Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 November 1948 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

forsonville Pol Leaves State Police Still in the Middle

+ “Pro-Gambling Mayor and Crusading Judge ' Say Results Make No Difference in Policies gs 4 By DONNA MIKELS “The time has come,” the Colonel said, “to talk of ~~ many things, ’ : © Of state police as middle yen, and aces over kings.”

0f Ex-Rides

Listens to Court

Rulings Over Radio TOKYO, Nov. 12 (UP)—Em-

the end of a table covered with postcard questionnaires sat Col[the radio account of the sen-

TOKYO,

Hirohito Sad [Strict Guard Will Forestall Suicide Attempts by Japs

12 (UP)—Can|any of them could have concealed|tom of self-destruction, when

closely for that. Keep Constant Watch:

From now until the death sen-

his body—as Goering did—| under scrutiny, by the intensely even the tiniest vial of poison. painful but very simple method of

. any of the Japanese war leaders|in t entencin pb trim ei | ment by suicide as did Germany's

Hermann Goering? . The 25 men who heard their

They have been watched too{biting off one’s own tongue or at

"Teast biting so deeply into it that one bleeds to death. . The blood is swallowed as it

“‘{sentences in the International

War Crimes Tribunal have been searched repeatedly for poison

implements against themselves.

Their grim little eight-by-eightithem of successful suicide, and

them are executed, these men will

Yet one possibility remains to

nces assessed against seven of flows, and if the wound inflicted 3s by the teeth is deep enough, never be out of the sight of alert/bleeding can be halted only b and for any hidden weapons or|guards for even a moment, not they might wusejeven in sleep.

surgery. Surgeons Stand By From this moment until the

thwart a suicide attempt of this nature by the former Japanese premier or any other of his convicted fellows, ; Few men could hope to conceal even for a moment the intense pain such tongue-biting would impose. .Yet it cannot be presumed that Tojo and the others, trained to extreme stoicism as the leaders of a stoic race accustomed for centuries to inflict —and to receive—physical tor-

FRIDAY, NOV. 12. 1048

‘Greek Authorities Seek - Ki A * 3 h drapes Job Youle is government troops and police’

were alleged to have kidnaped Francis L. McShane, 43, of New=

from a jeep shortly after sunset as he rode with five Greeks from

, |peror Hirohito appeared rome jeells in Sugatio prison have been f ; 3 what shocked” when he heard subjected closest scrutiny. [cerned about it. The scene was State Police Headquarters at Stout Field. At ar oe Ee

their guards are seriously con-

There is an old Japanese cus-

hangman's noose is adjusted about Hideki Tojo’s neck, one or more surgeons always will be near, prepared at any moment to

polis.

Navplion, Tripolis road some and one half miles east of Tri- .

ture, might not be capable even|the Village of Aigiorgitika on the Their guards will take no chances.

Robert Rossow, superintendent of State Police. He was literally /tencing of former Premier Koki - in the same spot he's been figuratively many months—in the middle Hirota to death and Marquis ‘between Jeffersonville’s pro-| — Koichi Kido, his onetime closest gambling mayor, Samuel Shan-| ‘adviser, to life imprisonment, ac-/ non, and its crusading anti-gam- [cording to jmperial household ing Circuit Court judge, James | officials. Bottorff. | The officials said the Emperor | “The State Police head has been (and Empress Nagako both lis“in the middle” of the two Clark!

{tened to the radio after Hirohito| County factions wince last Jan-| {had audienced 16 visiting Ameriuary when his men went in over,

{can educators. the head of Mayor Shannon's Imperial household department local police to raid five plush

lofficials said Hirohito listed with gambling establishments at the! 'a pencil the sentences as car-| request of Judge Bottorff. ried by the radio. They said ie The two men were invited to be isigned and looked “somewha present at headquarters yesterday | sa” as Tribunal President Sir as Col. Rossow tabulated the fos | William Webb sentericed to either sults of his poll to determine]

{death or life imprisonment the whether Jefférsonville residents | former leading Japanese statesare in favor of gambling, as the

| men who had come to the palace mayor says, or opposed as Judge | frequently and discussed state Bottorff contends. i affairs with him, i Explains Policy {

| ‘Mrs. Tojo Unmoved

Before the returns were counted | the colonel again emphasized the] | By Death Decree | | TOKYO, Nov. 12(UP)—A small

same policy he had underlined in| a statement accompanying the! {Japanese woman wearing a nearly | thread-bare kimono listened dry-|

votes. The sults of the poll, he| said, @wi'=s pel vern future |eyed and unmoving today as her (husband, Hideko Tojo, was sen-

police action. | [tenced to death by hanging for his

| |

With that the three men and a half dozen reporters delved into] the 496 cards which were re-| war crimes. turned from the 682 mailed out | “Tojo died spiritually dt the time of Japanese defeat,” Mrs. | Katsuko Tojo said after the war-

to a cross-section of Jeftersony {lord hall been led away to await’

ville residents. The results were 320 opposed| | execution. She said she would not make any appeal for clemency

to gambling and 174 for open| gambling (with many appending | the notation that it should be] for him because “now it is only, ! a matter of death physically for {him.”

legalized) . Two voters did not chéck either| “I am sure,” she said, “that he {desired the death penalty. What-

alternative but merely used cards| ever he desired is what we mem-

to express their opinion of the poll bers of his family want One sald: “I'm too busy mind-| « His |Ders of his ant, ing my own business to know 1 New JAP PhEwiee strong “After all, a person only dies there is gambling.” The other| Very “Jccidental cigar once. ‘had scrawled: “This is a helluva contrast to his traditional Jap- | “Today's judgment is a natural question for state police to bel anese kimono, Shigeru Yoshida, {consequence to us when we conasking.” president of Japan's Demo- [sider there are so many bereaved The latter echoed the campaign | catic.Liberal Party, poses for {families as result of the war.” opinions of Gov.-elect Schricker,| a photo raph after his appoint | Then, still without fears, Mrs. who criticized the staie police head y gra} rh |Tojo left the tribunal, escorted for conducting a poll on whether| ment. as prime minister, |by her daughter. citizens favored violation of the jority opposed gambling. He said law. ED I poAfter the ballots were counted )ice to enforce the laws if local es I ers they were diyided into three police do not do so. Ir i . classifications:-businessmen, civic| “There have been other reasons ; . . an leaders and citizens at large. [beside the ‘opinion of the public Traffic Victim Of the 72 business votes’ re- why the laws haven't been en: turned 37 were for and 35 were forced,” the judge said in aside, | against. Civic leaders polled 25 “and one of them is this” He An Indianapolis man died in for and 54 against. The public at made a symbolic “pay off” ges- Major Memorial Hospital, Shelbylarge voted 231 against gambling ture with thumb and forefinger, |Ville, last night from injuries and 112 in favor of leaving Jet-| Mayor Shannon, however, ap- Suffered in a crash 11 miles fersonville ‘wide open.” peared dublous about the poll [northwest of Shelbyville on State What the poll would mean to He sald he is unconvinced that Road 29 Tuesday. the Ohio River town with arepu- Jeffersonville residents are Charles J. Sanders, 42, of 2035 tation for roulette and horse- against gambling and said he Boyd Ave, was ‘driving alone playing was doubtful, |tavors letting the gamblers alone When his car went out of control, Judge Bottorff said it con- “as long as they don't get out of rolled over, righted itself and firmed his belief that the ma-!line.” then struck a tree. He suffered — a broken neck and internal in-

P ittsburgh F amily Killed hy Sanders had operated his

* lown business, the Sanders Oil B Fumes in Baseme ¥ pi {Burner Service, for 14 years with y n ome offices in pis ome. A lifetime . . . (resident of Indianapolis, he was Police Find Gas Heater Disconnected From

{a member of the Morris Street Flue; Brother of Wife Discovers Bodies |

[Methodist Church, He was also a member of PITTSBURGH, Nov. 12 (UP)—A family of five, including | Logan Lodge, F&AM, No. 575; three children, was found dead last night of a carbon monoxide the Scottish Rite: Murat Shrine, poisoning in the basement of a home the father was building in and the Philozenian Lodge, IOOF. suburban Ingomar. In addition to his wife, Beulah The dead were Willlam Chrizman, 33, a welder for the Pitts- D. he is survived by two daugh-| burgh Coal Washing Co., Ambridge; his wife, Frances, 28, and ters, Misses Jo and Jean their three ‘children, Florita, 7;|~ rr een Sanders; ue mother, Mrs. Nina William 6, and Joann, 3. i i anders; two sisters, Mrs. Rut Two pets—a dog and a our Daughter to Be Quizzed Phillips and Mrs. Alma Martin, also were found dead in tne In Patterson Estate all of Indianapolis; two brothers,

| Clifford D. ' y . temporary home in the founda-| WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (UP) ang iE ers, Temps, Ma. Jon 2% Yat Was pore | —Lawyers for the executors of apolis. : Mrs. Eleanor Patterson's $16 Services will be held Monday Chrizman had moved his family at 3'p. m, in Moore Mortuaries into the basement apartment to million estate will question the peace. Chapel. Entombment will save, ret hile’ he bulit,’the late publisher's daughter on Nov. follow in the Washington Park

rest of the' house. ; : The bodies were discovered oq bi her .attempts to break the Mausoleum.

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day night. mother was of “unsound mind”| A coal dealer, who had been The coroner said they had been and that she signed the docu- charged by the department with dead for at least 12 hours. ment under duress. |shorting a customer in a ship- - iment of coal but whose case was later thrown out of court, contended he had lost trade because of his arrest. Need For Lawyer i | The dealer's attorney Sherwood { Blue, told L. J. Keach, Safety Board president, he felt the weights and measures department superinténdent needed a lawyer with whom to check evidence before proceeding with prosecution. As a result of the meeting, a, policy of the department's checking on coal shipments was established. Inspectors will check coal | loads while they are en route to the customer. If weights do not correspond to the bills of sale, the load will be then returned to its home scale for a second check. If the weight is still faulty, the inspectors will proceed with charges. | Rollin Meek, acting director of | the State Division of Weights and Measures, attended the ses-

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