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' WORECAST: Fair and colder tonight and tomo

. Low tonight, 5 above. High tomorrow; 20.

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Er a 59th YEAR_NUMBER 206 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1,,1949

~ Watts Presses. Battle To Escape Chair as _. 30-Day Reprieve Comes

U.S. Supreme Court Gives Killer New Lease On Life With Dramatic Stay of Execution The day that he feared he might not live to see—today — —found condemned slayer Robert Austin Watts ready to; | continue his fight for his life in the nation’s highest court.| "The 27-year-old former Indianapolis city truck driver who was to have been executed at midnight was given a 30-day reprieve from death last night, just a few hours!‘

oe nr a FIT, Colder Is Groundhog za Forecast

morning, still in_the “death cell” y Animal Will See

at Indiana State Prison at MichiShadow Tomorrow,

gan City. ‘Because the reprieve _ Predicter Thinks

came so late last night, he was not transferred back to his reguLOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am. 21 10a m.. 24

lar cell. He was to be transferred back 7a m.. 2 11a m.. 27 8a m.. 19 12 (Noom) 30

upstairs early today, to the seclu9a m.. 21 1 pom.. 31

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sion barracks which houses him and Tour other men awaiting exe-| cution. . Will Start to Work ~ As soon as he is settled back in his. cell, Watts is expected to start work on his appeal to the Supreme Court for a setting aside of the verdicts of the Indiana courts. In granting “the 30-day reprieve yesterday, the U. 8. court ruled that ‘Watts’ formal appeal must be filed by Feb. 14. Lawyers from the National As-| ~ sociation for the Advancement of Colored People in New York are

preparing legal documents. colder through tomorrow included | Chlorine Tank Topples| A

Handwritten Plea. lew clouds to mar th K % : e sky on His last appeal to the Indiana Groundhog Day. The immer “At Chicago School BE A ones CHICAGY, Fel 1 TUPI “MOTE

Supreme Court consisted of five - fr wosors MDIERIA. AOONmERtSy all hands reek Ke Br boy YE, 9 en 2 ed Daper how Po Mr. Miller, however, would not than 55 children were overcome | dwritfen appeal to the U. §, 54 that the groungh6g’s peekor made ill today when poisonous court after the Indiana court re- At Dis shadow will insure sixichlorine gas seeped through Kel-| fused hls appeal and declined to| TOT Weeks of winter. vyn Park High School. take further jurisdiction. Partly Cloudy Skies . Fifteen of the victims were, Prison officials said Watts was| ne weatherman said snow | taken to hospitals, but none was sitting down to eat what was to probably” will fall Thursday or reported in serious condition. The have been his “last supper” at Friday, before a slight rise in|pest were treated in neighboring | about 6:30 p. m. last night when | emperature Friday. He expected homes by ambulance crews, fire| he was informed that the stay ‘the comparative warm spell to be| department rescue squads and! {of short duration, predicting it |private doctors,

had been granted. : Warden Ralph Howard, eputy (would be colder again Saturday The gas was used at the school] and Sunday. |to purify water in the swimming,

Warden L. C, Schmuhl- and three members of the poate of trustees| Partly cloudy skies were in- i

Mrs. Clifford R. Goodwin Sr. righty ind her mother, Mrs. Eva Pickel . . . they leaped So simultaneously from a tecond sory Minton» as fire gutted their home early this morning at 200! Miller St.

55 Prep rep Pupils Overcome by Gas

It looks' very much as if the groundhog will see his shadow

tomorrow, Chier Meteorologist {Paul Miller said today. His ( prediction of fair and

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Indianapolis, Ind. Issued Daily

-year-old Navy and Merchant Marihe veteran ' “was severely ton sly;

blazing home month-old daughter in i iv —_ Struggling back to his feet after the 14 or 15-foot drop, the veteran caught his 44-month-old

his mother-in-law before cols lapsing.

Sr, is In General Hospital with a broken left ankle, an injured

AE a : small son were treated. for frst, Clifford R. Goodwin | PEI Novy ‘veteran eto to foil a and driven from home by fire.

‘19-month-old daughter’ of Goodwin Who was cradled in her father's arms when he leaped, 2 Mr. Goodwin's wife, Mary Ellen; _ and her mother, “Mrs. Eva = Pickel, 39. apparently discovered the fire at the same time at about 1:14 a. m. Mrs. Pickel rushed downstairs. “in an Shtmps to reach the tele.

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when. labor pains started. in Nodoors, the baby wis born.

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Howard learned of the stay from |92Y and tonight. A high of 25! The tank in which it was stored | telegram from the court itself be-| igh of 20 forecast for tombrrow. which led to. the pool. Schont au anitor the news calmly, Mr. Miller sald, A Jani discovered. the top Be iu ange im i filing out of the bullding in| td a family of five fled the burned out “The supper consisted of shrimp, Rain or snow will ‘average one-| Some vollapser in the corridors, | on : | Boy Born in- Snow | southeast for this period, accordThe pri Senator Seeki : as ‘snow northwest and rain or ing them, then told Watts he might - {moved today to request Congress PORTLAND, Or oO Feb. 1 (UP) Four Persons Hurt; | : hoy Earlier Watts sald goodby to! Two Hurt When Cab A similar resolution has been doing all right fn po 3e posted Mrs. Lucille Hardimah, Chicago. neither seriously, today when ‘a Publican representative, but the (UP) community subsided A. Stafford Jr. Portland. + broke down. Watts’ young wife, | {Onso St. | Dudley St. is in fair condition at|Similir measure in the House was were reported injured and 14 °° she stood outside her garage, life at the “11th hour. He was hig face, head and left leg. A area dropped more than 20 feet had } little warning that the baby's An “an attempt to attack Mrs. ig 10th St. received an injury to “ANDERSON, Feb. 1 —TRetall the Hudson - Coal Co., occurred veo, 1047. at the hospital, police said. |Dairymen said the decline in the ceded the cave-in and enabled | H in May, 1948. He won two re-/was not hurt. OE pany: Which cry and had to grope in the snow appeals {about the incident. Police had no! and the baby, her first, were | Residents in the section said it = "0 0 boy “Snowbird.” Around the World . . . a capsule review of toment by “the Marion County {20,000 persons in northeastern i ugh she did - not lose conmade by former Prosecutor Judto oust Gates Some $39,900 repaid into Indi- Senate Studies business, Everett L.- Gardner, di! The United States hopes to dis- $50 million quiz program No. 2 ay | “Man and Superman” would be willing to enter the pro-| Butler pe by Henry other amusement notes whom faced legal prosecution, re- to. all Hookier children between hinted strongly today. Murder on the Fighmays 3. 13... a graphic report on the Jasper post\by Victor Peterson claims. imiittes on education. |employment benefits by fraud are Was incorporated in ‘a measure “Anton Scherrer . . . other local and national obd Sen. Jack O'Grady (D. Terre on pages of interest to them . .Pages 11-12-13 lallowances to which they are not! The bill also’ provides for the imprisonment up to one year, or [valuation to finance the program. " « « » Other sports tessncsnsnnaciiniasnes Pages 14-15 i y red Champion, the horse of Gene day feature suresskessssnaniananiinnassseePRgE [Manages Hong | Business. ..., 4|Mets Given 1%, 6 Radio........ T Teen Prob....13, Ofcers of the firm" préscaieg special {corrdl. ‘The horse, “di-| Crossword... 8 Dr. Jordan... 13 Ruark....... 9 Weather map 4 cake with one dandle. Mr. Hardy form some of the tricks which

took him the Warden icluded in the prediction for to- Tank Topples | Gov. Schricker at 4:30 p. m. but degrees today will give way*to a in the school basement toppled, waited fof the official confirming ow of 5 above tonight, with albreaking a connecton with a pipe! fore telling Watts... __Rain_and a Due... |thorities said the fumes were sent| “Takes News . 9 thay the wenti-. egTees than normal lating system. I Prison ofials ia v in Indiana for the next five days, ting 4 “I'm glad” _ said as Warden (Normal m pled tank. The firm alarm Yop! aximum for this pe-|rang and the school's 1450 pupils | , Howard read the message to him.|qo4 1s 32 north, 45 south. Nor- pup J mal minimum 17. north, 25 orderly fashion they had been | re . “I sure hate to miss that sup- , as they ha n hatch in fire . . . per, though.” puts.) Instructed to do In fire drills. . | Goodwin home through this second story window; tenth inch in forthwestern In- however, and were carried from t toes, - ) ee bis diana tu nearly one inch in the| the building by their schoolmates. The prison oMelals joked about ing.to the forecast. It will occur GOP “IAs Fa ther Holds splitting the shrimp between ‘snow southeast on Thursday and U.S. Funds for Wabash As Mine Caves In ‘Mother in Arms eat the meal. Friday. A Republican state senator | x Mother Breaks Down ! ito provide additional flood control! ; — Little “Snowbird.” the hoi | facilities in the. Wabash River, 14 H Da Xe od born in the BROW, Was his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Wats, Collides With Auto omes Damag n napolis, an sister,, Two. persons were injured, lintroduced in the House by a Re- CARBONDALE. Pr FL tarium & Hospital today, and The visit lasted less: than a half Req Cab Co. vehicle collided with Measure is still in committee. Whole city block in thisiso. was his mother, Mrs am hour 4nd ended when Mrs. Watts another éar at Highland Ave. and! Sen. Wesley Malone. (R. Clin anthracite birth to the ton}. introduced the senate con- today when an underground mine Mrs. Stafford gave ably soda oo stood beside him during his| Harlan Ray Sims, 17, of 2202 E, current resolution today. The caved in. At least four persons ® Pound S-ounce boy early today, Vv "Tt was the third time the courts General Hos introduced Jan. 25 by Rep. La held in her husband's arms. pital where he was! introduc n. y Pp. Ng homes- badly damaged. have given Watts a new lease on taken after suffering bruises on Helt (R. Dana). Some sections in the cave-in| Mrs. Stafford said the family convicted by a Shelby County passenger in the car driven by, Milk Prices Dro below the surface. al was imminent. jury in January, 1948, of murder sims, Henry Adams, 60, of 2039 mes State op. The subsidence, over a mine of nother son carried Mrs. Stafford “Lois Burney, North Side his right thumb and bruises on milk prices dropped: one cent a while most of the residents were apolis housewife, this left leg but refused treatment quart here today to 19 cents. asleep. A warning -rumble -preFirst Date in May, 1948 Driver of the cab, Robert E./cost of the milk purchased from most of them to escape. He was first scheduled to die Jackson, 22, 1828 N. Alabama St., farmers made possible the reduc|employs about 100. persons in the ; “5.4 it. prieves from the Indiana Supreme ~ |De Angelis mine, refused to talk! The slight, Court .as they considered his Or ‘de Watts, confessed slayer of both n the Ins e reports of any possible injurfes {taken to Portland Sanitariung * : a |Hospital, where nurses soon nickMrs. Burney and Mrs. Mabel tod : : Mef¥ifield; has asked for a new ved forces take over Peiping amid fanfare . . . |was the second subsidence in the| aed A ata count! trial, charging that his indict- 3 [last week In this town of about| oo... the event clearly, alay's news ... Grand Jury was faulty because - Pennsylvania. | Negroes have been systematically|Schricker names ex-CIO director as secretary of tte “Snowbird” will be barred from duty on the grand] pypjic Service Commission ..Page2 $39,900 Repaid State lknown formally as William Scott jury. 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from the house to the garage measure which es been called ,

And “the missing pappy bilL"” while he tried to open the garage

20-vear-old mother now

Cecil. G. Hardy, 6028 Park Ave, star, will'make an appearance to-|

Lucindia Ellon Goodwin, 9 month old, and. her brother Clifford R. Jr. held by sunt, Mrs. Helen Kaley, efter escape from

= Submits Missing & Sho Pappy’ Measure

Jacobs Introduces Bill in House

baby, Clifford R. Goodwin ny into his arms. : Mrs, Pickel then pulled her (Jaughier to the window and they almost simultaneously. in the Head, | osing. the woman outlined in the

window, Mr. y Tells Doctor: e tde-

dren safely placed to one Side again. stepped forward ing to 1 an Take It’

break their faMs. Giver Shelter TULSA, Okla. Feb, 1 (UP)=1q The tousle-headed kid shufied into the doctor's office and announced with a grin that was Times Washington Suresw short a few teeth: “I been shot WASHINGTON, Feb, 1-— Aright square in the middle of the, Hoosier freshman Democrat to- head.”

Seven-year-old David Rollins | © day introduced fn the House a wasn't kidding. Probing through’ 527 Hiatt, Other members of the

family, except Mr, Goodwin, rosmall hole in he center of nis forehead, Dr. G. M. Richard: fuel ers after being treated: It gives federal courts power fon. Tulsa osteopath, jound a “Mrs. Pickel also réceived to enforce child-support and al 22-caliber bullet flattened against treats

the skull, ent for cuts on her face, legs imony payments whére the di-| x. -rays showed the bullet was and arms, gS vorced husband has moved to

. Firemen were unable to deter. ressing against the skull but another state. Only. state courts hadn't dented it, although the end Mine the cause of the blaze, but function in this field. of the metal was .frayed into said it started on the first floor Rep. Andrew Jacobs, Indian- several fragments. of the five-room frame house with apolis, who introduced the bill, PE brick covering. : offered the following explanation! apg CAME within ‘a hairs. The inside of ‘the house was of it: breadth of being killed,” sald Dora Sutted. ~All furniture and be- be“It 1s the purpose of this bill Cress, nurse for the" doctor. longings of the family ‘to require parents to discharge Later it was learned he had|Stroyed. The Goodwins had ine their obligations to~ their chil- been. hit by a stray bullet by a Surance on the house. but hone on dren, regardless of the shortcom-'15.year-old boy. near a dump the furniture, ings of cither or both parents. yard southeast of the city. Mr, Goodwin, an employee of Protects Spouse Miss Cross thumbed through he Smithers. Roofin Cry phent “It protects the husband or wife @ child's book while the doctor MOSt of his e in Wi ar wh Rey are Without a prepared to take out the bullet [Service with the fleet in the Ate “I am informed that besides the But David didn’t need to be dis- lantie.

ted. privations suffered by thousands ‘“#¢ of half-orphaned children, liter- YOU don’t have to give he Livestock Die ie In Farm Fire

ally millions of dollars in public Anything. # for the pain, Dec, ’ funds are used to support: chil- declare “1 can take it. oo | A twe-sfory barn and livestock jvalued at $1500 were destroyed

dren of able-bodied parents, usu- nC Vt ally the father who takes refuge, Report Rescue by fire late. esterday on the farm of Robert D. Wood, 6700 block

in another state, has received sup- Of B- 29 Survivors ‘Shapghat Rd. “northwest of Tne

“The proposal port and indorsement from wide- LONDON. Feb. 1 (UP)- The dianapolis. spread sources. Only recentl Xi e et ned that the 1947 Se al Daily ‘Telegraph cdrrespondent in, Mr. Wood said loss included one convention .of the American Le- [As Palmas. Canary Islands, said row. e!ght pigs, 30 bushels of soy today that it had been reported beans.’ 10 bushels of wheat, 50 gion adopted a resolution calling there that survivors of a missing bushels of corn and tools and ime upon ' the federal government to deal with this problem.” American B-29 Superfortress had plements, been rescued. |. Neighbors formed .a bucket United States Air Force head- brigade in attempting to out {quarters at Bushey Park, Eng-| the flames until In fires

Industrial Show and and the British Air Ministry men arrived. Mr. Wood no knowledge of the report, (home and garage were

Will: Open Feb. 9 The American plane dis- “corched.

How to make ft cheaper and’ appeared. Thursday on a flight {better will be the theme of the from Africa to England with 15 Farm Residence Indians Industrial Show which men aboard, including Lt. Maurice! Almost Twill “open in the Manufacturers’ Smith of Brozi , Ind,

building in the State Fair Grounds sel Feb. 9 for four days. Change Meeting D Dote | iMr. and Mrs, Joe an oY Three hundred booths will dis-' Tye Indianapolis Bar Assocta- Ind. 534 and Dean Road he play the latest in indusirial 10018 tion, formerly scheduled to meet the White River. tomorrow, will meet instead oh The two-story Broom struce

and ‘equipment. It is expected some 50,000 will attend. Feb. 9 Kurt F, Pantzer is pro- ture Is owned Chi Fores gram chairman, |man, 5620 N. Ld ot

The show will be sponsored by the Purchas) ents Associa- A —————— A —— ri ye, an RITES FOR PRLSS HEAD : + WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 SLU

on of Indianapolis, of which The 8 Best, He Funeral services were to be held 5 :

Johnson, American Paper D3 Co., is president. today for Fleming Newold, pres (UP) == A "ti man of/the show, E. F. Andrews is ident of the Washington Star tar rubber. ball, Ppa

Dan Young is general chair show chairman, assisted by V, L. who died at his home here Ee among

ropped. The family was. ’shiitered by! Mr. and Mrs, Jamés Wills; 1518 Hiatt, while an ambulance: was: being called,” The uninjured child was taken 0 the Home of Mrs. Helen Kelley,

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