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[scrires —nowarpl] 59th YEAR—NUMBER 214
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1948
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Armistice Day at the Crossroads of America . . . Taps for Lt. Jones.
City Marks 30th Armistice Day
Colorful Parade Winds| Through Mile Square | Blaring bugles,
drums and the cadence of march-| ing feet today sighaled the city's!
Deal Involving Millions Looms for Jack Benny Show
NBC Seeks to Keep Comedian From Selling
To CBS and Transferr
ing His Program
HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 11 (UR)—Radio network rivalry for top name performers took on multimillion dollar proportions toda
selling it to CBS.
Trade reports indicated that the Columbia Broadcasting System 1942 and became a pilot instead.
deep rolling with NBC trying to buy Jack Benny's radio show to keep him from
30th observance of Armistice has been interested in a $4 million deal that would switch Mr.
Day.
{Benny's show from NBC, but re-|
At 10:30 a. m. the first of four ports were that NBC apparently{négotiations were under way for units moved away from the start- has the upper hand in negotia- the stock. He did not reveal the ing point at Pennsylvania and St.|tions. Mr. Benny's show has been negotiators or the possible pur-
Clair Sts. The parade formation moved south on Pennsylvania 8t. to Washington St.; west on Washington St. to Illinois 8t.; north on Illinois St. to Market St.; east on Market St. to the Circle; north on| the Circle to N. Meridian St., and] north to St, Clair St. where it was disbanded. Spectators along the line of march were given some unscheduled entertainment in front of the Telephone building in N. Meridian St. Employees leaning out of upper floor windows, waiting for the parade to pass, amused. themselves by tossing coins into the crowds below. Boys and girls joined in a mad scramble for the money, and police restored order just a scant] few seconds before the approach | of the first contingent. |
I's Same Thief, | Same Car, but, O
t uf Times State Service ! BLOOMINGTON, Nov. 11—If| you steal a car once, justice may| be tempered with mercy. But if] you steal the same car twice, the law becomes impatient. | Donald Richardson, 18-year-old] Monroe County construction worker, began a one to 10 year term yesterday in the Indiana State Reformatory for vehicle theft. He stole the same car twice. Several months ago he took the automobile belonging to James Gillaspy, Ellettsville. It was used as a getaway car in a hold-up of the Paragon bank.
\ ” ” RICHARDSON was placed on probation by Federal Court in Indianapolis for vehicle theft. Yesterday his parole was revoked after he entered a guilty plea to a new charge of vehicle theft. He admitted stealing Mr. Gillaspy’s car ... again.
on NBC for 17 years. CBS recently bought the Amos ’n’ Andy radio show and switched it from NBC. Attorney Lloyd Wright, representing stockholders of Amusement Enterprises, which produces the Benny show, denied reports that NBC had made a deal. Mr. Wright -admitted that
{chase price. NBC President Niles Trammell, reported engineering the move, was in town, Willlam 8. Paley, {CBS board chairman, may also come here, it was understood. Amusements Enterprise recently completed its first film, “Lucky | Stiff,” and has other show interests as well as television plans.
Cold Spell to Stay Until Saturday
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
6a m.. 34 10a m.. 47 7a. m.. 38 11 a. m... 50 8a m... 383 12 (Noon) 53 9am... 4 1p. m.. 53
The cold front which moved in from the northwest several days ago is expected to remain here tonight and tomorrow, Weather Bureau said today.
Does Jeffersonville Want Gambling?
State Police Study | Results of Poll
| Results of a State Police poll to {find out whether citizens of Jef-
the tersonville actually want the wide
Temperatures will stay in theOPen gambling they've got will be
50's until Saturday, will rise slightly.
The slight covering of snow| which fell over most of Indianaitendent of state police,
early yesterday.
elted , quick when”, 7 Tapped
Meeting Called On Weight Laws
Businessmen and city officials will meet tomorrow for a discussion of policy governing the enforcement of weights and measures laws in Indianapolis. The meeting was called after a series of cases charging merchants with selling merchandise short in weight were thrown out of municipal courts. Meanwhile, Leo Martin, city weights and measures superintendent, expressed dissatisfaction with recent court actions. If the trend continues, he said, it will make the weights and measures department useless. Yesterday, Judge Alex M. Clark
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2 Harassed Newsmen Await Report on Royal Birth
Only Court Correspondents Cover Event; Three Doctors to Assist in Delivery
LONDON, Nov. 11 (UP)—Two of the most harassed newsmen ©f Several hundred residents, in the world stood by today for an urgent summons to Buckingham!
Palace to report the birth of a baby to Princess Elizabeth. They had been standing by all the week, afraid t6 go to their|Statements that the outcome of suburban homes lest the summons come in the middle of the night. | British transport all but ceases then, and it would be hard for State police action since gambling
them to get to the palace in a hurry. The reporters are the court correspondents of the two "British news agencies. They are the only newsmen permitted, under palace custom, to cover court events. They will be summoned at the same time as Sir William Gilliatt,/ royal obstetrician, and the assistant he chose yesterday, Mr. John Peel, British specialists are called Mr, and never Dr. Mr. Gilliatt and Mr. Peel will deliver the baby in the white-walled hospital room on the second floor of Buckingham Palace. Also attending the Princess will be Sister Helen Rowe, a middle-aged reg-i
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istered midwife, nurses, and Sir John Weir, the King's physician. The Duke- of Edinburgh will wait nearby, perhaps in Elizabeth’s bedroom, and will be the first person informed when the baby is born. The Duke will tell the King and Queen, and they in turn will inform Viscount Lascelles, the King's private secretary, who will call the Home Secretary, James Chuter Ede. He will be waiting in the home office, and will pin notice of the birth on the door. ‘That will serve to tell the world,
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when teyjdsterminea at State Police head-
quarters this afternoon. Col. Robert Rossow,
superinproposed the po!’ ~ “ter Jeffersonville city inte ae ‘there like gambling. He has requested |Jeffersonville and Clark County officials to be present as he opens the ballots. The poll became a campaign issue when Gov.-elect Henry Schricker criticized the state police head for the project. Both pro and con factions will be represented at Stout Field today. Circuit Court Judge James |Botorff, who for years has cru|saded against gambling in the (county, will be present. Asked for ‘Clean-up’ Until last year the judge confined ‘his crusading to the county, {while gambling was “wide open” {in Jeffersonville. At that time, |however, he asked state police to |“clean up” Jeffersonville. He said |he had become convinced that the |wide open gambling,was contrary {to the wishes of the majority of the residents. City officials have privately contended that residents were “not Tally opposed” to gambling. This cry went up when State Police went over the heads of city law enforcement officials to raid five large gambling establishments in Jeffersonville on Jan. 2. Col. Rossow instituted the pell to determine the opinion of the {majority of the citizens. He sent
= = ” : = ” . |questionnaires to a cross-section Co-operative livestock selling helps farmer, Farm Bureau told ..
The colonel has pointed out, (however, both in the poll and in
[the poll will have no effect on,
|is contrary to Indiana law.
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Homage Paid To War Dead In U. S. Today
But Flag Stays |
Folded at Brownsburg!
Today over Indianapolis and the nation flags will unfurl on the 30th anniversary of the end of “the war to end all wars,” in tribute to the honored dead of that war—and the one that followed it. But in a home in Brownsburg a bright new flag will rémain fold-| ed, just as it was two days ago when it was taken from the! { bronze coffin of an overseas hero, |
| Lt. Jones was buried in Green-| |lawn Cemetery, a mile from the| | ome of his parents, Mr. and! Mrs. Orbray Jones, Tuesday. He was “killed in the line of duty” over France in February,
To this family, Armistice Day is not a day for parades and a minute of silence. It's a day of sorrow and remembering. Twenty-six years ago when George was born, Indianapolis still felt safe in a world that had been made free by the blood of heroes. George grew up, started in the first grade and became a Boy Scout.
Tip Top Student His family was proud when he became a First Class Scout in Troop No. 1, the first troop organized in the city. It was led then, as now, by the Rev. U. 8. Clutton, pastor of Tuxedo Park Baptist Church, the minister who officiated at the funeral Tuesday. Even in 1940, when George graduated from Technical High School, the future still looked bright. He was an outstanding student, a constant member of the honor roll. He held a record of perfect attendance during his four years in high school ‘and graduated among the first 10 in his class. Like many another boy graduating that year, George had |plans. His ambition was to be an |advertising photographic layout man. He entered the Air Corps in
From then on George became a figure in far away places to his family. Letters postmarks of many Air Corps training stations, first from Fwt. Jones, then from 24 Lt. Jones. In 1944, when he sailed from New York port of embarkation he was a camouflage officer, commander of a squadron, bombardier and navigation instructor. Good News and Bad | Then the wall of wartime censorship sprang up to separate George still home. But from letters and newsIpapers they watched him through ithe aerial assault of the West | Wall and the mopping up of Ger-| man forces in France and Ger-| many. - | uttered those words. Then one day the letter had hoped for By ne k et hey quitted her—found her not guilty pleted his 50 missions and would Harvey Samuel Broglin. be home in two months. The next news from him was the dreaded! War Department telegram which brought the news their son had
“I'm free . . . I'm free.”
A French family near Champ-| ilty.” lain, 70 miles’ from Paris, wrote 8" 0" his family giving details of the crash of his flak-riddled plane. They also tended his grave. But| like many other gold star par-‘ ents, Mr. and Mrs. Jon! their ‘boy. buried fn th had “died to,defend. ., a kA ‘Web, ? ‘Six weeks ago, they were in-[ =~ Tv Ps 2D. 5 rR formed that the body&of their BEHS Aor ngs {son was on the way home. On! Tuesday a solemn cortege trav-|
room as the verdict was read.
wanted the steps to her home, soil he ire
fired in self-defense, that
jeled from a Brownsburg funeral \home to Greenlawn Cemetery. {her on numerous occasions. A bugle sounded, a rifle] crackled and his old scout master,
It the Rev. Clutton, gave the bene-|" 2° read. Then her attorneys led) What does she plan to do in|
{the immediate future to black out|
| diction. her from the court room and she returned to the jail to pack her ! o things. OES 393 Charter She was going home after nine | months behind bars. She emMembers to Be Feted — on her new life as | Mrs. Zella Legg and Mrs. Laura Jeannette Weaver. Her maiden |Rathburn, the two living charter|name was restored when her di|members of the Auxiliary to In-|vorce from her third husband dianapolis Chapter 393, OES, will| was granted while she awaited be honored at a luncheon Tues-!trial. : day. It will be held at noon in| . But, because she was indicted the Indianapolis Lodge, 1522 W.\under the name of Jeannette Morris St. |Oder, she was Jeannette Oder in Mrs. Daisy Windisch will be in|the eyes of the law until her trial charge of arrangements. Auxil-|ended. fary president is Mrs. Lethal Immediately after leaving the Trammel. © ljail, Mrs. Oder went to St.
On the Inside r
These precision-steppers represented Pike
By JACK THOMPSON The door to life opened again for Jeannette Oder as she slowly
A Criminal Court jury of seven women and five men had ac-
Mrs. Oder stood ashen-faced as the jury filed into the Criminal|brother, Windsor Weaver, who {Court 1 yesterday afternoon, fol-|suffered a heart attack after he lowing 20 hours of deliberation. “ »| Tears streamed down her face|trial. been “killed in the line of duty.”| S018 DrEATEL CONT HEC “Not| There was a round of blurted out as she entered the applause in the crowded court hospital room. Then, she stopped.
{former husband as he went up
{feared him because he had beaten!
Friends pushed forward to congratulate pus after the verdict|NaPPY just to sit around and read
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Mrs. Oder to Start Anew After Acquittal in Slaying
Hopes to Go to Florida or Arizona;
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of murdering her former husband,
| Vincent's Hospital to see her
testified near the close of the
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GOP Senators Seek Assembly Rule Deal
By ALVY Goroon (Precision-Steppers From Pike Township School
Caucus Held On Makeup 0f Committees
Want Democrats To Fall in Line By ROBERT BLOEM A possible deal was in the
|making today to eliminate
weeks of bickering in the 1949 General Assembly over party control of the House and Senate.
Republican Senators, who will run the Senate in the face of an otherwise all” Democratic state government, met in a closed caucus at noon to discuss policy, Basically; the proposition being considered by GOP Senate leader« ship, is this: ONE: Point out to Democrats that the GOP is going to boss the Senate. Retiring Republican Lt. Gov. Rue Alexander will be Presi« dent of the Senate for three days before his Democrat successor, John Watkins, takes over, and he'll have the organization completed by that time. TWO: Propose that Democrats in the Senate be allowed to get together and to decide for themselves which Democrats’ will sit as minority members on key come mittees.
THREE: Propose that in ree turn, Republican members of the Democrat controlled House be allowed to decide for themselves which of them will serve as minority committee members. Basic idea of the proposition would be to settle the problem of organizing the two houses along
1 , 1499 ’ litical 1 ” a . Township School in the Armistice Day parade Joanne Spivey, Caroline Siemantel and Louise De Nea Joefore tha sention today. Nancy Coffey leads the unit which in- Harvey. "| Under such an arrangement,
proponents of the plan pointed out today, minorities in both houses
Declines to Start New Big 3 Talks
Attlee Prefers Use Of UN on Problems
“Read Around the World, Page 2 n. (UP)—
LONDON, Nov. Prime Minister Clement R. Attlee today rejected a suggestion in Commons that he propose a new Big Three meeting with Premier Josef Stalin and President Truman. The suggestion that Mr. Attlee approach Stalin and Mr, Truman about a meeting was made during
“Honey . . ."” Mrs. Oder
Tears welled up,in her eyes. She
Mrs. Oder had admitted on the stood silently, twisting a handwitness stand that she shot her
kerchief in her hands, “I'm so happy for you, Jean,”
; 2538 Mr. Weaver sald as tears ran Brookside Pkwy., to visit her on{down his cheeks onto the pillow. |
L “Youre. galyg to stay with [Hazel (Mr. Weaver'¥ "Wwifeé) to,
But “she contended that she| night, aren't you?” Mr. Weaver| she asked, after a moment of silence. |
“Yes,” Mrs: Oder replied |“I'm going home and take a bath land get cleaned up. Then, I'll be
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{the memory of the past nine imonths? :
Like a Bad Dream
{ pleased with the quick
| results and the
the question period in the House. “Generally speaking,” Mr. Att{lee said, “I think it is preferable [that international problems {should be dealt with through the {United Nations if they cannot be {settled through normal diplomatic
{channels.”
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would be strategically located in various committees. Can't Complain Democrats could not’ complain they had been deprived:of a strong voice in key Senate come mittees. Republicans, in turn, could not say they were steamrollered out of a chance to havé their say in the powerful H Ways and Means Committee, for example. Indications as the GOP Senators met were that state Republican Chairman Clark Springer’'s proposal to go along on all Democratic platform measures might not fare too well,
lican ranks already were pointing out that there would be little point to going along on some Democratic platform measures “just-to ram their platform dqwn their throats.” Resent Suggestion Instead, these leaders believe, the Senate GOP majority should adopt a policy of holding a pole icy caucus on each major issue between the parties as it comes up, and décid> 0 CTE -Mr. Springer made it clear his suggestion was just that and that he did not speak for the Senators, but several members were quick to resent the suggese tion as “premature.” Should the Senators adopt the proposed organization suggestion today and relay it to Democratic Gov. Schricker and Lt.-Gov. Wate
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sat vy her meoners vices. i Indiana's Electric Chair Idle Nearly Three Years
Five Slayers Scheduled for Execution
Last Spring Still Live on Borrowed Time MICHIGAN CITY, Nov. 11 (UP)—Indiana’s electric chair has
{may take a trip to Florida or] [Phoenix, Ariz. But I haven't |really made any immediate plans. | “Besides, if I should go away {I wouldn't know what to do with {my new dog.” A matron at the {county jail gave her a cocker! |spaniel which she is to get in a {couple of days. ! | Mrs. Oder continued. {thought when they first took me|
it or live it down. But now that|
gathered dust for more than two and one-half years and five men «1/who had dates with it last spring still are living on borrowed time.
Originally, the five convicted slayers were to have paid thelr
between last Feb. 1 and May 14.
to jail I'd never be able to forget debts to society in the lethal chamber of the Indiana state prison
| , ted three springs ago "for it's all over, it seems more like a| Four of them have had two trocu bad dream than anything else.” stays of execution each and the garroting a wealthy widow.
Lobaugh got his first stay .by
Certain Senators in the Repub. -
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Allies move, to contest threat to Berlin airlift. ... . Page 2
. = s o : ” ” J Tojo to hear court decide his fate today ..........Page 3
= ” 2 Realtors to fight extension of rent control. veceses Page Big Father of four killed in first hunting accident of
The next execution date on the action of the governor to Apr. 2. well-worn calendar in Warden Then the Fi. Wayie Jade who Ralph Howard's office is Nov. Sen She Bi a Saugh a 29, the Monday after Thanksgiv- S¢conc¢ stay to May <4, Since
Charities Share | oh ithen, the supreme court has twice In Spatz Estate fu lextended the date, first to Nov. «vo... Page 3
Even now, there's no assurance jg and then to next Jan. 15. [the electric chair will take on| Robert Austin Watts, Indian FT. WAYNE, Nov. 11 (UP)— that date its first life since Apr. apolis, was to have paid with his |Eighteen charities and public 2, 1946. {life May 10 for the sex slaying |service institutions in this area; Robert O. Brown and Frank of an Indianapolis woman. He
Sesser serra taste |
BEREOI 5 sve io sv sine nn suns rnnntansannisiciss .Page 4 today found themselves the re- Badgely, convicted of killing two won a stay to Nov. 9 and another
Amuse.
Allison's “Mr. Health” keeps 8000 employees in top physical shape : . .‘a picture story ... . s : . : ..Page 2] 0 salesman to-president of state supreme court. The race for survival ... last of three articles i : ...Page 23 eft a total of $393.973.70 to such from Mar. 19 to June 19 this Ripple-Shortridge game tops city grid card 2 v Other sports ee Other Features on Inside Pages
++28,29|Fashions ... Z8 F.C. Othman 21|Sports a 32:34 the final report on the probate of nately admitted-and denied three/through the supreme court, Bridge ..... 27|Forum ..... 22 |Radio ... -.. 10/Summersby . 18 [the will of Mr. Spatz, who died Ft. Wayne sex slayings was to Childs ..... 22|Homemaking 28 Comics: .... 39/Inside Indpls. 21 |Ruark ..... 21| Weather Map 9| Crossword ‘'. 14 Mrs. Manners 16 [Side Glances 22 Earl Wilson. 23|the remainder of the estate, total-{victim of the chair since Frank|on the Editorials .. 22/Movies
jcipients of more than a third of Hammond policemen, are slated to next Feb. 1, both through de{a million dollars from the estate for electrocution Nov. 29. But aicrees of the supreme court. {of the late John Spatz. petition asking for a third stay Kallis May Be First Mr. Spatz, who rose from a of execution is on file with the] Thomas Kallis, the last to have - !died in the original calendar of They already had won a delay executions 14st spring, may turm jout to be the first of the five to organizations as the YMCA, year and again to Nov. 29, both pay the penalty. : Page 32 YWCA, the Lutheran Hospital/times by order of the state's’ Kallis, convicted of a Lake . 2 s&s {Association, the Methodist Hos- highest court. County slaying, originally was to ceetessescesiniisnscoa.... Pages 33, 34 pital, the Red Cross, The Salva-| Lobaugh Case Still Pending |have been electrocuted May 14. ' 2 =» ® = ® [tion Army, the Irene Byron Sana-| Ralph Lobaugh has lived on He got a stay to Sept. 3 by virtue 4 {torium and others. borrowed time the longest. Thelof a Lake County criminal court | The bequests were revealed in'Kokomo factory hand who alter-|decree, and another to Dec. 7
{the Perfection Biscuit Co. here, |
If Brown and Badgely win ane : have died last Feb. 1. other reprieve, Kallis may. lead 3 He would have been the firstioff the depopulation of death row i anniversary of Pearl 4
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