Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 November 1948 — Page 3

MONDAY, NOV. 22, 1945

Find $1 Million Police Study 38th St. Cast Off Plane Traffic Hazards After Are Hurt in Crash

Officer Reports 763 Arrests Made on Street

Since Jan. 1; Labels Section a ‘Race Track’

| Traffic hazards on E. 38th St. were examined by police toda: Supply After War |after a three-car crash in which 12 persons narrowly Sap. J

Engine Valves '2 Report Army Dumped

CHICAGO, Nov. 22 (UP)— death last night. State police reported today that they have found more than $1/tion in General Hospital.

million worth of high quality] Two other teen-agers remained Army aircraft engine valves dis-|in fair condition and eight others

carded in a suburban dumping | were released after first aid. Nine ground. Some estimates figure'of the accident ' victims were their value as high as $6 million.'Shortridge High School students,

Former officials of the Dodge-|bound for a drive-in after a party 16, of 6333 N. Park Ave. and Miss Chicago aircraft plant said the for the cast of the forthcoming

valves, made of tungsten carbide Shortridge Vaudeville. steel, were dumped after the war.!

gines for B-29 bombers. St. between The former plant officials said Emerson Aves. since Jan. 1.

the valves were dumped on Army this total 618 of the violations orders shortly before the Chrys-|occurred in the eastern section of ler Corp. turned the plant back 38th St. he said, from Fall Creek

‘east to Emerson Ave. A “Race Track”

to the government. Officials said the Army gave as its reason for dumping the! valves the fact ‘that the cost of disassembling and scrapping them would be prohibitive.

+ Explosion Feared 38th St.

- head on

Army officers also were quoted motorists they were entering the|

as saying that the valves could city limits. : not be melted down because their! a said Wotohlate = io a : [the small city limits sign hollow shafts were filled with a'4y000 and speed into the city as sodium cooling agent, which high as 70 miles an hour. He might explode in an open hearth said he also would ask the city furnace. |department to erect large “30 Mile But one airline said it current- Speed Limit” signs at Keystone ly is paying $75 apiece for valves Ave. and Road 67 to slow down of the same type. The Army and’ raffic. Navy also have in use planes of Capt. Jacobs said he also would the type which could. use the ask the State Highway Commisvalves, aviation experts said. sion to paint a center line on the State police said the valves un- blacktop road from Keystone Ave. earthed at the dump still were to Arlington Ave. That section wrapped in their original cartons|is NOW unmarked. bearing ‘“e name of the Easton Last night's accident occurred Manufacturing Co., Cleveland, O.,/ When a car driven by Robert Dewhich made them and shipped Graff. 17, of 2341 Central Ave. them to the Dodge plant here. {driving west on 38th St. near Estimated at 80,000 {Rural St., started to pass another - a, oY, |car and crashed head-on with a George Beemsterboer, owner of vehicle driven by Thomas F. the land where the valves were|Grady, 19, of 3245 Ruckle St., apdumped, estimated the number|proaching from the opposite didiscarded at 80,000. rection.

Mr. Beemsterboer said they, The DeGraff car turned over other persons died in traffic acci-

were buried beneath three feet of and skidded into another car,

pound they contained. He said was following the Grady car. most of them now probably are! In the DB&Graff car were Mr. corroded beyond use. {Perry and six Shortridge High “They were supposed to be School students. They had been buried and forgotten,” he said, attending a party celebrating se“but somebody seems to have lection as members of the Shortdug them up.” | ridge Vaudeville cast, at the home

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One of the accident victims, Dwaine Perry, 4730 N. Capitol Ave, |a Purdue University extension. student, remained in a serious condi-

Traffic Capt. Audry Jacobs cited

The plant - -| ts on 35th plant made 18 cylinder en a total of 763 trafic aitesus 0 and ment were DeGraff; Miss Janet,

of Black, 17, of 2503 N. New Jersey

Labeling the section a “race track,” Capt. Jacobs asked City Mr. Grady, driver of the second [Traffic Engineer Lewis Johnson|car and a passenger in his car,| ‘to erect a large sign at the over- Frank Marsella, informing | Broadway.

of Carol Beane, 3602 Carrollton Ave. They were en route to meet! Miss Beane and other friends at al North Side drive in. * Two passengers, John W. Judy,

Ruth Beack, 17, of 3424 Guilford Ave, were in fair condition in St. Vincent's. :

Released after first aid treat-|

St.; Miss Judy Reynolds, 18, of 1649 N. Alabama St.; William Crooks, 16, of 3319 Park Ave,

and Ronald Smith, 16, of 1324 W. 30th St. Traffic Tied Up | Also treated and released were!

17, of 5501! Both are Shortridge students. but were not members of the party. | ; Miss Jean McGannon, 17, of {359 8. Spencer Ave. a passenger| {in the Scheidt car, was also |Biven first aid. Mr. Scheidt was not injured. | The accident tied up traffic en! iheavily traveled 38th St. until {wreckers could remove the cars. | Car Demolished | The DeGraff car was demol-| (ished. One of the injured, Mr.| rooks, crawled out of the wreck-| age through a hole which had| once been the trunk of the car. There were no fatal accidents! in the city Sunday. However, one Indianapolis man, Ferdinand! Strens, 90, of 1030 N. Leland! Ave., died in Methodist Hospital| of injuries received when he was {struck by a car driven by Donald [Breene, Cumberland, at 11th St. {and Emerson Ave. last Thursday. Elsewhere in the state, three!

dents. Hiram Jacobs, 65, Chicago, |

'day near Economy,

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Petillo Returned

- - { | To Jail Here Layman Ave., has been appointed

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Air Force Makes Posthumous Award

For Insurance Co. Robert L. Lindenmeyer, 331 N.

group supervisor of Indiana dis-

$1500 Bond Canceled By Judge Bain

Kelly Petillo, former 500-Mile

again today.

The stormy petrel

E. Southern Ave.

|County. William Wilson, 50, Rich- 5100 W. Washington St.

mond, was killed instantly in the! crash, |

| 2 Other Victims

| P. 8. Better, 81, Elkhart, was| struck by a car driven by Howard | Martin yesterday afternoon. At| Kendallville, Mrs. Bertha Schmidt, 768, of the Lutheran Home there, was struck by a car driven by Donald Gongwer, 21, of Ft.| Wayne. | Two motorcyclists were injured, |

yesterday. x { Paul Haskett, 26, of 1313 Nor-| dyke St., riding as a passenger on a motorcycle driven by Carl Nungesser, 32, o’ 200 8. Oriental was injured :. ‘riously driven by We 2959 S. Meridian §.. into the front of a mu.

Serious Condition

dition in General Hospital. Mr. Nungesser, who received a broken leg. was in fair condition. Funeral services for Mr. Strens| will be at 10 a. m. tomorrow in the Dorsey Funeral Home. Burial will be in Crown Hill.

er, Indianapolis; a niece, Myrtle Thompson, Indianapolis, and another nephew, William Ginz, Germany.

years Mr. Strens was superintendent of carpenters for the Big Four Railroad 40 years before his retirement 20 years ago. He was a member of the Evangelical and| Reformed Church.

chief of the U. S. Employment Service, today predicted continued high employment through most of! next year, > Mr. Goodwin told the United! Press his staff of experts “sol

No date has been set for the Mr. Haskett was in serious con- rive

include a nephew, Harry Spr Of Birthday Cigars

Mrs. es

An Indianapolis resident 65 birthday after all, it appeared to-|

Te“ 2tolP Well Into. 1949.in sis. country. heard of his re-|

tillo’s release after he was arrested July 4 in Corunna, Mich. He was returned here and charged with assault and battery with intent to kill in connection

| She signed the bond for pl EX

Sets New Bond In court Petillo explained his)

racing was his only means of livelihood and asked to remain; free until time for the trial. Judge Bain refused, however,

and set a new bond at $5000. | car, More trouble came up for Pe-'plow uncovered the body of Mrs. vy, 21, of tillo later when T. Ernest Maholm Maxine Laughlin, 30, Jetmore, withdrew as his lawyer. Petillo Kas, in an eight-foot snowdrift told Bain he had no money to yesterday. She had been sought by Herbert Schafer, 704 E. New Dire a lawyer and the judge ap- by several hundred volunteers, St. |pointed public defenders John O. highway patrolmen and national guardsmen since Thursday.

Lewis and William Zilson.

Admirers’ Efforts Assure Sibelius

NEW YORK, Nov. Finnish composer Jan Sibelius will get Havana cigars for his 83d|

day. | Several months ago the eminent musician told a visitor the onl things he wanted for his birthd were Havana cigars, ohtain i Finland. * “They are my food. he -said wistfulz Ses TREY a The National Arts Foundation!

cigars from American music lovers. They mailed the cigars/ more than a week ago so that) they would arrive by Dec. 8, the]

trict by the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co.,

i i ol ” Race driver, was back in jail [n Cts Tower

of racing meyer entered {was back behind bars aftér his the $1500 bond was canceled at the partment of the request of Mrs. Mary Maio, 1428 company in Criminal gctober, 1947. ‘After he was asMrs. Maio’s request to be freed signed to earth, to minimize the danger of driven by Robert M. Scheidt, 24,|/died in Henry County Hospitai|from the bond was granted by Chicago group an- explosion of the sodium com-/of 3220 N. Bancroft St. which early today. He was the second|Jud8e Bain. She said she fre-joffice as a supervisor. {victim of a two-car collision Fri-| duently could not locate Petillo at formerly an agent of Connecticut General Wayne his residence at a trailer court at General Life Insurance Co. K the decision wi brought out.during .hearings be-| fore the House Subcommittee on 56 years ago on a tenant farm Class of the Questionable Trade Practices.

Dies in Blizzard

with the knife attack on Mrs. Naomi Schafner, Lebanon, in his| room in the Roosevelt Hotel, June! 29.

[that day with an aunt, Mrs. Libbie Sinclair, They were on their way to Dentmore, about 27 miles north of {here, when the snowstorm, with winds raging to 60 miles an hour, caught them on the open highway.

22 (UP)— snowbank so Mrs. Laughlin stagtied out on foot to get help. She apparently lost strength-flounder-ing through the snow and froze to death.

Yithe car on Highway 154, two Do aY\ miles south of Ft. Dodge. Search cult to crews found her aunt alive in the car 24 hours later. treated for exposure.

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Mr. and Mrs. Vern Brunner, 413 W. Market St., Crawfordsville, accompanied by their daughter, Arlene, (right) yesterday received a Purple Heart posthumously presented by the U. S. Air Force to their son, Sgt. Billy W. Brunner. The medal was presented at Stout Field by Col. James A. Ronin, Stout Field commanding officer, along with the Air Medal with an Oak Leaf Cluster and a Distinguished Unit Citation. Sgt. Brunner was killed in the Pacific Theater when the B-29 | on which he served crashed as it returned from a mission.

GM Drops Agency

Named in House Probe ; WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 (UP)— jobs in |A Washington Oldsmobile agency (has lost its dealer's franchise in jan¢ Barkley, a man who served |the wake of testimony that its/longer as majority leader than |salesmen took $500 “tips” from any other individual. t new car buyers. | General Motors Corp. advised

nowledged that a factor

[The Truman Re-Deal—No. 9 lllinois’ Lucas to Wield Power as Majority Leader in New Senate

Veteran Democrat

By EARL RICHERT, as yet discernible 2s a result of the saddle in Congress.

and influence.

emerge, of course, as Cabinet changes. But these are: still shadowy | persons whose: la p pearance’ awaits the will {of Mr. Truman. § And Mr. Tru-; {man isn't going to change his cast any more ¢ than he figures? 'he has to, | Sen. Lucas has

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Of Putting President's Program Through

y Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 22—Only one new major political star is

the voters’ decision to keep Presi

dent Truman in power and put the Democratic “old hands” back in

This is tall, suave Sen. Scott W. Lucas of Illinois, who is slated to take over as Senate majority leader—a position of power

in World War I, rising from priOther new major Agures may vate to: iow: t

As usual when a new man steps into a big job, there are many

& l'who say he isn’t big enough for

it. But White House lieutenants

majority leadership. The Senator is no orator but is able to express his thoughts clearly. Though representing the northern Democratic viewpoint on civil rights and other controversial issues, he has shown

|been in Congress as Representa-|in the past that he could stay itive and Senator since 1935 and ison friendly and workable terms well known in Democratic circles. with the southern Democrats. !His service as Democratic Senate whip provided the stepping stone has followed the Democratie to the top position on the Senate Party line. Notable exceptions His election as majority|were his opposition to President leader awaits the opening of the Roosevelt's Supreme Court pack-

As Senator, Mr. Lucas usually

new Congress but there appears ing plan and his vote to override

— to be no opposition.

Named Supervisor (qr Dealer Loses | Sales Franchise

Has Barkley As Tutor

White House

ate.

| As majority leader, Sen. Lucas

not only will be responsible for carrying the ball on the Presi-

M&K" LE5088 |the Kearney Oldsmobile Co. that gent’ program but also he will Mr. Lindenmeyer its franchise, which expired Oct. be expected to give the White He was 31, would not be renewed.

passed and what can Motors spokesman ae be the negotiator of many com-

asthe testimony Promises.

A|House advice on what can be

not. He will

The Illinois Senator was born

lin southern Illinois. As a child

Charles E. Ford, attorney for he earned some of his first money

opportunity to pe heard by

Frozen Seeking Help eral Motors.

|the firm, denounced the action as by taking his mother’s iron and He protested that|pressing pants for show * people {the company had been given no|who played the Ohio River eir-

President Truman and his staff are counting strongly on Sen. Lucas for the legislative agility that will be {required to get much of the TruIman program through the Sen-|Prostem through the

They think he will get off to a ood start in one of the toughest peapolis, a fireball politician who Washington because tutoring him from the presiding|strong civil rights plank into ithe officer's chair will be Vice Presi-

President Truman's veto of the income-tax reduction bill New ‘Liberals’ Coming The election sent several new “liberal” Democrats to tho Senate who are expected to do much to help Sen. Lucas get the Truman Upper House.

One of these is 37-year-old Mayor Hubert Humphrey of Min-

led the successful fight to get a

Democratic Party platform at

elect Estes Kefauver of Tennes~ see, Paul Douglas of Illinois, Lyn« don B. Johnson of Texas and Robert Kerr of Oklahoma.

Men Builders Elect

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Church today announced the election of Wendell W. Phillips as class president. . + Other new officers include Harold H. Kohlmeyer, Ray Banta, James Woods, H Faulkner

But he said Fe He worked part of his way|and Marion Gatlin, vice presi-

lnot decided what, if any, legal through law school by playing dents; John Trimble, treasurer, After Car Stalls |steps might be taken. lan

DODGE CITY, Kas, Nov." 22

one seriously, when their cycle frequent absences from the city, (UP)—Authorities today pieced crashed into a station wagon in Ying that he was racing in Cal-{together the story of how an ex-| the 700 block E. New York st /\fornia and Florida. He said , .tant mother lost her fight to

reach help when her car stalled during the blizzard that raged here last week. A highway maintenance snow

Caught in 60-Mile Wind Mrs. Laughlin came here on

to visit a doctor.

Their car stalled in a huge!

She was found just a mile from|.

She was

By Science Service DURHAM, N. C., Nov. 22—The

composer's birthday. ~ |United States may -soon be able

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TODAY co-operative post office

to declare independence again—|

this time from Turkey. |

Turkish-type tobaccos, noted!

far hasn't found anything in the officials searched through mail|for their high aroma volume, ‘are! employment picture that indi-|Sacks piled up on New York piers necessary ingredients of all qual-

cates a major break in the fore. 'ecause of the East Coast dockljty cigarettes.

|seeable future.”

workers strike. They finally lo-!

Spurred by wartime shortages,

| He 8aid there have been signs cated the cigars and reroutediplant scientists at Duke Univer-

|that employment is leveling off] {in many industries and even! |dropping sharply in some. iLL iron IU Offers Students Major in Russian ! Times State Service BLOOMINGTON, Nov. 22—Students at Indiana University may {now secure a degree with a major {in Russian studies. The faculty of the Arts and Sciences College voted to include Russian studies as a major subject. The university has provided courses in Russian langauge, culture, literature and history for the last two years under Prof. Michael Ginsburg. .

them by air. The

Finnish government, in:

cigars duty free.

Typhus Vaccine Shipped to Lebanon WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 (UP) | —Typhus vaccine sufficient to {inoculate 450,000 persons is being,

sity under the leadership of Dr. Frederick R. Darkis have suc-

(honor of its most famous com-/cessfully grown high-aroma to|poser, has promised to admit the baccos in co-operation with the

agricultural experiment stations of Virginia and the two Carolinas.

The new American “Turkish”!

| {tobaccos are also low in nicotine. |

Ex-Soviet Spy Denies

{shipped to Lebanon to prevent an Evading Summons outbreak of the disease among;

refugees from the war in Pales-| tine, according to the Red

ROCHESTER, N. Y., Nov. 22

Cross.|—Elizabeth Bentley, self-con-

The Red Cross said little typhus|fessed for mer Communist spy

ihas developed so far but that the

{vaccine is needed as {cautionary measure.

a - pre-

IN INDIANAPOLIS

'courier, says she has not evaded 'a summons and willingly would {accept one in the $100,000 slander |suit brought against her by Wil-| {liam W. Remington, former Commerce Department official. i Miss Bentley met reporters be-| fore addressing 1200 persons last

BIRTHS Boys

At Home — Ernest, Edna Wilson, 2228 Parker; Oscar, Clementine Smith, 2740 Tacoma; Elisha, Grace Chatman, 404 W. Walnut.

At Methodist—Richard, Emma Vernon;

. N Norma Cobb; Carl, Virnia Luca; Arthur, Marie West; Floyd, etty Schultz; Kenneth, Vers Dyer; Charles R., Helen Hay. St. Francis—Charles, Francis Ragle: Curtis, Mildred Nolan: Phillip, Mary Little; Albert, Dorothy Bailey; Omer,

it; Don,

ley. At “st. Vinecent’s—Norris, Julia Souder; i

Malcolm. Virginia Williams;

y ge, Spaulding; Marvin Sophie McAllister.

bott; Charles, Mildred: Coleman, iliside; Thomas, Mary Nalley, 1306 De.

=40

Margaret Hastings; Paul, Dagothy Dud-

McCarty: Arthur, Ruth Sipf: Clarence, Ruby Short; Thomas, Audrey Martin; Floyd, Jo Barlow; Geor

Anna jGeoEe

Ss At Home—Hansen, Dorothy Arnold, 2309! Indianapolis; James, Frances Taylor, 515 Franklin T. North, 30, 1836 N. Harding, Ab : 1909| myocarditis.

28th; Booker, Mary Seats, 1514 N. | Arsenal. At Methodist—Paul Jr. Anna Leach; Maurice, Carolyn Gohman: Elbert Jr. | Ruth Holy; Stanley, Grace McDonald; Robert, Elmore; Bernard, Wilma, Brown; Harold, Dorothy Hardesty; Rudolph, Margaret Schreiber.

Tommy, Audrey Collins; Elmer, Yvonne At General—John, Agnes Quiger; Carl, Betty Clark: Robert, BenetajAt St. Fran

Epps. cls—Earl, Rosella Brooks: Max, Katherine Berry; Ivan, Virginia Strange. At Colema arles, Virginia Elzea; Joseph, Dorothy Dowd; fe, Geotgia Warren; Raymond, Margaret Grady; John, Mary ATHY. {At . Vincent’s—Filoyd, Lucille Dugan: | Robert, Beverly Lyons: Clark, Dorothy : Foster, Mildred Boals; Roland, Maxine Hull; Paul, Iona Miller; Harold, Lucille LePeber; Harley, Cathryn Morow,

Edward, DEATHS

Adeline Longwell: Urban. Cynthia Wag- Amelia Franke, 82, at 1264 N. Holmes. the new revolutionary govern-! ner: William, Rita Babbit; Robert, Mary|

arteriosclerosis. Clara Walker, 75, at 904 E. 15th, carci-

noma. Everhart, 81, peri- | _ toni:

8. Kathleen Lambeth, 80, at 3240 College, hypertension.

at Generel,

‘night on “I Was a Russian Spy,”| in which she repeated the details lof her career brought out before {the House Un-American Activities Committee. “The matter of the law suit is (entirely in the hands of my at-| {torneys,” she said. | | re ————— |

U. S. Recognizes

New Peru Regime WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 (UP)|

~The United States last night] granted diplomatic recognition to}

ment in Peru. | The State Department said the {new regime, headed by Gen. Manuel Odria, notified this .governiment on Oct. 31 that it would

“scrupulously” observe Peru's in-

- Harvey Alfred Schad. 85 at 3715 N. Mer- 7 ss; Wiliam, Lavonia Taylor, OD WP on: Sry whclusions iternational ‘obligations.

HE WILL

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DEAR MADAM: A GIFT FROM YOU-KNOW-WHERE WILL WARM HIS HEART, GLADDEN HIS OUTLOOK AND CAUSE HIM T0 SAY TO HIMSELF “ OR AUDIBLY SOMETHING LIKE “BLESS YOU

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