Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 November 1948 — Page 1
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59th YEAR—NUMBER 204
VEMBER 1, 1048
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
REVIVING—Five-year-old Bonnie Counts is reviving today at General Hospital after being overcome by sulphur dioxide gas from a leaking refrigerator which filled her home in 440 S. Audubon Road. The gas took the life of her mother, Mrs. Edward F, Counts. Neighbors said police delayed seven hours in answering an emergency call
to the residénce.
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gas in the home.
model refriger
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SCENE OF TRAGEDY—This is the riorth half of the double house in 440 S. Mrs. Oder’s Kin
Audubon Road where an East Side family was overcome by gas escaping from a Police broke through a window to carry out the stricken family.
leaking refrigerator.
ator with a leaky compressor pumped sulphur dioxide gas through the Edward F. Counts home early ‘Sunday. Tightly closed windows sealed the poisonous
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Removal of Demonstration ‘Voting, Machine Stirs Row
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Police Deny {Negligence In Death hy Gas
Department Accused Of 7-Hour Delay
Police denied negligence in the gas suffocation of a 26-year-old East Side houswife yesterday. A seven-hour delay by- police in responding to an emergency call by neighbors was blamed for the death of the young mother and the critical condition of her husband and daughter, expected to survive. Rouls’ Cemment Police Chief Edward D. Rouls said in defense of his department: “My only answer to the neighber's charges that we were not prompt in answering his call to police headquarters for help is that should he have not received prompt attention on the call he stated he made at 2:40 a. ™. he should certainly have called again.” The tragedy occurred. when sulphur dioxide fumes, escaping from the leaky motor of an old-model reffigerator, filled the home of Mr. and Mrs.. Edward F. Counts, 440 S. Audubon Rd. Eight more persons were overcome by gas in two other dwellings yesterday. Two were hospitalized, but none was reported to be in serious condition. When police arrived at the Counts’ home abottt’ 9:30 a. m. yesterday, they found the mother,
is in critical condition in General Hospital. : Saved by Draft Unconscious in another bed was the young couple's daughter, Bonnie, 5, who also is In eritic4l condition at the hospital.
ward Jr., was affected onl
lapsed, was destroyed by police. They said they were forced to
tense suffering. Dr. Roy B. Storms, county coroner, said in his office today he understood that neighbors had
Miriam, dead in bed. The body of
her 29-year-old war ‘veteran hus-| band was sprawled near her. He|
Their two-month-old b , Ed-| slight-| B 1y by the poisonous fumes, ap- today indicated the GOP might ® parently because his crib was near {a closed but drafty window. : Found gasping on the floor, § | Susie, the family dog, who had | barked a warning, until she col-!
|area. .
shoot the dog because of her in-;,oang farmers will take time to Barkley, his running mate,
|in Indiana, bad called police between 2:30. 8nd 3 weather.
US Swing to GOP Seen With Half the Voters Failind to Go to Polls
Republicans Likely to Capture House
But Control of Senate Remains in Doubt (Editorial, Page 14) By LYLE C. WILSON; United Press Correspondent Polls and political surveys agreed almost unanimously today that for the first time in 20 years the voters will elect |a Republican President of the United States. Voting booths will begin to open with tomorrow’s sunrise. From 47 million to 50 million votes are expected to be cast, but nearly half the nation’s potential voters will stay
Election Weather | ™
The Republican Party seems assured of maintaining
its control of the House of Representatives. with a reduced majority
Chiang Admits Red Conquest Of Manchur
uria Communists Chop 5 Armies Into Pieces
U. S. Considers Quitting Navy Base NANKING, Nov. 1 (UP)— Chinese Communists consolidated their conquest of Manchuria today and threatened all North China positions of
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-
shek’s crumbling Nationalist armies. Evacuation of the United States Naval base at Tsingtao and of all Americans in North China was being considered. Chiang's government was so shaken there were reports he
Continued Republican control] of the Senate is in doubt. The, Democrats have a good chance| to tie it up in the Senate, 48-48, | or to gain a majority of one. The present standing: Republicans: 51. Democrats: 45. All 4 to Broadcast need it. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, ReThe Weather Bureau said the|publican candidate for President, loutlook for Election Day was afd Gov. Earl Warren, for Vice partly cloudy in. the north and|President, will be on the air at rainy in the southern part of the 8 p. m. (Indianapolis Time) over
state including the Indianapolis/all major networks. | President Truman, Democratic
Alben W. will be
Rain May Bring Farmers to Polls
By ROBERT BLOEM
The weather in Indiana toimorrow will be “Republican” and a final look at election prospects
Because rainy weather usually candidate, and Sen.
vote, and because farmers, are/on the air at 9:30 p. m.
politicians refer to|
weather as
‘a. m. to. report .that the Counts|ormally would tempt the farm-
were in some kind of difficulty. ‘(agg to Atay, horge and werk. - Despite. foreboding weather
‘What Is Needed?’ "What is needed to cause police prospects, ‘However, leaders of to’make an investigation?” he de- both major parties continued to
manded. “When a complaint like feel the vote would be heavier
should answer it at once.” ians forecast a turnout of nearly He said he would investigate! 1.7 million voters. Democrats bethe situation thoroughly. {lieve the total may hit close to The neighbors who said they(2 million, reported the trouble to police Farm Vote ‘Hitch’ without responsé were Mr. and| the other half of the tan, frame called “Republican” farm vote. double in which the Counts lived. Despite the best efforts of the ma-
ious effects from the gas poisoning because he was sleeping near a drafty window. Here he is beiig given a bottle by a nurse, Jan-
§ | of an Air-Force plane near here
| quarters of a mile from the
Miriam Counts,
was suffocated | the nation will be closed Nov. 2,| by the gas. Police found her [election day, but will operate as
Tells of Beatings
Mrs. Jeannette Oder's brother charged today from the wilness stand that he was not permitted story of
Chief Rouls said, “I regret very jor parties’ to appraise their {much the accidéntal death of Mrs. chances by polls, the farmers of {Counts and the serious illness of |the state have kept their counsel. |the family but our records dis-| Truth was that with the open-
—— {ing of the polls less than 24 [ (Continued on Page 2—Col.
4) hours away, nobody really had | ——r csi iidhisy
any valid assurance of how the MULDROW, Okla, Nov. 1
farmers will vote. Added to this (UP)—Trooper Harry Davis of
dilemma was the prospect the Taft-Hartley law and the bonus | the Oklahoma highway patrol reported today that at least 12
referendum. would bring out a disproportionately heavy labor and veteran vote, both to the disadvantage of the GOP. " Both. Republicans and Dempersons were killed in the crash ocrats maintained a confident
this is received, I believe police! this year than in 1944. Republic-
Mrs. Leacle‘Finley. They occupy hour approached was that so-|
admonitions ‘to be sure to vote rather than partisan appeals for { support. ?
ight be forced to leave the country. ; Chiang himself was in Nanking. He held a meeting of top government officials, admitted to them that Manchuria was lost to “international communism,” but claimed the situation was “not hopeless.” In Manchuria, five U, S.-trained Nationalist armies were cut to pieces, according to official Nationalist sources here, as the Communists took industrial Mukden, capital of the area which the Japanese built into the greatest heavy production center in Asia. Victorious Communist forces were driving southward from
{usually regarded as Republican | The last minute statements by Mukden upon Yingkow and Hulupresidential candidates and their Republican running mates, as scheduled for|the Nationalists already were A bright, sunny day|tonight, have by custom become seeking to flee in a sort of Chi-
tao, Yellow Sea ports from which
nese Dunkerque operation. But most of the Nationalist troops and equipment—much of it
| Regardless of the nature of to[night's remarks, this campaign lwill be recorded as one of the angriest of our recent history. There are also to be elected tomorrow 432 members of the| | House, 32 United States Senators and 32 governors, Mr. Truman is back home in|
down from his special train there| |yesterday and described himgelf| |as a country boy back home after a terrific campaign. He will remain in” Independence until it is all over. | Dewey Cocksure Gov. Dewey is at his Pawling, N. Y., farm. He comes to New| York City this afternoon to sweat| it out in Republican headquarters at the Roosevelt Hotel. { Mr. Warren and Mr. Barkley are at their California and Kentucky homes. ; | Short of war or some domestic | catastrophe today, nothing much could happen now to change the outcome of this campaign and
American-made—in the two ports were expected to be lost. Between the advancing Communists and the twin prizes of Pelping and Tientsin, its port on the gulf of Chihli, were an estimated 200,000 to 300,000 Nationalist troops under Gen. Fu Tso-yi, regarded ‘as the most able of Na-
But the biggest hitch as zero Independence, Mo. He stepped tionalist field commanders.
But the outlook was gloomy, in view of Communist destruction of the Nationalist armies in Manchuria. At Tsingtao, it was up to Adm. Oscar - C. Badger to declde whether to evacuate the ‘American naval base in China. There are about 6000 U. S. Marines and more than 1000 Navy and other personnel, including some dependents, there. The port is surrounded by Communist forces. Adm. Badger had available plenty of shipping if evacuation should be decided upon. Task Force 38—the main force of the U. 8S. Pacific fleet—was in the Harbor and could be used if neces-
| during a thunderstorm. Officer Davis said four bodies were found one mile from the crash scene and the others were scattered over a wide area. He said the plane was either | a transport or a- bomber. Its | destination and takeoff points, were unknown. ! Davis said the plane’s wings and motors were found three-
fuselage.
Exchanges to Close Nation Votes
| By United Press Banks and leading security and commodity exchanges throughout]
usual on Nov. 3. Livestock yards throughout the country, however, will be open as usual tomorrow since deliveries) are made of hogs and cattle daily| {and must be moved. ; Canadian markets and the] London Stock Exchange will be| open as usual, Nov. 2.
On Inside
“front” with predictions of vic- ts is as cocksure as tory for tomorrow. Franklin D. Roosevelt ever.was. Both parties will take to-the put Mr. Truman is confident. too air waves tonight—but With ge made the eampaign a fightin Masi ane Slitestaimio ratherishow which astonished his aE an political haranguing—in aiporters, won him Some new Jas Sninute effort to sooth the friends and jolted his Republican §rs. [opponents more than somewhat. Democrats Broadcast Pulse feelers agreed that Mr. The national Democratic cam- Truman was picking up strength paign will wind. up from 11:30ias the campaign ended, but ap-to-11:45 p. m. (Indianapolis Time) parently not enough to overcome when President Truman speaks!Gov. Dewey's lead. The governor from Independence, Mo. and looks wike a winner by a rather vice presidential nominee Alben modest popular vote margin but Barkley from his home in Ken- with electoral votes to spare, Mr. tucky. State Democrats will Truman's gaing in the wind-up broadcast over a hookup of days of the campaign came largenearly all Indiana stations be- ly from disillusioned independents tween 11 p. mr. and midnight. and other followers of Henry A. The “Dewey - Warren Band-| Wallace. wagon” show will be broadcast! Mr. Wallace will run third to over National and Columbia net- Mr. Truman and Gov. Dewey in works between 8 and 9 p. m., fea-|popular votes buf his” standing turing an array of radio and with American citizens has been Hollywood talent. The GOP state skidding: for some weeks. As the
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Creighton Declared to Need Dewey Landslide to Win
By DAN KIDNEY
After Hobart Creighton's big home-town torchlight parade in|
Warsaw Saturday night, one-of the floats was headed for home with a huge papier-mache hen lying prone and loeking like a
sry. . At Pelping, dhe U. S. Consulats sent circulars to the approximately 500 Americans in that area suggesting they ‘consider the desirability of evacuation at this time while normal transportation facilities are available.” The circulars did not order evacuation, but warned that hostilities soon may spread to north China.
WU. S. to Rush Arms Within Next 2 Weeks
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 (UP)— The first “big” shipment of American military supplies for Chiang Kai-shek’s faltering forces will be rushed to China within the next two weeks, according to. reliable informants. These sources said the cargo is {being handled by the Army {Ordnance Department, - presum= javiy indicating that guns, ammuntion and military vehicles are in|volved. | The shipment originally was intended for dispatch to the Orient next month, but then reported to have been speeded up because Chiang was said to have told worried leaders that the civil war will be decided in the next three months.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
A Republican official today away from its location at Sears|events leading up to the murder denied that the large number of Roebuck on Friday, Oct. 22. ° of her ex-husband because of the| requests for instruction on row Mr. Dunn took violent ECep-rprr ranE attorneys asked| to. “scratch” ballots was re- tion to a story on the episode] rg Oger, 46-year-old Indiansponsible for snatching a demon-/ In The Sunday Times column, 454)is divorcee, is on trial for her stration voting machine away, Our Fair City.” He said theljife in Criminal Court 1 for the from the League of Women Story, which had been checked fatal shooting of ‘her former husVoters ‘10 days ago. {with League of Women Voters hand, Harvey Samuel Broglin, 35, The reason, Paul Dunn, GOP Sources, was “a lie.”
lon Feb. 4. member of the county electon
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|Aged couple beaten, robbed |gead duck. by intruder here...Page 2| = It may have been symbolic. . : | For it looks as though the White Hat will smother the big] Week-end accidents Kill |ipicken farmer at the polls to- Tt to ihe state iD seven in Indiana...Page 8 morrow. Mr. Creighton, Repub- Merous Visits to tae state, tae 1 li seize all of Galilee (lican candidate ‘for Governor,| PeWeY trend has been downward. raed s alo whose chicken ranch outside of] He was probably the least popuand cross Lebanon bor-
. {lar of all the Republican presiden[Warsaw is world-famous; already tial possibilities, so far as Hoosier der... cima Page 9'has lost the newspaper?polls to| ‘this Democratic opponent, former Republicans were concerned. They {Gov. Henry F. Schricker, the man ORY votéd for him on the first in the White Hat. |
Treater Tricked
Judge Joseph M. Howard, | Municipal Court 3, is watch~ ' ing the larceny arrests on the court-docket closely—he'd like to find the person who stole his market basket full of groceries Saturday. . The Judge. was doing some shopping ta prepare for Halloween trick or treaters Saturday. He set down his satchel full of purchases in a drugstore at Market and Illinois St. to buy some candy. When he looked around, it
was gone,
a Me an kg Her brother, Windsor Weaver, a board, said, was that “Demo- tha e reason he gave € took the witness stand this morn- Opher Inside Feafures | cratic literature was being dis- . a, (ing when the trial resumed after | tributed.” . ¢ (Continued on Page ol. 2) a ood recess. He described Amusements. 8: Obituaries +++15| Even the most optimistic Creigh= x Hk apy a ar les Mrs. Arthur Medlicott, presi- - g ~— —— | several beatings ‘he said Mrs. Beauty .....17 F.C.Othman 13 ton supporters have frankly ad-/I{ went to Gov. Karl Warren in. dent of. the Indianapolis league! Oder received at the hands of Mr. Ernest Blau..17 Pattern ......17 mitted that it will take a land-'gfeaq : | said Democratic platforms -were! Where fo Vote— | Broglin during their married life. Business ..:. 6/Radio ....... 6 slide for Gov. Thomas E. Dewey! The “rock-ribbed” Republicans N available, all right, but so were] & Judge William Bain sus-/Comics .....2} Ruark ......13/in the GOP presidential race to'jn Indiana now feel that the Republican platforms, es of (tained a number of objections by Crossword | .f15 Society .....16|/land Mr. Creighton in the GOvV- must vote for a national ticket ’ {league literature and on ey |the state to questions asked by Editorials ...14 Sports ....10-11|ernor's chair. ' |headed by what an observer has CRI TICA L— Edward F. Chamber of ‘Cominerce/ election! {Mrs. Oder’s defense counsel in Forum ......14|Teen Prob. ..16/ There is no indication that the called “two New Deal Governors.” Counts remains: in critical con- |literature. : : | (Continued on Poe 3—Col. 1) [Hollywood .. 8 Washington .14 landslide will occur. For, while
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