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60th YEAR NUMBER 27

received information indicating! that the owner of the ves-| sel, Donald Parrott, of Man-! chester, Mass., and his wife, had been swept overboard and| drowned during a storm, leaving]

their two sons, Donald Jr., 4, and!” Steven, 10 months, locked in the SA

cabin. Locked Below Decks

‘master named the Keewatin, was! sighted Tuesday apout 75 miles off the South Carolina coast by |

the tanker Richard J. Cleveland.

Coast Guard vessels began a)

search for the schooner Wednes-|

day, but the decision to intensify!‘

the search was only made last hy

night when Hadley Parrott, brothér of the missing man; told the Coast Guard of the couple's habit of locking the children below decks in a storm. He warned searchers who might go aboard the schooner that the baby ordinarily was kept in a small stateroom that could be

Received no Answer When the Cleveland sighted the drifting schooner it was unable to investigate because of prevail-|, ing rough weather. The tanker was unable

Bahamas, Apr. 1, bound for| Charleston, he couple sailed > to the Bahamas November.

"In Scout Camp Drive The 11th District American Legion has “gone over the top” in its drive for funds to build a permanent Boy Scout camping site at the Chief Belzer Reservation, W. Daniel Kibler, chairman of the district Boy Scout committee, anpounced today. Speaking as a guest of the Sahara Grotto Legion Post night, Mr. Kibler said that a total of $5182 had been collected from the 68 Legion posts in the 11th district. The largest singlé contribution, Mr. Kibler said, was a $1000 check from the Indianapolis Power & Light Co. Post.

Put Childhood Energy To Use in Park Cleanup

City parks will stage a cleanup day Wednesday with boys and girls furnishing the. manpower, The drive will start at each community center at 10 a. m. At noon the youngsters will go home| for lunch and return at 1:30. Some parks will hold wiener| roasts after work is completed. Park Department trucks will pick up debris after it has been collected by the boys and girls.

4 This Is What Can Happen fo Yo Civilian on Army Payroll Has Few Rights

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amily free. The latter man,

endurance record. The local Mr. “sake through the newspapers.

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in-genealogy . . . Charlie Goodacre, 738 S. Noble St. foi Sey Charles Googacre, Durrington, . Worthing, Sussex, Engung ecided thay ware distant relatives after 3 study of the Good-

a driver for the British Austin Co.,

EE a Fo Sha hits Ault Con

Goodacre learned of his name-

«arrested: and put

Whether you have an attorney of your choice depends on the decision of Army authorities. You can be

isentenced to life imprisonment

and have no appeal. You can be

m Boston 1ast confined . here in Germany for

your entire sentence or for any part of it, or be sent to a penitentéary in the Upited States.

{If you should flee from Army

authority here and return fo the United States, the Army can send its men: td your house, put you! under arrest, refuse you the right of counsel and bring you back to Germany for trial. In doing; this, the Army does not bother securing extradition papers—it| can just eome and get you. » » n ALL OF thesé things can be done to. any American citizen who works for the Army here, according to the Army's own highest legal authorities in Germany.

been done to a young man named: Russell G. Bird of Mishawaka. | Ind, who is now under armed guard in an Army hospital here. Russell G. Bird was the civi manager of a post exchange Shas! The Army says he used some cigaret ration coupons he should |

tons of cigarets and resell! them.

{a similar offense. Several of these, {men-—all Americans—were severely beaten up by Army criminal investigation agents and com-| pelled to sign °

ficial Army board ol inquiry. ” F ” RUSSELL BIRD fled from!

Cash and Barber Tools Stolen in Candy Store

Germany and returned to the {United States. Three weeks ago ihe was arrested at his home in|

i he conaeted & Se Sy Army,

tary post, whose office will prose-

Nine others were arrested tor|

to Yoy—

at Law

you a Sxime- an) hing “prejudicial

¥. H. Vanderwerker, staff judge ‘advocate of the Frankfurt mili-

cute him before an Army court: martial, - . . SOLDIERS or officers who are court-martialed and given dishonorable discharges have an automatic appeal to the board of review in the Judge Advocate]

thing as an appeal as a matter jof right,” Col. Vanderwerker says. Russell Bird signed a request in my presence that Earl J. Carroll, San Francisco lawyer, act as his counsel. Mr. Carroll may or may hot be permitted to represent Mr. Bird, says Col. Vanderwerker. He concedes that the accused is supposed to be allowed an attorney of his choice. . But the request has to be forwarded to Gen. Lucius Clay, and only if he approves may

General's office in Washington. | | wanted. elvilians* ‘there is no such:

FRIDAY, APRIL 8,

1949

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Indianapolis, Ind. Issued

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Kinship Acros: the SeaG jit Here Reveals Secrt Tax Deal At Courthouse

Rouls Pledges ‘S

Special Drive

On Molesters

Teen-Age Gangs To Be T Of Vice Raiders

"Police Chief Rouls ordered vice squad raiders to be “extra vigilant” in searching for teen- -age gangs of marauding sr SERRE Noting the sharp increase in molestings with the approach of

warm weather, the chief promised police action tonight. He issued orders to Capts.

hours.”

hit the South Side. Early yesterday morning four young members of a Southwest. Side gang, admitted “bothering” three grade school girls.

today!

Harry Yarbrough and Jim Sul-| livan to “break up the bands of kids roving all over town after] © A recent wave of molestings 4

boys, |

Cite Curfew Law Chief Rouls said police would,

city’s 10 p. m. curfew law, Latest molesting reported oc-

by a young married woman, The incident also occurred on the South Side. Earlier this week, several! South Bide parents complained about a “wave of mass molestings.

-in molest Mings, police and JAD authorities | believe stronger enforcement of the curfew law will help curb the problem.

headio Winner Has Houseful of Gifts

Mrs. D. F. Estle, 3751 Rock-

round up all youngsters under the| =~ -. Motors Puna ill Ss... AL edema vid vp nh hr snr a olor ™

By VICTOR

ETERSON : The life of an Indianapolis motorcycle policeman in a series 4 bruises roken

and b bones. Clifford Schuck, 37, of 13 E. ¢ Hospital today

wom ne poe day. They Tae E,

hazards - which sooner or later puts each in the hospital at least ohce during their ansignmant to the cycle squad.

11 years he has been a bike However, it is the first hospitalization. Cruising in downtown traffic yesterday, Patrolman Schuck

ville Rd., may have trouble mak-

have about everything she Mrs. Estle [Manhunt program on WIBC last | Sunday and has called at the! Home Appliances Co., 3360 N. 1li- |. nois St., to arrange for delivery. | She will receive an electric] range, a porcelain sink, an elec-| tric iron, a garbage disposer; two- | plece living room suite, a bed spring, two table lamps, a fivepiece dinette set, an electric blanket, a radio-phonograph, an electric mixer, a toy chest, a vacuum cleaner and a clothes washer.

Mr. Carroll represent Mr. Bird. So far, Attorney Carroll has

Some of thm already have not been allowed to see. his client.

= High Court Studies =: Bird Release Plea

| Appeal Made by California Attorney

WASHINGTON, Apr. 8 (UP)—| {The

have destroyed to buy extra car-|

{Indiana citizen who was extra-| |dited to Germany to face a miliitary court-martial, George T. Davis, San Francisco attorney, protested that his client,

Burglars rifled coin-operated|Indiana by Army authorities and/whom he has never seen, cannot machines and carried off a set of returned here last week under) legally be prosecuted by military|

barber tools valued at $70 in aj break-in at Schaffer Confectionery Store, 826 W. North St, early today. : , The barber equipment had been stored in th: shop by Vernon Banders, 29, of 344 Douglass St.

Read Sunday’

{guard: No extradition papers were; |obtained. He was not tted to see an attorney or appeal to civil {authorities. Now, Russell

at hard labor, according to Col

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Best in Easter Fashions

WOMEN who want to be ‘ection of the Sunday Times.

the best dressed in the Easter

Bird may be {given a sentence of 30 years

to authorities is

because -- he leivilian. . , Mr. Bird was returned to Germany Mar. 31 to face a year-old charge that he ‘traded in the black market while he was a civilian post exchange employee in the U. 8. zone. He was" picked

«= « (and who doesn’t?) . .. will turn to the Woman's 1 >

“And that about takes care of my Christmas list for the next [few years,” she said.

Association Re-elects L. S. Ayres’ Manager

A. L. Masten, divisional merchandise manager, L. 8. Ayres &

ing up her Christmas list this |3 ung year. The redson is that she will], in

won the Musical |.

(preferential streets, double park-

his bike around a car wait-

St. Simultaneously a car began to pass him and forced him to the parked car. “lI didn’t even lose control of! the bike,” Policeman Schuck said. ‘I pulled to a stop, got off, walked {to the curb and sat down, Later I found a bone sticking through ithe. flesh of my leg.” Knows the Dangers . Mr. Schuck is ready to go back to his cycle as soon as his leg mends. But he knows well the dangers he faces, Chief among these are the’ failure of motorists to stop dat

ing, speeding and reckless driving. “Maybe you're affer a speeder and are whipping in and out pe! traffic”. Mr. Schuck sald. “Th siren’s going and the red ght | is on. You think you've got the | right of way. Then bang, some

‘Sooner or Later, It Happens

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Adler St, points up with a compound a

most of the ; oye _ whe orecast ‘deal’

Picnic Weather

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am... 10a m... 47 Tam... 41 Mam... Sam... 46 1% (Noon). 9 Pa m.. 47 1pm... 50

April showers on Sunday may mar outings planned by hundreds of Indianapolis motorists. A Yght frost was expected to night as temperatures dip to a low of 35. The mercury will climb’ to a high of near 62 tomorrow,

IMr. Miller said.

Temperatures are expected to average three to six degrees above normal in the five-day period ending Wednesday. (Normal maximum i= 59 in northern Indiana, 66 in southern Indiana. Normal minimum is 35 north, 42 south). Precipitation in thé period is ted to average one-third to

expec {three-fourths of an inch,

occuring! as showers Sunday or Monday and again Wednesday.

Plan Special Bus t To U's Panifal

Plans for a special bus to ‘Bloomington Sunday for the In-

res Spies Police ‘Bike Jockeys Flirt [Plan Legal Fight With Death on Busy Streets

Patrolman Clifford Schuck in Hospital . With Compound Fracture of leg

For Highway Funds

Counties and Towns | $62 Million

Cite New Legislation The cities, counties and towns

dated by 1949 legislation. The state highway t has received approximately 523% million, leaving $6% million which the municipalities and counties are claiming. Frank Coughlin, deputy state attorney general, representing the state highway department, con. tends the 1949 law had no repealor clause, Should the claims of the cities be upheld, Indianapolis’ share of the fund would be approximately $200,000, which would be spent for street repairs,

Schuffman Estate

joker pulls out of a stop street!diana University . production 0 ri Tax Totals $35,432

Co , has been re-elected president of

th e Indianapolis Floor Cover: happen, %00.

ing Association.

Herbert Knawles of the Carson sp pis bike at Maryland and Bus Terminal at 2 p. m. Sunday, house here, based on a gross valu. Dinding phrase under the name,

Pirie Scott & Co., was re-elected secretarv-treasurer and

McConnell of the Griffith Distrib-|* Supreme Court today studied) ying Co., continues as vice pres-|

‘confessions.” ac-|an appeal for an order directing! ident. cording to the findings of an of-| the release of Russell Bird, thre|

inelude Charles Bernard Doyle, | Roscoe Beeler

of directors {Orme, Gene Haas, { Arthur Simpson, |and Frank Wilson.

‘Our Fair ir City Shows \Inhospitality to. Soldier

An, Army sergeant told police today he was robbed of approxi-| mately $380 while passjng through loyr Fair City en route to his home in North Carolina on furlough. Sgt. George Howard, 37, stationed at Smoky Hill Air Base, Salina, Kas., sald he met another

soldier from the 10th Air Force in

the bus station .last. night. They made the rounds of several taverns, Sgt. Howard told police, and Sua: Mk 8 oun 1s 3 downtown hotel. When he awoke this morning, 4° his money and the Air Force soldier were gone, he said.

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Bandit Souaht

without stopping.” Policeman Schuck has had that It was just nine; {months ago that he was thrown |

“Parsifal” were announced toda

{by ‘Gladys Alwes, iagent for the IU opera. A chartered bus will leave the

¥Y NEW CASTLE, Apr. S—Statel local ticket jnneritance tax on the late Abe

iBchuffman estate has been re-

‘contend that this act was invall-/

$204, 94050 Claim Settled For nn 203. n

County's

Tax Hunter Gets Half By PHILIP ¥. CLIFFORD JR. Suit for payment of a $250

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court was told, Mr. Taylor produced a contract he signed with

which would entitle him to & pers centage of all moneys received

unpaid. Tells of Binding Phrase’ When he made out the check,

{corded as $35432 in the court, MF. Dudley said he wrote in 8

West Sts. when a driver failed to!returning ‘to Indianapolis after ation of the estate of-$807.113.55

top for West St. Five years ago the blind inter-| {section of 14th and Ogden Sts. |

ithe evening session of the four-| {hour opera, Miss Alwes said. Applications for the bus should

The tax, believed to be the)

igreatest ever paid on any estate

|recorded in Henry County, was

{was the scene of his first mishap. be made today or early tomorrow especially high because of the

Members elected to the board, , automobile sent him spinning at

{to the pavement. In his first two accidents he walked away only |= with bruises. “It’s a rough game” he sald.| “We're sitting ducks when we! tangle with a car. It sure would | be nice if the driving public would | give us and themselves half a! break.”

Motor Scooter

In Station Holdup

A GUN-WAVING bandit on a motor scooter was sought by police today as. a suspect in the $350 Holdup of a West Bide filling sta-

_ Harojd Willsey, night attendant of the station at 3521 W. 16th

the Gladys Alwes | Shoppe in the Wilking building.’

estate.

Tail Light Needn't Work In Daytime; Fine Refunded

State Police rrine)

Admit ‘Error’

It wasn't the cost that aroused Clarence Miller, R. R. 1, Bridge port, fined because the tall light of his car wouldn't work. It was the principle involved.

Amusements "23 Labor Sian ET Eddie Ash.. 28 Mrs. Manners 25 Bridge ..... 20 Marriage Business ... 14 Movies 0. Othman ....

avn 9 Comics ..... 35| Radio Crossword . 27/Ruark Editorials ,.

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‘Childs i Classified 31-34| Pattern .... 20.sey told police,

EER, et, Sir Fon fm, Sr Dr. Jordan . 51 Wynn's 20-31 plates, oh fv EL el

{while the bandit rifled the cash

drawer for 3350. : : { . » {

25 veer 23) THE BANDIT then ordered him|fined §10 plus $1 costs.

to enter a shower room, Mr. will-|

when he tested the tail light see if it would burn. : The check-up occurred I 34 In

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when he was arrestéd and «&

Miller explained that it was

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{Robert I. Taylor. : "For ihalf interest in tax accounting 'business.”

{was indorsed by Mr. Taylor and

Music fact that 40 heirs shared in the cashed the same day It was

fi written--Mar. 23, 1948, Up to this time, Mr, Dudley charges in his complaint, neither {the loan nor an accounting of the money collected by Mr. Taylor jas a result of the tax investiga. tion, has been satisfied. . i “In January last year, the rec jords show, Mr. Taylor and Mr. {Dudley began their tax search. Res 1 iports were made to the auditor | Feb. 3 and May 17. : On Nov 3, Auditor Moore tne [formed Sears that taxes ‘were due (on merchandise valued at $6,100.000, which he |

ion County tax claim and threw the spotlight on a mys

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[by the county in taxes be found

The check, investigation shows,