For Inspections

Every home and business establishment in the nation is a poten-| tial tinder box unless periodic in-| spections are made, and correc: tive measures taken. This is the-unidnimous opinion of the country’s leading authori. ties ‘on : ire prevention. This is Fire Prevention Week. Aroused by the tragic death by| fire Monday night of an elderly north side man, Mayor Al Feenty, today urged Indianapolis citizens to full co-operation with fire department officials in their cam-| paign to prevent loss of life and, property by fire. “The horrible death of an elder-, ly man trapped in a burning] home,” Mayor Feeney said, “em-| phasizes in a_tragic manner the| necessity for constant emphasis "lof fire prevention. J Pays High Dividends | “One little change in wiring. |

flammables and prompt removal of refuse, which means better housekeeping in-homes, stores and factories, will pay splendid divi‘gends by preventing fires.

f it’s. ud Firth orem “fre. X > Meanwhile, Fire Chief Rosess 5 McKinney, announced the Fire Department's co-operative program with’ various civie groups for year-round fire prevention

study. ment Cost High Discussing Chief McKinney stated that even in small fires where firemen are able to Oe the flames to one room the owners is two Se tate in rie] amount of money which would have been required to refurnish|

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wv SiBy using simple Precavitionary § imethods,” Chief McKinney said, “many fires could be eliminated.” William H. Meckling, chairman of the Indianapolis Safety Council Fire Prevention Week Committee, organizer of a fire prevention program among school | children, said one of the most | serious phases of the local fire| problem is the dwelling fire. A Family Business | ~ “Fire prevention stimulated by {the school child is a family busi[ness,” Mr. Meckling declared. The best estimate is that the total annual loss of life from fire

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116,000, and of this number, Mr. Meckling pointed out, 7500 are fer and children, the majority of whom die in their homes asf

Léad Pipe Cinch Fails Woman—It

SE ——————— dwelling fires, fire authorities deSTRANGE ITEMS are often|oare are careless smoking, defound in a woman's purse, but aisective chimneys and flues, care-six-irich piece of lead pipe Was On|jouq ge of matches by adults and the list today. |children, needless accumulations Alarmed over: the recent Wave,r “pypbish, defective -electrical(’ of purse grabbings, Mrs. Ira Bain, '|equipment, and use of combusti36, of 5651 Winthrop Ave. armed |p, gry cleaning fluids inside the herself with a length of pipe, ... : when she went. to pay a social call near her home last night. The pipe was in her purse. In the 800 block of E. bgtn. Bt pare eal she was attacked by a youth, who grabbed or ih book and fled before she = AS Tu C Sizes get the lead pipe. Next: time she goes out unescorted, Mrs. told police, she'll carry a ln | BALTIMORE, Oct. 6 (UP)—At pipe, but in Jer apd. {least seven and possibly eight men {were missing and feared dead toPOLICE said her attacker Was |day after the sinking of the tugdescribed as being about 18, five {boat Arundel in Chesapeake Bay feet 10 inches tall, 140 pounds, | {during a storm. uSnay Hate and was wearing *, ive men were rescued when n jacke tug capsized yesterday. But Slortly before Mrs. Bain was ne. were P inable to say how attacked, police said, a youth many others had been aboard the answering the same description, vessel, since it was carrying tried to grab the purse of Rose . oa) passengers in addition to mary Sapp, 16, of 5132 Roslyn regular crew. ve. Miss Sapp's screams: scared oft 2 BS Count Suars vid dearth the attacker, police said. theory that some of the missing might have been washed ashore in life preservers. A ———————————————————— '|Ohio Man: Confesses To Murder of Girl, 15 SPRINGFIELD, O., Oct. 6 (UP) ~<A 26-year-old Columbus man |signed a confession today to the murder of. Mary Ann Page, 15, whose ravished body was found [two days ago in a country school- | yard, sheriff's officers disclosed. No charge was immediately (filed against the man, identified as Dwight D. Tudor, Sheriff's officials said Tudor admitted the Sunday night slay‘ing and said he “was afraid” because he thought the girl was {going to kill him. Believes Only ‘an Act of God" Can Prevent War MILWAUKEE, ~Wis.," Oct. 8] (UP)~Dr. Harold C. Urey, Nobel prize. winning physicist who helped develop the Atom bomb, believes “only an act of God” can prevent another war. Dr. Urey told doctors attending medical

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are drifting closer and closer to war,” He said. "“Oaly an act of God can stop us.”

12,000 Army: Civilians {In Reich Face Pay Cut-

. FRANKFURT, Oct. 6 (UP) Some’- 12,000 American civilians : working for the United States > Army in Germany today faced an pros pay cut of about $10 million by Jan. 1, 1948. The slash was decreed in an executive order from President Truman eliminating the present 25 per. cent overseas differential.

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