Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 October 1948 — Page 2

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switch -engine

cated ‘50 feet

a vacant lot

passengers There they

fn flames with. ing ‘with burnec pedo as agore and The blast occurred at 7:13 a. the screams of the injured, | " Only the fact that the sheet of flame died over an empty! stretch of ground prevented fur- Work ther damage and loss of life.

"Had the

of Apr. 18 a

one-half mile

disaster,

a student at High 8chool

~tional-Guard. Mr. and Mrs.

all of Indiana

_Bervices for.

Hill, lived at 739 He was a and Mt, Para Mrs. Clara

Indianapolis; half-brother,

Washington Harris lived

years, At o

Indianapolis.

er a

p held

Born in Je Mather, who

dianapolis 30 years.

member of

Church, Zionsville. -Mather. is. survived.by. net HL

sisters, Mrs

and

‘exploded without warning, sending a single sheet of flame across road like a blast from al glant’s blowtorch, | | (UP)-—Seventeen persons, The searing flame floated across

out, leaving behind its 23 vietims roasting in their automobiles. Not until switchmen broke the train could motorists on the opposite side reach the stricken plant's employees were due tol

- another direction or reached oll| or gasoline storage fanks, the city might have been swept by a series of blasts si

nigh oi the city limits and just

santo Chemical Co.'s plant, which was the hardest hit in

neral Crown Hill. "He was 17. Born in Weston, W. Va. moved to Indianapolis with his parents five years ago. Arsenal Technical

and was a member of the NaHe is survived by his Hateais

three sister, Mrs. Harold G. Hornor, Mrs. Crawford Hamilton and Miss Patrician Trent, and two brothers, Robert and John Trent,

William Robertson

Mr. Robertson, who was 72,

, before he became a hospital pa-, tient. Born in West Point, Ga., he lived in Indianapolis 30 years.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs, Carrie Robertson; three sisters,’ Mrs. Rubenia

Detroit, and Mrs. Lulu Patterson,’ Robertson, Chattanooga, Tenn.; a

, Ala, Charles Shields, Indianapolis.

William C. Harris

Services for Willlam C. Harris, ‘whose body was found yesterday hanging in CIO offices, 2201; W.

10:30 a. m. tomorrow in AaronReuben Funeral will be in Beth-El Cemetery. Born in Brenham, Tex.

and operated Shop near the Hotel Lincoln. He was employed at the CIO offices as a publicity man and editor. Mr, Harris was a member of Monument Masonic Lodge and Beth-El Temple. by a sister, Mrs. Harry Freeman,

Mrs. John E. Mather

+ Bervices for Mrs, ‘Mather, 1226 Pleasant St. died:

at . 2 p.m, Dorsey Funeral Home, Burial will be in Memorial Park,

Ernest White and Mrs. Marie Woods, and three fostér brothers,

Wal all of Indianapolis. | ~ Fred O'Neill © 'Bervices for Fred O'Neill, who _ dled yesterday in his home, 2501 a ol Ave., will be held at 10 m. Thursday in ime C.- Wilson Chapel 0 8.

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. THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES .

; 19 injured

A Pipeline todas + At exes City Crossing

“Victims Trapped in Cars as Blast - Turns Line of Traffic Into Inferno

ho TEXAS CITY, Tex. Oct. 19 (UP)—Texas City, still jittery over & series of explosions that killed some 400 persons in 1947, counted a dead and 19 injured today as the result of a break in a butane ine which Shveloned 14 automobiles in a sheet of flame, "Several of the injured were burned so eritically that physicians

‘for their lives,

x Siz Eyancyille Plant

up on the highway waiting for a

tron a's aim os Blast Injures 17

The high pressure pipeline, lo-

from the highway, EVANSVILLE, Ind, Oct.

and burned itself

| Refrigerator Co. plant,

|hour before the bulk of

found automobiles = eport for work.

ssengers fight-|

hands to open serit back home when they

rived at 8 a. m. Cause Undetermined

in the maintenance {experimenting unit, located in

flames gone the blast,

ilar to those tion, company officials said. nd 17, 1047, when . nitrates exploded

eighter Grand- ’ cident desurred

the blast was found.

that mone hurt seriously. west of the Mon-

the 1947 For Miss Truman

=A «former.

called off ‘a cocktail party the President's night “because it might cost President votes” of, dry citizens.

Ee Tech P pil Dies Mrs. Charles Bradshaw, who Since then, he and his mother fere was reported ‘growing . ; month by American Airlines, the After “Long “Mines hin went to ton Tall Th Weshington, come, in Que uncle, Charles wil weaker!-today: : a Seek Loh: h highest amount of _airfreight ; Services for Gene Trent, 140 W, at Gunston Hall in- ashington |cbme, in Queens. "Miss Landi was brought to mail and express for any month Df Lens ‘ens said she canceled the Seen Standing in Yard {King#lan Hospital 10 days ago {in ‘the .airline’'s history.

uor is

the 100.

litics, He was po

before his {liness,

“NAPA, Cal;

Joseph B, Trent; rough terrain of Nara

escaped gun battle Sunday night. Police sald t oF Suideg) man may ld or ad ound " {one of the shots fi n the Bal William Robertson, in which his. comp in the fof

polis.

i-American “War - veteran fous! Wi Ww v ni-a uel a. | wounded seriously and two bh yl ospital after a prolonged Nines; let A were to be held at 1 p. m. ivulle wounds 4n Jacobs Brothers West Soa Chapel. Burial will be in Crown

8 enforcement - officers

N. California St.

member of the

American Legion, Berry's Camp — 39, United Spanish War Veterans

n Baptist Church, -

Hutcherson and Gordon, both - of

KIDDIES’

a brother, Bennie

Bost Thorne, Birand a stepson,

St., will be held at Home. g Burial

Mr, in Indianapolis 30 ne time he owned the Best Tailor

He is survived

Nellie May who yin General Hos- | rier iliness, will be tomorrow in

flerson County. Mrs. was 41, lived in InShe was a Salem Christian

, ‘Mather; " ‘three! Grover Garrit, Mrs.

Elmer Kassing and

Burial O'Neill, lis

Explosion Just Misses 1000 Later Arrivals | -

were| injured today in an explosion at the maintenance and experimental testing shop of the Beeger

The blast occurred less than an|

More than 1000 persons were

Nearly 25 men were reported at| Smith... Mishawaka.

in Plant's basement, at the time of| freshman,

Other units, employing «Poison Parts ; Boy “and Dog,

2000 persons, remained in opera-|

No estimate of damage was made and no immediate cause of

Latest hoapital reports showed of the workers “were ~~:

Cancels Cocktails

RALEIGH, N. C., Oct. 19 (UP) | classmate of Mar-|the- dog died,” Nie naar | garet’ Truman said today she had | “But I didr’t think he would do!

s daughter here last never

among’ groups|

n| request of staxs-Democtutlt oft

opal’ 74 on where he-was. studying h Caro-|bE™n printer.” lia sly a a n eleriidum Bone the d where he had ch may dry u the whole state ing in the yard w e is a hot issu¢ in North Carolina played with the dog. On Probation Charge

Planes Join in Search For Armed Desperado

Oct: 19 (UP)-<lyald the Toose~end- of the dog's Harvey G. Foster, specia liane, in. 1045. and 1046. Observation planes were scouringirope in his hand.

Yolo counties today in a renewed hunt for an armed desperado who| Symphony Finalists Napa police in a running!

received for the audition here next Satur- was working under an assumed éd guilty when he was triéd Oct. 27.

-There's-rhythm in the nursery

Veterans of Two Wars Bia Permits |

sued ' 1686 building permits

merce revealed today. figure compared to 21 at more than

the

ar-|

1V) BIG FOUR—Class presidents, that is. “All are members of the Independent Party, all recently gained office in the first consolidated election to be held at Indiana University. Seated (left) Walter C. Howland, Grand Rapids, Mich., senior, and S. Chad and] sophomore; tanding (left) James P, Hogan, the| Washington, Ind., junior,-and Donald W. Shaughnessey, Ft. Wayne,

: ' GI's of '41-'45 Challenge 1918 ‘King Makers’; $33, moth five-hour parade today filled the program of the 30th national million, issued in August, slow down the behind-scenes maneuvering of World War I and 1947. dates, The parade, composed of nine] eri anr ged divisions and at least 59 large begin at 3 p. m., Indianapolis time . viewing stand on. Bayfront Park.. McDonald Tells Club officials and military color guards. , . 064 by Scott McDonald, Reside, N. J., was to head the color-|y, ." 1. uincton Republican Club {annual competition last night in elected, will be national officers daes not take With no regard to their politics. the hot fight for the national/loses his status when he becomes terday. Mr. McDonald said he would |a fifth, 32-year-old James F. dling of all delinquent children. Their action, aimed at the s0-|¢; peip gelinquent children with, of national commander for 30} “However, if a child doesn't With Pet, Then Uses Tether on Own Neck. the Lieglon-=veterans of the: Ars! ribufing to the delinquency of Someone poisoned the dog two weeks ago. Last night Gustave Tex., 56-year-old candidate of! at large.” h a rope he had used to pe the the vics nlp in. the yard. Last night’ the convention for| this. shied away from Legion over- | the know why he did it.” KINGSTON, N. Y. Oct. 19

2 ’ . Control of Le oniroil or Legion 9 Divisions, 59 Units March in 5-Hour Parade = MIAMI, Fla. Oct. 19 (UP)-—Committee meetings and a mam- permits, valued American Legion convention here. But the one-day suspension of formal convention session did not $3.6 million, issued in Septem World War II factions seeking to win the post of national com- Bank debits mander for their favored candi- m units from every state and territory in the nation, was slated “For Juvenile Court It was expected to take more sat. than five hours to pass the re-| No Place for Politics; ‘Drum Corps Champ ! Keeping the operation of JuFollowing units of high Legion .,,.;;s Court out of politics was the national champion drum and publican candidate for .Juvenile bugle corps from Post 146, River-| ort judge, in a speech before ful procession. last ni ght. d The Riverside corps won ihe He declared that the cowry |the Orange Bowl before - 40,000 Personnel, if he is |spectators. Although election of appointed on the basis of merit place until the convention's clog-! ‘I believe the qualified profesing session Thursday afternoon,|sional worker in Juvenile Court commander's post was in fulllactively engaged, in politics,” he swing as the meeting opened yes- said. Four candidates formed a coali- follow the principle of rehabilitation and withdrew in favor of tion, not punishment, in the han|Green of Omaha, Neb, a combat! I believe in calling upon all | veteran of * World War II. |the resources of the community {called * ‘kingmakers” who are said} So Master, 15, Hangs Self |to have controled the selection Ut placing them in an institu* Lad Stands in Yard Where He Romped years. turned the race into a con-|. "F iy gous test to see who would control make adjustments without. insti tutional care, the gourt'is con- { NEW YORK, Oct. 19 (UP)--Gustave Kemnah, 15, didn’t w ant World War or the second. | B the child by allowing him to re{to live without hi dog, police concluded toda ithe ¢ y allowing him to re | v 0g. pO © y. 8. Perry Brown of Beaumont, |main- at large.” he said. - | committed suicide. the “old guard,” was the other | He hanged himself from the stairway of his uncle's home with jeading candidate. American Airlines “He had been ynha received “with delight” an i Star Elissa a Landi [tion ‘from Philaceiphia. ta mor Es ing 1 yu d w ke next Jears conclave there, er Sts Cargo Mark e was a hea ¥. both New York and Chicago had seemed moody. I don't : Reporte eaker 8 tures to make those cities the! record high of nearly 3.5 Police. sald that Gustave's pac- (UP) ~ Screen Actress Elissa 1949 site. |ents were divorced six years ago.i Landi, seriously ill in a hospital

Lotion ton miles of air cargo {was carried during the last

The total 3,448373-tof miles ranks more than a million ton miles (carrying the equivalent of one ton per million miles) above September, 1947, Frank W. Bodwell, Indiana sales manager of American Airlines here, said today. The previous record ‘was in June, when 3,090,750-ton miles was handled.

_ Last night Gustave came horse En from a: “flare-up of a

e Queens Vocational yr chronic condition.”

Execution Stay

FT. WAYNE, Ind. Oct. 18 (UP) Attorneys for Ralph W.. Lobaugh tonight announced they When Wilcome and his daugh- A two-year search by the FBI, had asked the Indiana Supreme) ter, Margaret, 21, came home they for a man convicted on white Court for a stay of execution for {found Gustave's body hanging slavery charges in 1944 ended the Kokomo factory worker. from the stairway bannister be- pare yestérday with the arrest Lobaugh is scheduled to die in [tween the first and second floor. o¢ Lavern A. Cathey, 38. ithe electric chair Nov, 16 for the| I Gustave .left no note. He just rape murders of three Ft. Wayne

Lo. Feld Co. Has Fourth

The family ‘was

Neighbors saw him stand. ‘Arvest Ex-Convict Here

What a pretty day!

agent in charge of the FBI here, Y : {sald Cathey is charged With vio- paughs ron yo L2H. that Burglary in 4 Years lating the terms of a:'conditional Burglars last night broke into

release friyn Leavenworth Peni-| “my. pleaded they did not have the Jake Feld Co. 115 E. New Doreas Mackay, Ft. Wayne pi- tentiary on Oct. T, 1946. He... +, prepare proceedings. York St., for the fourth time in ifs today wis Fo among failed to make ‘proper reports to appeal by Lobaugh’s attor- four years, strument igians an- ¥ probation authorities, Mr. Foster ies asking for a new trial is on Mr, Feld said entry had been as pa in the sald. file with the State Supreme Court. fiadé through a window which do the oh of bln st spon-| Agents traced Cathey here Lobaugh confessed the three mur- had been broken, and desks and Sizes 12 to 20. the De i Sym- when a former woman companion ders in 1947, recanted his con-| filing, cabinets had been ran- es o FehEstra. “She ‘Will ‘appear was arrested by-city-police.: Heifession before-the trial, but plead- sacked. . - “Apparently nothing was miss-| ing, he said.

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TUESDAY, OCT. 19, 1048 °

|compare to + $551 million ‘the same month last year. EJ

Local residents used 3000 or 18,000 more tele.

|gas meters and |Bhones last ‘month than in Sep. {tember 1047. {| ‘The growing City also held 2035 persons rece! |as compared to 1759 the same in! month last year.

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30, (UP)—The Sneath Glass Co. yes$5 terday resumed operations that

and were halted Friday by a “wild

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HARTFORD CITY, Oct. 19

Af Strike Rocks

With (

Marsha Visits .

Troops ai brushed asid of Communi: and seized menaced pit France coal f Additional were hurried northern mi government effort to save

“destruction o

the General Labor (CGT) all security crews, Strikers e¢ curity force: crowbars at near St. E forces replied strikers were 20 police and Seize Governmen the electric nearby Car coming some strikers. ° However, miners defie union's ord normal ‘mai

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developed in percent of tl on the job. About 100 miners tried the Le Fore France. But Communist | brief strug; attempt.

haly SECRETA C. Marshall 3 minute audie XII. A Vati they discuss good of hum regard to It: Later Mr. Anzio beach] son is buried

Germany THE Com cent of the = years ago fourth in ge north Rhin of the Britis The Christ - per cent of t Béla Deno Catholic Cer the Commu splinter grou

Great Br JOHN Be secretary of has been gra request beca investigation

today. .The annc Belcher aske inquiry is fi barrassing “ outside the }

China THE Com large portiol Changchun j joined. Comn fng the Man

Japan ALLIED h the list of c mitted by 1 shida a E scheduled to ernment late Allied offic with the Jaj make-up of servative go difference, s pected to t months. Meanwhile president. of Gen. Dougla: ‘plane to pa)

VOTE INS] The Ame! class of Bi the America tee campus and demons voting mach of Jordan

Thursday.

Six of th nine Red children adoptive abused, ,phaned y ity ond ¢ home is help assy to the Co

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