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Seized With Blond On Check . Charges WASHINGTON, Nov, 5 (UP)~— An investigation into the death of Alvin (Jake) Powell, former major-league outfielder who shot and killed himself at police headquarters, was ordered todayy by Clarence Lutz, acting superintendent of police. Powell, 39, played in the outfield for the Indianapolis Indians in the American Association in 1042. In the middle of the season he was traded to 8t. Paul of the same league in a player deal involving Outfielder Gil English and Catcher Norm Schleufer. Later in the season he was drafted | by the Washington Senators and then traded to the New York Yankees. He later played for the Powell took his own life last ‘night while being questioned) about bad check charges. Questioned with Powell was Josephine Amber, 35, an attractive Deland, Fla., blond, who told police that she and the former baseball player were to have been married until she changed her mind. During the questioning Powell asked permission to speak
Pulls Gun From Pocket
Powell and Miss Amber walked into an adjoining room as detectives watched from the doorway, Suddenly Powell shouted:
“To hell with it, I'm going to| end it all.” { Before anyone could intervene he pulled a 25-caliber revolver from his pocket and shot himself | once in the chest and again in| the right temple. Detectives said that Powell was| arrested on the complaint of a local hotel, which questioned a| $25 check he had submitted. { In Deland, Fla., police said a warrant had been issued there against Powell, charging that he had .cashed at least two -bad| checks. | In Dayton, O., where Powell
police said he had been trouble” numerous times
SHOOTS SELF—Alvin (Jake) Powell. (above), former major league outfielder, shot and killed himself at the Washington, D. C., police station while he was being questioned on a bad check charge.
State Totals -
By United Press The complete unofficial vote cast for major party candidates on the Indiana state ticket: Governor—Creighton (R), 738,607; Schricker (D), 878,155. Lieutenant Governor — Alexander (R), 760,625; Watkins (D), 833,050. Secretary of State—Ferrini (R), 759,902; Fleming (D), 333/288. Auditor—Ogles (R),. 763,285; Propst (D), 827,744. Treasurer—Brown (R), 764,659; Wilcox (D), 2828516. Attorney General—Foust (R), 764,750; McManamon (D), 825,.516. Superintendent of Public Instruction — Watt (R), 762,961; Walker (D), 826,898. Supreme and Appellate Court Reporter—Norris (R), 764,885; Kelley (D), 825,855. Supreme Court Judge, Fourth District—O’Malley (R), 765,482; Jasper (D), 827,550. Appellate Court. Judge, Second District—Hamilton (R), 767,683 Martin (D), 827,550. \ Appellate Court Judge, Fourth District —Lenhington (R), 766,291; Wiltrout (D), 825,114.
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American League where he was involved in several brushes with other players on the field.
The victims were identified as ahead of the flames. e Por several seasons Powell was|Clarence, Herman and Martin Other livestock fled in panic. the “Péck’'s bad boy” of the Keller, of Kitzmiller; Robert Jack-| and jured seriously.
{son, also of Kitzmiller, {Chiatles Kifer, of Mt. Storm, W Va.
Nov. 5 often worked as a plant guard,| (UP)—Five miners, three of them! “in brothers, were asphyxiated yes-| on!terday when fire broke out in the disaster units to care for huncharges of passing bad checks,|fan house of the George Nethken dreds of families who piled into
(him: on the victory ride to the White House. Fourteen minutes after arrival, the long stream of hand-shakers was shut off. Mr. Truman shouted to the crowd: “I think we ought to quit the hand-shaking and go on with the parade.” He clasped his hands over his head in the traditional manner of the prize ring and grinning broadly said: “I'm shaking hands with all of you now.”
Roaring Brush Fires He will start a two-weeks vacation at Key West, Fla., Sun-
Destroy Buildings day. But before going he will 1.08 ANGELES, Nov. 5 (UP)— have to give some thought to his “state of the union” message to Seventeel hundred © men today be delivered to eg battled roaring brush fires that {ime after it convenes Jan, 3. have destroyed 44 homes and] He'll also have to work on forced 2200 residents to flee from budget. Tecomumendations — ex_'pected to refc e unprecedented two eanyons In. southern Califor 0 ime total. of $44 binds. nia. {And he will have to study the The flames, whipped by winds proposed North Atlantic defense which had apated somewhat dur- pact of the United States, Caning the night, destroyed 40 hbmes ada and Western European na-
ons. in the exclusive Topanga Canyon "ro, oo.
Try to Check Canyon Blaze In California
began gatherin {district just northeast of Los ong historic Re oe Angeles. in the gray morning, hours beCrews of 1200 county and city fore the President's triumphant firemen and volunteers sought to ride from union station to the control the flames before fresh white House. - winds were expected to reach a, Mp Truman and Mr. Barkley peak late today. Four thousand sat on the top of an open car as acres of watershed were burned. {ya parade began. Chairman J. ; Cabins Burned 'Howard McGrath of the Democratic National Committee sat between them. ~ Sitting on jump seats in the
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At Greenleaf Canyon Ranch, /{the buildings and eight donkeys used for donkey baseball exhibitions were destroyed. Three cab{ins at Mineral Springs Hotel resort were burned. | The tinder-dry, brush-choked To Santa a Canyon area 40 miles {southeaSt of Los Angeles was aflame over a rectangular areal {15 miles long and five miles, wide. Three hundred Marines] from the El Toro Marine Base| {were believed safe from the fire, and 200 others fought the blaze. | Winds up to 60 miles an hour, {whipped a blaze through 10,000! acres in ‘the Santa Ana Canyon, area. 40 miles southeast of Los |Angeles on the Orange-Riverside County line, |
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Use Disaster Units | . ! i Five cabins were reported destroyed there, The flames threat-' (ened the thickly-settled areas of {Silverado Canyon and Lemon | Heights. | More than 1200 Los Angeles city and county firemen, sheriff's deputies, foresters, sailors, prisoners and volunteers fought to bring the Topanga fire under control.
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jcars and droye out of the area Horses and
Two firemen were reported inDozens of other .| persons received minor burns and | cuts, sheriff's deputies said. .
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same car were Mrs. Truman and daughter, Margaret. At one point, the crowd along {Pennsylvania Ave. broke away {hurriedly as an old woman in a wheel chair was pushed to the ‘curb for a look at the President. The crowds were pressed six and seven deep from the street icurb to the iron fence surround|ing the White House grounds. Across the street from the execlutive mansion the crowds milled lover the grass of Lafayette Park {to hear the President speak from |the White House steps. : | Some 800,000 persons were be{lieved to have turned out along |the line of march to watch, the { President's return. As his car proceeded at a walking pace to the White House, it {passed under a “victory arch” of isix 100-foot fire ladders. On the . |arch was a bunting reading “Wel- of Elks, will address members |come Home, Mr. President.” of Indianapolis and other In- | The President waved his hat|-diana lodges at 8/p. m. today. land his glasses glinted in the, =
= (sunlight as he turned his head, {from side to side to the crowds. y S erve | Also in the car with the Presi- ¥ :
{dent was Mrs. Truman's mother
ELKS RULER SPEAKS — George |. Hall of Lynbrook, N. Y., grand exalted ruler of Benevolent and Protective Order
«1 Police have arrested 1400 persons
, |munist uprisings next week coin-
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1400 in Korea
SEOUL, Korea, Nov. 5% (UP =
suspected of subversive activities in a large-scale roundup in the Seoul area In the past 24 hours, it was announced today. Home Affairs Minister T. Y. Yun declared that the arrests were designed to forestall Com-
ciding with the 31st anniversary of the Russian revolution. Mr. Yun said that among the persons jailed were “several Communjist plotters and known
leftists.” Curfew Called
caution against new disturbances in the troubled south Korean Among the persons arrested were members of Kim Koo's Indeperdence Party, the People’s Party and the South Korea Labor Party.
Manual High to Give Free Sales Courses
ey eA for employees will pi Monday Ai wa] High School. : Designed to give pre-Christmas pointers in selling techniques, the classes will be held daily from 2:15 through 4:15 until Nov. 12. “The training program will be directed by Miss Helen Haynes and Mrs. Nina Perry, of the Wm, H. Block Co. and Richard E.
U. 8. Army headquarters called
Emery, distributive education consultant with the public scheols.
a curfew for American troops and|The <¢ldsses are open without
civilians tomorrow night as a pre-
{Mrs. Madge Gates Wallace. She 1 3 jas an unexpected guest. f niver Sdry |Z
In front of the Washington {Post on Pennsylvania Ave. a newspaper which had picked Gov. {Dewey over the President, Mr. : {Truman got a chuckle from a big Lodge 67th anniversary. three-|
sign which fluttered from the day celebration opening at 8 p. m.|S
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|building: {today in Antlers Hotel : “Welcome Home From the, George I. Hall of Lynbrook, Crow Eaters.” | Y., grand exalted ruler of { Back of the President's car Benevolent and Protective Order,
{were automobiles carrying mem- of Elks, will address local, state] {pers of his cabinet, includingiand Midwestern Elks after the [Secretary of Defense James For- initiation in the Flks Lodge Room jrestal who may not be around {n Antlers Hotel at 8 p. m. today. next year. A dance will be held at 9 p. m.
4 Perish in Ohio tomorrow = IH hosel Belg Boom) Farmhouse Fire .
Following a meeting of Indiana groups at 10:30 a. m. Sunday, the celebration will close with a ban-quet-at 1 p. m, Mr. Hall will speak.
STEUBENVILLE, O. Nov. 5|itiation and meeting are Dr. | (UP)—Four persons were burned Emerson J. Soland, Theodore W. {to death and a fifth seriously injured early today when fire de-
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Young, James C. Gribben, Gratten H. Downey, Larry 8. Combs, stroyed a century-old farm home Shirley W. Turner, Charles O. {at nearby Knoxville. Kidwell, M. C. Harbison, Robert | Killed in the fire were Bate Spencer, F. L. Bodenmiller, R. L. |Cooper, 84, his daughter-in-law, | Glick, Carl L. Broich, Michael {Mrs. Evelyn Cooper, 40, and Mrs. Moroney and John Lauck.
An initiation, dance and ban-'§ quet will be part of the local Elks =
{Cooper's two children, Barbara, 2, ! eof Colom. ‘and Terry, 9. | i | Grant Cooper, husband of airs, KG ts 0 Columbus Cooper and father of the two Mark Gibault Month (children, was in East Liverpool! Hospital with serious burns oh! the face, neck and hands.
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To Aid Fight on Cancer lin rehabilitating delinquent boys. | NEW YORK, Nov. 5 (UP)—An'poynded in 1921, the school has
| ultraviolet lamp the size of 2 heen financed by the Indiana | kernel of corn was announced!
{today by the Hanovia Chemical jurisaiciion and is-Jocated hear and Manufacturing Co, for diag-! eas a ——— nosing suspected stomach cancers. The tiny light is inserted into Card Party Monday {the stomach with a gastroscope, Moose Auxiliary 334, American land enables a Surgeon to deter- Legion, will hold a public card {mine whether a cancer is present. party at 8:30 p. m. Monday in the |The company said it will elimi- South Side Community Center, nate many exploratory opera- 1233 Shelby St. Mrs. RéVine Siler tions. is in charge of arrangements.
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