Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 February 1949 — Page 3
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- Radio Operaic ‘Breaks Down’ ° On U. S.-Bound Shi: GIBRALTAR, Feb. 19 (UP)— The American freighter William Phips returned to Gibraltar today and ‘put ashore its radio operator after he had suffered a “nervous breakdown” and flashed a series of frantic messages indicating Shere was a mutiny aboard the
The radio operator was taken to a hospital In Gibraltar. : The garbled messages, one of they are trying to Sued & om destroyer after the William Phips investigate a possible mutiny. The freighter passed the Rock Gibraltar this morning bound Galveston, Tex., from Naples, taly. Shortly afterward, the U. 8. Army Transport Gen. Stuart Heinzleman picked up the first dim SOS near the Azores. Subsequent messages, flashed in rapid succession, which were picked up at other points, said: “Got Pierce radio operator . . .
a
£8
smoking me . please get bearing.” (In New Orleans, an official of | the Lykes Shiping Company, | which operates the ship, said the! William 3 hometown unknown, and| carried a crew of 45 including a radio operator named Pierce. ship left Galveston last month with a load of grain.)
Bartender Kills Armed Patron |
Shoots After Being
Target of 5 Shots RICHMOND, Feb. 19 (UP)— Police said tonight that John Seery, 27, was shot and killed by a bartender here following an ar-| gument over a drink. Authorities said Seery went into a downtown bar, demanded a drink and fired five wild shots at bartender Charles Hoffmeister when he was refused. Mr. Hoffmefster, a former New York policeman, grabbed a pistol and fired twice, wounding Seery fatally. ‘Troublé Maker’ Police said Seery had a minor police record and was known as a “trouble maker.” They said Seery first argued with Mrs. Forrest Fought, wife of the tavern’s owner, before picking on Mr. Hoffmeister. ’ When he was refused his drink, police said, he whipped out his pistol and fired. Mr. Hoffmeister was not injured. ) ’ Police said Mr. Hoff meister was being questioned. No charges were filed against him.
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§ CIO to ‘Mop Up’ Reds
In Unions on Coast WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (UP) ~CIO sources said tonight that a “mop up” campaign against Communist influence in CIO affairs is expected to start next week in California. CIO Vice President Allan 8. . Haywood, top lieutenant in the anti-Communist drive, is scheduled to leave next week for Los Angeles. He will investigate a petition from a group of rightwing unfons demanding ouster of the City Industrial Union Los Angeles, San Francisco and the California State Council are the only big groups directly under CIO administration still in the hands of left-wingers, CIO officials said. :
TVA Retains Freedom
Under Hoover Report ‘WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (UP) ~The Hoover - Commission. - has rejected a recommendation by one of its “task forces” that the Ten-
nessee Valley Authority be placed]
under Interior-Department direction, it was learned today. . The proposed change was strongly supported by Chairman Herbert Hoover at a commjssion meeting Thursday. But a majority ‘of the 12-man group on government reorganization voted to leave undisturbed TVA's status as an independent organization which reports to the President. The big power authority in the Tennessee Valley. area has 15.200 employees. Its 36 plants produce 2,206,000 kilowatts of power.
Moscow Says West Misjudges Red Army
LONDON, Feb. 19 (UP)—Radlo Moscow claimed today that Anglo-American military men are trying to conceal the accomplishments of the Soviet army in the last war. Such efforts are not succeeding, the broadcast said. It quoted Lt Gen. Galadjev, head. of the political department of the Soviet army, as saying that western military men are alarmed
at the popularity of the Soviet
armed forces and the authority of
people of the world. : The broadcast said Gen. Galad-
fev spoke at the general staff Assbclath
held in honor of the 35th anniversary of the Soviet army.
Scientech Club -to Hear Talk on South America
Lt. Col. R. H. Brown, foreign representative, Illinois’ Central Railroad, will speak on “Industrial and Commercial Trends in South America” tomorrow during a noon meeting of the Scientech Club of Indianapolis in the Ant“Meg Habel. oh vetwoen : liason cer Former st hotwes
‘several recent: trips to Central
Indies.
America and the West
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|8ray, and smoking his favorite
the Boviet army In thé eyes of the!
editor and a journalism professor.
Hilton
U. Brown Faces 90 Puffing His Favorite Cigars: = «nmin
Hilton U.- Brown, George Leamson and Dr. DeForest O'Dell «+ « at 90, a senior newspaperman has something:
Countless Hoosiers Hail Birthday
With Telegrams, Letters, Flower By HAROLD HARTLEY
Today hundreds ‘of Hoosiers will climb the winding walk to| “The Rocks” on the crown of the hill at 5087 E. Washington St.| Phips was captained by hey Will be there to shake the hand of one of the town's most
respected and honored citizens,
For Hilton U, Brown it will be the day on which he, and count- | The | less well-wishers, celebrate his 90th b
mansion atop the grass-carpeted hill.
Last night Mr. Brown, the editor and good citizen, faced his
brown eyes and a smile-etched| face In his book-walled library,! laden with mementos from the| friends who have meant most to- him- along- the way. { In his housecoat of West Point
cigar (he still smokes 10 to 12 a day), he lifted his feet to the corner of his desk and looked over his shoulder into the fallen
dusk. “Strange Light” “There's been a strange light out this evening,” he said, “amber and gold.” Then after a pause, “I've been surprised -- overwhelmed the flowers.” He motioned to his daughters, “The girls put them out where it's cold.” His son-in-law, Floyd Mannon; attorney, brought in a tray piled high with letters and telegrams of congratulations. They were from men high in political and business life, and old, time-tested friends. Even while he was talking two more came, one from Louisiana and one from some one at Polk's Dairy. ‘ +On- Friday he had been to a meeting of the Jordan Foundation where the other members surprised him with a resolution, and presented him with flowers. And Butler University where he was elected to the board by the alumni. in 1888 (he’s—been board president since 1903) sent] (him a. basket with 90 jonquils, | {one for each year. a { Knew Woodrow Wilson | The widely-traveled -editor |emeritus of The News, naw vice! {president of the Indianapolis
|
+
(Newspapers, Inc., nas been far enough, on a quadruple toss from Greenwald was “because he didn't the world including the Paris’ workman to Prison Trustee Car-| split the $2000 with anybody.” peace meetings ter Manny to Clemency Secretary | he knew Woodrow Wilson| Frank Tukey in the Governor's) investigation by former Attorney | office and from there to the court. General James Emmert to uncov-|. tier the details of the $2000 pay“I've grown up with. the town.|led Judge Gilkison in the recent ment, Judge Gilkison told two [Fve~tried to adjust. There's no| interview to contend that “cer remmieb comparison. Women used to sew|tain persons” within the prison more, skim the milk and make | administration must have known washed it neatly.”
Believes Workman ‘Dangerous’ Risk
{and Versailles | where as he has many presidents. “It's -a different age,” he said.
butter. more.” Viewing the peace problem from a 90-year-wide horizon, he said, “The trouble with Europe is the differences in languages, habits and currency. Only the
Now they can get out
|of neighboring countries. | “When I was at the Peace Con- | ference in 1826" =. at's a Century?’ | His daughter stopped him. “You {mean 1926.”
Mr. Brown who has an LL.D
tian Church. “What's the subject?” His eyes twinkled again. “Why ‘Ninety Years’, of course.”
winds up the walk to the hilltop mansion of Hilton U. Brown,
devotion coming back to
touch his hand. .
Feb.
irthday in his 5540 Die, 20 Injured In French Train Wreck | Maj. Gen. Lewis A. Pick, com-
19
| 90th birthday with twinkling PORT D’ATELIER, France, tion Snowbound” said that relief (UP) — Forty persons were killed and 20 injured serious-|P ly last night when the NancyDijon express collided with a sin-|Qnly .in North Dakota was the gle locomotive, police said today,!situation bad.
o tell a college
year-old | regijents, the West was begin{ning to see an jmprovement ih,
much of the country from a sharp
The new snow extended from Montana and northern Wyoming through-the Dakotas and Minne-
and Michigah by tomorrow, How-
ever, the weather bureau said it
‘But, after two months lof blizzards and storms and {emergencies for livestock and
{almost all the states.
/manding Fifth Army's *“Operameasures were making “excellent s.” He said that the snow battle was about over in South {only and most of Nebraska.
Judge Believes Politicians ‘Got $50,000 for Parole
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tion” from Mr, Greenwald to the The letter quoted Mr. Jenner as
jof this statement and that he did.
{given by auto companies to alll
sota. It was due in Wisconsin|the
So today, then the procession
court. In that letter he said, in substance, that Frank Souerdike, triggerman in the shooting for which Workman was sentenced,
has told him he had reason to/less he was “well paid for it.”
believe that William E. Jenner would help him obtain clemency. Mr.. Jenner, now U. 8. Senator, was at that time state chairman of the Republican Party.
The letter said Mr. Greenwald (inject himself into the Workman
feit he should inform Mr. Jenner
Refused to Take Any Part
ON THE CONTRARY, it has was asked on another occasion if
Ott Workman and that he flatly refused to take any part in the case. Yet the Greenwald “letter of explanation” was followed by Mr. Greenwald's dismissal. The dismissal, in turn, was followed by wide~| spread rumors that Mr. Greenwald had been fired “to shield some-
| avout the transaction. Since pay-
body.” The second unexplained circumstance involved the fact that the major investigation by the at-
{torney general and two state po-|
Tice detectives in 1945 failed to turn up the $2000 payment by Workman to Mr. Greenwald. Not until months later,” when Mr.| Greenwald was on the carpet before the court, did the official break on the fee come. Then it seemed to come easily’
Tardiness of this
* JUDGE GILKISON today is
(brother, James Gilkison, testified
. , /that Ott Workman's. reputation | : “How can RepubN Jus tase lit up. “What's a cen-| was “bad.” licans or a Repub can adminis. ye Jie sald. “That's close In Workman's 1940 suit 0 tration be accused of keeping him enough. break his father’s will which dis-|
inherited him, both Frank and
(one son-in-law calls him doctor) | James Gilkison testified on the will preach a sermon this morn- opposite side. Judge Gilkison is ing at the Downey Avenue Chris-| on record in -the-earliest attempt rarast of the citizens of Martin
|by Workman to obtain parole as opposing it. And he unwaveringly | opposes it now. As for Workman's being a “political prisoner,” Judge Gilkison pointed out in the interview that Workman, a Democrat, “was con-
Workman would be a “dangerous” parole risk. His own connection with the Workman case is largely a matter of record since the time | they were of opposite political faiths back in Martin County years {higher classes speak ‘the tongues, =~ "Ay an attorney, Judge Gilkison at one time or another has been {retained by both Frank Souer-|crstic Governors, overruled on apdike, whose testimony sent Work- peal by a Democratic Supreme ~+-| man to.prison, and by. Workman. court and “finally patroled by a himself. In the Workman trial, a Republican.”
saying he felt no obligation to Souerdike in the matter and that,
cerned, he would do
What the court's reaction was to this letter is not a matter of record, although no subsequent investigation ever has connected Mr. Jenner with any effort to
lcase:
in Case
been established that Mr. Jenner there was any help he could give
ment was made by check in a Michigan City Bank and since certain prison personnel customarily accompany parolees to the train, Judge Gilkison there was no reason for the long lapse of time before the story came out. Judge Gilkison expressed a conviction that the sudden decision to spring the trap on Mr.
Commenting on failure of the
ey
TEepOrters: “That investigation white-
frank to say that he believes Ott
A Republican, himself, Judge
{a political prisoner since his pa- | role .was revoked?” , | His own interest today, Judge Gilkison said, “is simply the in-
| County who fear Ott Workman's | return.” | Although opposing Workman's {parole, the judge is on record as having recornmended parole for triggerman Souerdike. That's the way the Workman
contends, |
you will, in fact, be seeing a re-|victed by an all-Democrat jury, flection of 90 years of community | prosecuted by three Democrats and ‘defended by three Democrats, twice refused parole by Demo-
In Indianapolis—YVital Statistics
Story stands. The rest must be told in future developments.
THE END
EVENTS TODAY Sinfonietta, String Trie Concert — 2:30 b m, World War Memorial auditorium, Miss Betty Conley, Piane Recital—3 p. m., West Park Christian Church. Palestine Speech, “Opportunities for Broth. erhood” — T:30 p. m., First Baptist Church. Russian Film, p. m., Kirshbauym Community Cente: ———— . Indiana State Bottlers Association Conven-tion-—Severin Hotel, Contem Literature Group, American ing—1130 p. m. home of Mre. Heary & | gl: . m, ol . Henry A. | Wight, uh Carrollton Ave . {Free Chiest X-Rays Mobile Unit Services | Monument Circle, in front of Indiana polis~Power and Light Co. building, today through Prida;
Navy Club oeting m., Robert E. Ketinington American ' Reston Post, 4174 College Ave. MARRIAGE LICENSES
Merle Clark Profitt, 32, 1414 Hiatt; Juanita Adams, 19, 1421 Hiatt, Ralph Robert Millspaugh, 19, 1254 Perry; Geraldine R. Anderson, 19, 2042 Single ton .
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security benefits from the na. tion's auto makers. ’ | Delegates representing 95 ‘per cent of the UAW. membership,
voted to back Reuther’s proposal that $100 monthly pensions be
Ithrough Aug. 5 and a third “vet-
‘through’ July 1, while an audio-
Offer Four Sessions inning May 16 Butler University's summer schedule will go into effect on May 16, Dr. George F. Leonard, dire ctor of the sessions, announced yesterday. Divided into four units, the presummer term will continue from May 16 through June 3. The regular term will be held from June 14
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erans semester” will open on June 14 and continue through Aug. 26. The post-summer session will be held from Aug. 8 through Aug. 26. Five conferences, workshops and institutes have alse been planned, Mr. Leonard said. . A busihess education conference will be June 13 and run
visual aids conference will take place during June. 20 through
a woman. Dr. Rudenko believes the woman was the concubine of the recently discovered man. The entire body of the man was covered with artistically
animals, the scientist reported.
He sald the man must have been a prince or a tribal chief in view of the I articles found in his tomb, including a magnificent chariot which probably was his hearse. Dr. Rudenko said the tomb also contained leather carpets with embroidered animal figures, wooden diadems covered with thin lay-
June 25. From June 20 through July 29 a laboratory school, grades 1A to 5, will be held. A guidance conference has been planned for July 11 through July 16. A kindergarten-elementary confeérence will be held July 18 through
when they become 60. They rub-| ber-stamped his other demands, already approved by the UAW Sansutive board, for medical Welfare benefits, and ugreed social security program) should come before. wage creases. EE ——————
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ers of gold, bronze mirrors, carved furniture, jewelry, and furs. He said the mummified body was well preserved because of the peculiar construction of the buriel mound which kept the inside temperature below freezing. : Bodiés of 28 Horses The woman's body which Dr.
Courses also will be offered in|Rudenkd fourid earlier was equalthe university’s evening division|ly well preserved. She is believed during the summer months in|to have been a skilled musician
tory, political science,
work.
of a new spring hatl
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fo the brow of man!
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IT 1S BECOMING—you give it your individual
and accounting, classical languages, because of her fine long fingers that{ecohomic theory; education, his- and the number of string instru- { labor, iments found inside her tomb. in- psychology and stenographic| A neighboring mound contained
|the bodies of 28 horses in expen-
DOBBS
NOW'S THE TIME for a man For 1949—the VALUE ~~ |
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executed tattoos depicting wild|
He sald the mummified body was found in the same Pazyrsk mounds in the Altal Mountains where he earlier found the body
sive trappings. of other unique items have been found in the area. Led Soviet scientists believe the coveries are shedding light on the high material culture of the tribes which inhabited the area thouLeopard skins
cating that the tribesmen carried on trade with: distant places.
Woman Stabbed Fatally In Columbus, O., Hotel
COLUMBUS, O. Feb. 19 (UP) -:A woman was stabbed to death in a hotel room here today and
2 bellhop chased her killer three ——
blocks after surprising him as he fied down a fire escape. The victim was identified as’ Esther Seibert Mason, about 30, with no permanent address. The identification was made by her sister, Mrs. Irehe Huffman of Columbus. Ra The victim's body, stabbed 11 times, was found in a blood~ drenched bed by Coleman. Mer. chin, hotel bellhop, four hours after she had registered with
man described as middle-aged.
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