Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 December 1948 — Page 8

On Two Trips

Times Receives

Nuisance Plea

City Council will meet at 7:30 p.m, today fo compare notes on its field study of smoke control in Pittsburgh and St. Louis: a A Council President Christian J. Emhardt said thé meeting will be opeti. However, he urged the pub-| lic not to atténd because he feels the Council can “dispose of the| ——————preliminaries: more efficiently if; not confronted by a large crowd.” Meanwhile, a group- of ems ployees in the Century - building, | 36 8. Pennsylvania 8t., sent a ; petition to The Times, urging a “positive, aggressive program ol correct the intolerable smdke sit uation here.” ‘Stung Our Throats’ | Signed by 48 permons ‘the peti-| tion stated: i “On the morning. of Friday; Dec. 3, the choking, blinding fumes of acrid smoke burned and stung our throats and nasal pas-| sages beyond endurance. “We vigorously protest the neg-| ligence on the part of public offi-]

exist. “We demand that permanent

14 Left Homeless in Blaze Here

under Greenlee, Inephew of Mrs.

Collier,

clals in high places which allows Fi Loui R h ing- St. 1 h | iremen Louis Roth, 1805 N. Harding St. {left}. -and Donald aware St. such .a deplorable condition to] p,,, 1342 W, I8th St. fight a fire whith destroyed a large mul tiple-dwelling house at 1902 N. lllinois St. yesterday. The blaze ‘corrective action, fully adequate,| left 14 persons homeless, The owner, Edward Trout, 57, was over-

be pressed forward to completion! come by smoke and fumes. His dog suffocated.

“without a delay.” rr

-. Sideration and to ‘Increase the

frame residence at 3213 N, Capi-| WASHINGTON, Dec.

that started in the basement early today.

damage. but a peculiarly spiteful and in-

A dining room and second floor|Guttmacher reports a scientific

1 rims i um min Spy of Suitor's Revenge

meer mace ancws of ne CQ Flame Lasts 76 Years

tol Ave. was damaged by a fire story of octuplét babies, alleged! J eS birth, and Tan

to have been born to a Mrs. Tim-ioff 20 or 30 copies which he Roy Mock, owner and occupant, |0thy Bradlee in Ohio in. 1872, mailed to the did not estimate the amount of (turns out to be not only a hoax eastern newspapers. Then he put back the item he + The K&M Restaurant, 456 E./genious one. The story of Ttsihad lifted out and destroyed the Washington St, was damaged expose is reviewed In the new is- type of his own fake story, so slightly by fire last night when a/sue of the Journal of Heredity, that when the regular: edition | refrigeration plant motor became|published here, by Dr. Alah F.'was distributed locally ‘nobody - overheated. Guttmacher of “Baltimore. Dr./was any the wiser. printing bearing of a residence at 727 Camp St./investigation of the case, made! [the hoax yarn seems to hav was destroyed by fire of unknown/more than 30 years ago. {done what origin. Elizabéth Perry is owner| Before her marriage Mrs. Brad- wanted; -at- any rate, (he wid week @go. He iden

swain in

lee was a Miss Eunice Mowery. story hasn't died yet.

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Youth fri Robbing Aunt With 2 Aids

Police Question Trio, 3 Others in Probe

grocery Keeper, and his two com= |panions today had confessed to the brutal slugging-robbery of the, “ 52-year-old widow, ; Officers were questioning the | trio, one of whom was a juvenile, |i {and three other juvenile acces{sories in connection with other|§ irecent sluggings and robberies. } Held on, vagrancy charges $10,000 bond were Arb|¥ 22. of —53T Cole 8t., Weak; Josephi§ 20, of 4930 Melrose St. {and 137 N. Delaware St, and a {16-year-old youth. -ljuveniles were turned over to the! [Juvenite Ald Division. x Police sald the trio confessed | {they beat the widowed eed | keeper and took $470 hidden in|g {her home. | ‘When they arrested Collier 3 in his hotel room at 137 N. Del-| police said they found | |the pistol with which Mrs. Weak {was struck. .It was hidden in an lice box and was caked with dried {blood, officers said. Collier admitted. beating Mrs. | Weak, police said. He told officers he spent $150 of the loot yesterday on his 15-year-old wife

and four-month-old child.

Became Frightened He said they decided to rob

A —————————— Two Homes, Cafe Octuple Birth Story (She was courted by a young Mrs. Weak after Greenlee told ¢ {printer, but rejected him. TO them she kept a large sum of Damaged by Fire roved fo Be Hoax lst even he slipped into the shod money in the home. The first oY of iv By Science Servi {of the local newspaper one night, { a 0-story y So vice o_The lifted out a short item, inserted Collier said he gave Greenlee

{$46 of the loot but Greenlee be{came frightened and returned the |money yesterday. Also sharing in ithe Joot were the 16-year-old companion “and three juveniles who

supplied information.

Police got their first lead on Collier when a neighborhood who “saw him leaving the porch after the robbery. gave a

| detailed description.

Then Mrs. Weak'’s son, William, | e told officers he found a man try-| g to break into the house a tified Gollie

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