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

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WEDNESDAY, DEC.22,1048

Man's Death

Shot Attempting fo seriously injured by an automo-| Flees Info Night After Assault °:

A 20-year-old East Side wait19 1ress who ran screaming to & house in the first block in Spencer

death last night of Lee Lidster, ported Mr, Ton was held up near Ave. early today touched off aj Gm = = Stewartsville, Mo. by a hitch-|police. search for an assailant Mr. Coldwell of the

“Tl be back tomorrow to take He was not identified.

Police Hunt Down cee Workers of America last | September. Last week the three-

—-police-offieers warned them of the gince its enactment in 1947.

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o Puts Holdup |PTOW Victim in Hospital; !

‘Love Triangle’ Blamed in

ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Dec. 22 (UP)

{a hiteh-hiker and struck and

Enter Another's Home rhe bandit fared worse. He was Times State Service {shot dnd killed about the time TERRE HAUTE, Dec. 22 — A|Mr. Ton was being “love triangle” was blamed today|a Cameron, Mo., hospital. by authorities for the shotgun| State highway patrolmen re-

50. farmer living five miles east of here on RR 5.

Lidster was slain when he at-

|surplus truck. { tempted to force his way into!

After reporting the incident by gpencer

ol DOES Bandit Shot Down E Side Girl | ed owes 40 Garage:

] : {hiker he had picked up in Utah.|who she said attacked her as -she Prosecutor John Jett said Mr. |The man fled in Mr. Ton's army walked from a streetcar line. Mrs. H." H. Arnholter, 47 8.'Telephone Pioneers of America. the

Horace B. Coldwell, 6215

Telephone Co. employee, died yesafter a short ill- § . | ness. He was 61. A lifelong resapolis, Mr. Cold-| well retired in . years service in Carols Over Wire the trafic de- Twenty-two high school and) Indiana Bell Tel- senting Christmas music proephone Co, He grams today and tomorrow on Second nual -holiday program will end| Presbyterian Christmas Eve, { 8t. Joan of Arc Church, directed by JoAnn Krieger, and the Bur-

in Methodist Hospital ident of Indian- : Shoppers to Hear April - after 44 ¢ partment of the/civic organization choirs are perwas a member Monument Circle. The 10-day an-| |Ghurch and thé Indiana Chapter, The Junior St. Cecelia Choir of roughs Concert Choir, directed by

|. He is survived by his wife,

the farm home of Harley Ches-|telephone, Mr: Ton started walk-istumbied to her - home ShOrtlyisgs. 1datharie Rogers Coldwellilyane johnson. Burroughs, will be

ser, 54, A ling down the road. He was struck iatter 1 a. m. and collapsed.

Chesser readily admitted firing by a car whose driver failed to

two daughters, Mrs. Chester W.[ 0 +e twilight program. today,

two shots at Mr. Lidster but de-|see him. Hospital attendants said hing I sc > mn ch Beaman an io oma aL beginning at 5 p. m. clared he did so in self-defense. he suffered a fractured pelvisi o ipo victim's clothing eatiered]

Two Salvation Army groups--T. Gray and Mrs. Charles Kotte-| po Songsters, directed by Mrs.

Prosecutor Jett said he ‘would |and a severe head injury. [near 'a garage and house Ohman, all of Indianapolis, and yr. ior Ray Genge, and the Brass

bind Chesser over to the Grand se.

Jury next month. No .formall MEANWHILE, Leslie Lenn,| Her

charges have been placed against ions marshal at Osborne, Mo. police sald nothing had beenrow in Flanner & Buchanan Morjdiscovered a man lurking in an taken from it. ! igo Count with an order to put up his venues Her Wa o County au- t : . ; . thorities that Monddy he had|.aands, the marshal opened fire. a eh fable 10. tall or herentiv:l Miss Mary Cronin found Mr. Lidster and Mrs. Chea Mr. Ton's truck was parked | -® you ay from work and! |nearby and troopers who hadi o 4c tear at Spencer Aves Capitol Ave. died yesterday in|rector and Bessie Whitted accom{been manning a roadblock said |. E. Washington St |S He asked the couple what they there was no doubt that the man | AS she walked South. on Spenc-| month's {llness. She was a life-|

the prisoner. : Finds Couple ~~ ~~ Chesser told

laliey there. Instead of complying

ser holding a conversation behind the Chesser hen house.

Spencer Ave. purse was also found. but|, Services at 10:30 a. m. tomor- bert Hill-—will also perform.

three grandchildren. Choir, directed by Brigadier Her-

| . Wired Carols {tuary will be followed by cre-| - Tonight, from 7 to 8p. m,, the +mation. Torch Bearers and the St. John A.M. E, Junior Choir will sing] {from the south steps of the MonuMiss Mary Cronin, 3434 N. ment*Nolla Jean Hamilton is di-

t. Vincent's Hospital after a|panist for the groups.

were talking about but he said killed was the object of their... man about 20 years old, time resident of Indianapolis. She sent Christmas music tomorrow, | , s ol

Mr, Lidster left with the words, hunt« ’

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care of you.” .

{grabbed her and dragged her be-

Mr. Lidster returned last night} : . authorities said, and attempted «Yule Phone Lines enter the “ront door of the Ches-| » B.A Wow |® Spencer Ave."

{tween houses in the 100 block in

ser home, It was then that Mr.

Chesser fired at Mr. Lidster.

the neck. He was dead when police ar- in rived, called by a neighbor to, Employees: Irked

whom Mrs. Chesser ran after the| i By. Wage Appeal

shooting, Mr. Jett said. f " Couple Parted | (Continued From Page One)

{followed her. she said. | A short, distance from Wash-| “Tington” St. she told police; he

| Her slacks were torn from her. she was a member. i

by garage where he attempted to assault her.

|died at 81. {beginning at 11:30 a. m. They| g are the Warren Central High|

Burial will be in Holy Cros Cemetery following - services at Seto) brass ensemble, the Moth-|

8:30 a. m. tomorrow in Kirby] Mortuary and at 9 a. m. in St. Chorus.

{Thi Aquinas Church, of which| From 5 to 6 p. m. the St. Mel {Thomas Aquin {rad Students’ Choir, the St. Ce-

celia Choir and the Ogden June

“She is survived by two sistars,.

{ ‘ |nolice were fold”and her assailant] x One ‘shot struck: Mr. Lidster «May Be Sluggish tied hér with he stockings. Miss ‘Adelaide Cronin and Miss Choir will sing. . He then forced her into a near-| Katherine Cronin, Indianapolis,

From 7 to 8 p. m. music will

iand a brother, Frank G. Cronin, [be presented by the Lutheran | | Chicago. ) : {Welfare Association, the Crooked { . : [Creek Baptist Church Choir, the

-|Brightwood Methodist Church]

‘Reported Theft of Tree "Prospect Masons, -OES |Chofr andthe Allison Engineer!

“The prosecutor said Lidster and ers, one said, but “refuse to Lights Brings Complaint {To Hold Christmas Fete "8 Department Men's Chorus.

his wife were separated Saturday|stand by an arbitration award|

file suit for divorce. million.” ; ‘Mr. Yett said ‘there were indi«: The company's appeal to. .the| attempting to force his affections: a review of the-arbitration award’ on Mrs. objections. The prosecutor said Mr. Chess- The law prohibits strikes in {again er would be held on open charges public utilities and requires ar-| " pending Grand Jury investiga- pitration by a state arbitration). help. tion. He said there. had been panel as the last resort in gettle-| “some dispute” between the Lid- ment of utilities labor disputes. sters and Chessers for some time. | In its appeal today the comCoroner James V. Richert in-ipany held the arbitration panel vestigated but withheld a ver-\was without jurisdiction to decide dict. He and Prosecutor, Jett said| the case since no contract was | _ Mr. Lidster was unarmed wheniat stake. he went £0 the Chesser home last Invoked Last September

% night. . A The law was invoked by divi“Isions 1 and 56 of the Communi

{mémber arbitration panel ap-

| pointed by Gov. Gates to settle {the dispute awarded the em-

Marijuana Joints ployees wage increases of 10-and

Whole Department |i per cent.

X | “The company is not trying to, Thrown Into Drive ‘avoid a wage increase,” company! (Continued From Page One)

‘vice president Charles W. Potter special teams of plainclothes de- Zaid, fom TR SeGIS very righ tectives and uniformed police to “2 e board's blange er} the case in an effort to “protect conforms to the law or that the y |order is supported by the evidence

city-boys and girls.” : A Investigators said they learned that Was presented by -the -com-,. . i pany and by the unions.

that young men and women, some. of them teen-age, were having il-| “It also is questionable whether, licit relations at various parties in|the board had the power to arbi-| . town. - itrate in this case at all. Our exIn one report, an officer de- isting three-year contracts with! scribed one such party as a “place| the unions specify the way in where men and women indulge in which wages changes are to be: perverted acts.” larrived at.” 1 ; Two Make Confessions i Used Mostly by Unions . > The company will contend in Two men jailed in a week-end jts appeal that only the wage raid in 2025 Sheldon St. made clauses of the contracts were in-! verbal confessions to the police yolved under a reopening agree-| that they were marijuana ment and that in other respects smokers. ° the contracts continued in full} ‘One man whom police described force. # as the leader of the gang bragged - mne compulsory arbitration about unnatural relations with the’; w widely attacked by organgroup. ized labor. as the “little brother Two teen-age girls picked “up to the .Taft-Hartley law” has] in one raid were released in the peen .invoked more often by custody of - their. parents. afier unions than. by mise

dangers of associating with dope-:

Sters and. perverts. The law was credited by its]

| sponsors with keeping Hoosier)

wool 2l-year-old girl. picked UR oiaphones il service URINE AHL. come

Jater In subiher oe were of | nationwide strike of the spring] Jeased yesterday in $500 bond of 1947 although Bell Telephone She admitted Daving attended] Crkers in. Indiana Yeosived ey several of the group's parties. | same settlement as workers in| ___ Federal narcotic agents, work. Struck states. gon ing in concert with city police; Lo : said marijuana was being culti- Yule Gift Exchange

vated locally. a ae ak Lodge oo

Meanwhile, it was learned that f an. abandoned. truck with from be held by the Irvington Rebekah | 25 to 30 cartons of marijuana Lodge for members and "their! “ cigarets was confiscated by fed- families. at 7:30 p. m. today in! eral agents in eastern Tndland. the Todge hall, ‘5420% EB. Wash-| a slim chance the dope peddled, =~ Mra. Mary Hicks 1 inthe eastern part-of-the state chirge of the program. Mrs. Ra-|

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‘was reachiifg Here. ‘chaél Barciay-ts Noble Grand.

Tojo, Six Jap War Lords Go to Death on Gallows

RIN RE 3 (Continued From Page One) , premiership only after it became and southéast Asia. His governobvious the war was lost. ment signed the anti-comintern r of China’ pact with Germany, sealing Tojo shot himself below the | Japan's partnership with the axis. heart in an attempt to commit, Seishiro Itagaki, a close per-/-suicide on Sept. 11, 1945. But heisonal and professional friend of] was saved by American Army Tojo, was war minister from June, surgeons and lived to become the [1938 to August. 1939. During the only one of the three axis dic-|War years he was commander of tators to be tried for crimes|Japanese forces in Malaya, Java) , against humanity, and Sumatra. Doihara, known as the “Tiger| Kimura was vice-minister of of China” and the “Lawrence of war under Tojo and later comManchuria,” was the Japanese manded Japanese forces in Burmost hated by the Chinese people. ma where numerous atrocities| He was the brutal, swaggering |were committed. He, with Itagaki, manufacturer of “incidents” tosigned the surrender of Singa-i . further Japan's expansion on the pore in 1945. Asiatic continent. = | Matsui, aging military fanatie,# He and Hirota were the two| commanded the Japanese army men who appealed to the U. S.!in China at the time of the 1937 Supreme Court in a vain last- rape of Nanking. He was presminute attempt to escape the ident of Japan's “new Asia sonoose. - The high court held that ciety,” a propaganda group dedit was without jurisdiction to re- {leated to winning East Asiatics view a case with such an in-ito the idea of a co-prosperity ternational complexion. |sphere under Japanese dominaHirota, premier of Japan dur- tion. ing 1936 and 1937, was ofie of Lt. Gen. Muto, junior ranking seven, leaders of the insidious member of the condemned sevBlack Dragon society, Secrét na-|gh, was chief of the-war- office; tionalistic . organization that military affairs bureau under spread a pall of fear over Jap-|{Tojo and later commanded a di-anese-occupied territories during vision in Sumatra. Late in the the war. It was Hirota’s cabinet, war he was chief of staff of the the allied tribupal found, which 14th area agmy in the Philipformulated Japan's original polity pines. oo ; hk HE

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