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: hecked .it at closing time. Po- trict head uarters. was picketed! r more than a trace of rain. The gunmen: entered the bage- © q picke Fhe Batory, on which Gerhart Jackson, 26, of 2426 Winthrop Stagnant super-heated: air was Polio Donations tment bedroom of the South Side: lice aid, however, it was in good today by members of the AFL Eisler, Communist leader, fled the Ave. She accused Hagan of tak- Ran Zurough Halls. both . still 78 degrees at midnight. It {tavern at about 4:30 a. m. and rking order when they checked! {Building Trades Council. country as a stowaway, Tertiing al year-old baby from a Car gE TR ary Da aa Times & cooled to only. 74 by dawn today. | Oa i > ia BNpake Bed tyre James . Police said burgiars ‘who’ aps’ The: building is being erected without the seized passeigers. riage and deserting it later. twee Dillon. Mrs. Day Is CRIPPS TO QUIT CLINIC ET — v parently “took their time'by the United Construction 7 per a ang ay ¥ ZURICH, Switzerland, Aug. 9 pags sw raise Jared Rotts yan cleaned out a major portion of Workers. an affiliate - of the, nj ure in anic of, occupied the apartment directly , funds for the fight against in= “Don't holler,” Mr. Johnson! : Tet {beneath Mr. Brishen's rooms. Mr, . (UP)-—British Chancellor of the taptile paralysis will be started sald one man told him while an-. hie stock of ‘the Virginia Ave. UMW. When work started recent- o Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps has here . tomorrow in a voluntary| other boing hifs to the bed. liquor store. It was discovered Iv the AFL put out pickets but Aboard N. Y. Subwan Train {Cantitived on Page 3—Col. 2) made —a-—satisfactory-—reeovery: "move by the student body of In-| The Porter told potice there wis: when. - the owner, Mr. Reith, withdrew them without explana. # i e——— from his stomach ailment and! diana Universit n no light in his room and that he operied the store this morning tion. : . will leave the Birchr-Benner clin-| ye after’ closing at 10 p. m. last Yesterday pickets again ap- Explosion of Fuse Couses Smoke to Drift i Acting on an idea conceived could not deterrnine how many : ! ampus as ions ic here Wednesday, Ris doctors |night. : peared ‘on the ‘site carrying Th h . ’ : said today. 4 jafter an educational tour of Riley men were in the gang. | He found. a rear window banners saying, “This Job Is Un- rovg Cars; Passengers Flee to Platform Cont i ; |Boapital a group of students; He said, however, that he gould broken. Twelve cases of whisky fair to the Vigo County Building NEW YORK, Aug. 9 (UP)--Seven persons were injured today ® Corduroy is- the feaTimes Index au ¢ idea of contributing see a gun in one man's hand by snd 15 cases of wine valued at and Construction Trades Coun- When the main fuse blew out of an express train of the Eighth Ave- tured fabric for campus Lo money spent for soft drinks, cig-|the light of a nearby street lamp. about $400 were missing. lef.” [nue subway, jerking it to a wudden halt in the 424 St. (Times wear, «reports. Louise o ents." 8 National ATL. 12 {A718 and: other luxuries for shel ‘The armed man stood guard, Police said Patricia Lohman, Frank Barnhart, regional di- Square) Station. Fletcher, Times Wom. Eddie Ash...14| Needlework . 7 jay each week. « over the porter while the othersiemployed at the Shuffleboard rector of the UCW, asserted the, The fuse blew out with an. explosion, flash and ‘ smoke. mo- an's Editor, in her repoit B Othman ‘ul omorrow, campus spokesmen went upstairs into the tavern, Court at .343 Virginia Ave. re-AFL council picket line was mentarily panicked the more than 400 passengers. The train was of today's Fashion show Fife. SE +»++odl sald, students will donate alli They took afleast $500 loot from ported she heard a sound. “like blocking deliveries of materials! thrown into darkness. Six per- ——— —— at Block's. Business ....13 Radio ....... 9 money they would have spent for. shelves in the front part of the breaking bottles” at midnight, from local dealers. [sons -were taken to Bt. Claire's Was delayed for 10 minutes when | Comics .....10;Ruark .....:T1 luxuries or non-necessities toward tavern and an unestimated She went fo look at the liquo? - “Our belfef is that the building Hospital. a platform empioyee, believing] SM as Fletcher. give . @rossword ..20 Scherier ....12 the fight against the dread amount from the storeroom. store next door. She told police trades council is out of place in| the train was on fire, pulled a, college studsnts many v Editorials ...12 Side Glances. 2 disease, oe | “A safe was turned upside down she saw no one in the store but trying to tell the United Mine! The passengers sat in silence power switch. The move also was| other hips" for that { “POM eviiiene TiBoOCIOtY iss "sw . but it was not entered. as smoke whiffed through the a precaution against the ‘electro-i ' ' . "best eased” look on , 7 noticed two young men loitering Workers what they can do with tion of oo ys this lk = . :: oreign. Afr1278ports vee 14, 1 COEDS wearing * ‘polio police”! Mr, Johnson told police the in front. : © - their own money, "Mr. ‘Barnhart train, Then several women | Js Ww Of Any Panic-siricisn per- the! Tf Yorum iii Teen Probes armbands wii reprimand any gunmen tert —hint<botnd to the — Tater the hight, ¥he wid said. : “woréamed. mete EO CS hat illum Ts Hollywood .. 8/Try It ......19 student on the campus found bed and that he worked mel she heard someone walking! The contract for the building | The attendants quickly opened wer > thrown, “into “momentary Ee Inside Indpls. 11 Weather Map 13 smoking, drinking soft drinks or free. Around next door. she sald the was given to an Olney, Iii. firm ithe % and let the pas | contusion by the “hurried exit of } Ne rire Movies ...... 8 Earl Wilson, .20 otherwise spending money on Nichola Purdue. night bar- samé men were still out in front when it agreed to use UCW mem- out onto the station platform. | od train 3 2 = : My Dayevsess 6 Women's «+o 7 nonessential things, (tender, said tavern's burglar,at almost 5 4. m. today. + $00r8. Om tha Job. . : Tieng A" 22 1m . . » A ] ; ; a A ; ; : i 3 Vv lm a pe ? , ¥ : v

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| Vaughan ‘Human Torch’ Rescued Columbus Divorcee, As Peeve] < By Woman as Blaze

Then Wounds Self On Track Deal Hits Annex of Hotel

Sp sored’ Lover Shoots

Furniture Dealer, 58, Puts Bullet in Chest; Rips Burning Clothes Off Victim; Second

. 40-Year-Old Victim in Critical . Condition Hunt's Diary Reveals Woman Arouses Occupants of Building

COLUMBUS, Ind.. pv "258 year-old spurned lover General's Friends | Fire at the Saratoga Hotel annex early today in which

learly today shot and critically wounded a 40-year-old di-| Given ‘Brush Off rool omg ols Huma tore to wately bedy |vorcee, mother of five children, and later turned the gun on WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 (UP) gL te VIC Smt NIP Wa es 8

| nimée}f in an unsuccessful suicide attempt | —_Maj. Gen. Harry H: Vaughan. Fire Chief Roscoe McKiney reported after a prelimivary

i or in White House military aide, got investigation. Mrs. Thelma Phillips was believed to be dying in County : : s pital from two bullet Wounds in the abdomen and Aner SA_Sore” because three friends, The chief said the flames, which consumed the interior

| ‘ interested in Tanforan Ra Tothor in the Hight aru; ce Cs sim of the hotel annex at 548

: y Track were given a “brush off” = : Herbert Bennett, prominent Hit Council's L cl by the housing expediter in 1947, Massachitijetis. Ave, started Columbus furniture dealer,’ Senate investigators disclosed to- jn the Apartment of Fag Wile ; “it. _ iam risben, . 31-vear-o Ars Hoaiy wounded hops lees or Of W ss Policy [oT reve ati ion of Gen, tender, who is fighting for his life on : aughan's wrath came from the She lef: shies Which narrowly rage . diary of James V. Hunt. Washington “management counselor” ir Te er Rome ot Mee Fear Dissension Over whose activities led to a Senate ay CaN § subcommittee investigation of the’ ng on the Hist Side of Ane ‘Haphazard Rises capital's “influence industry.” city. Police Capt. Clarence =F By IRVING LEIBOWITZ ‘| One of the three friends. the [buckle _ said Bennett sPparent’y City Council's failure to make ‘diary Shclosed: was John F. Mars {Hook and shot-the attractive di- a general wage policy for city Ih I {vorcee when she refused to admit employees will create dissension House. : (him to her home. in between departments, city of- Excerpts From Diary | Na by sman es vear-old] fcials charged today. The subcommittee made public aon of the victim who called po-| Joseph E. Bright excerpts {fom Mr. Hunt's diary. lice. said Bennett ran from Po Lissued-the- warning following City dealing with _string-pulling here ... > horas after shooting at his moth-] ey mdeling-last-nightiln162.ta gel a huliding hemi, ve Times. The youth said his,On _NextYear's $17-million bud-| Car. the race track at San Bruno, : a get. . Abb) mother and Peunett had "een, Council raced through the pro-| It was'a time of building matei" oi. togethers theorized that Posed budgets of the Mayor, City rial shortages and- work at the in pi to “break Clerk, Legal Department, Plan race track had been stopped by a ~ § Be I a ifuTe alot. Commission, Purchasing Depart- federal: caurt order. The permit (0 Bennett’ was found. two miles/ ment, Works Board, City En- eventually came through, but four i i {from the city beside his automo- 8ineer and Street Commissioner, Persons were jaited—and fined for: - < = a bile. with a 32-caliber pistol be- approving some pay increases violating the injunction.

- 3 trapped in the flames. LE aR Rips Clothing Off . ] Mr. Brisben probably owes his Ife to Miss Phyllis Tibbs. 23; occupant of an adjoining apart. men}. She led him down a back stairway and “ripped burning clothing from his body. Eleven: Others were routed by the fire, Miss Gendva Dillon, 24, who . resided in an® \apartment across the. hall from Miss Tibbs, raced

filed halls® of the second and third floors-awakening other oc.

; ” saving their lives, LAL pid a Seen -Rmpoke mmm 7 & ¥ 5 5 The fire was discovered at 6:05 SS » 3 ¥ a. m. when Mrs. Joe Anderson, » {4 519 N. New Jersey St., saw smoke boiling from second and third floor windows. 2

: d cut The subcommittee heard testi- ~~ * rel bs : : "This is. how | did it." Two-year-old. Richard McDougal, son of Mr. and Wis. Gi A. Me. neath his body. after 3 two: now} an Stung thers " | mony by a housing agency lawyer \ NT \ a a she ed of oe Thersh St., a how he was imprisoned yesterday by the rungs in a foot- Stare By police following the wit a . eeling Saree , that someone in the administra- 3 5 + turned to her back door in time o was liberated w icemen called his frantic mother borrowed a saw from 8 8 apna system of tion, the Demoéiatic National } a Ay to see Miss Tibbs leadi the poli . by : neigh- | An empty beer can, still cold. granting some increases and not Committee, or Congress hurriedly , Ch 's human torch down nF bagk was found nearby. Police said others will only result in bad feel- jined up a meeting in the office wm AY . stairs, She went to assist the {Bennett had been drinking. He ing among the city workers.” Mr. of former Housing - Expediter| : - Hy

cw mtr i a i young woman. in ripping the McGuire Lolls in Court | fy@ rn thot once through the chest. Bright said. ee Fioung Expats SE Yond aman Swing lhe ~— NEA. RAR Nr we _ the bullet barely missing his) Otner artmental heads WhO could be done about the Tanforan. Geneva Dillon . . . Awakened and then called. for a General

_depa le to talk'q ambu heart. He was unable to ‘declined to be identified said they ‘permit. occupants of burning building. ambulance.

“Bennett shot me because T' Republican members of Council The meeting was” attended by| rkghn “84x “on his back and legs was reported aida. 3 ad burned to the bone and the back of his head was badly seared. x : Heroine Tells Story 52 “I was awakened by Paul's screams and heavy pounding on. the wall separating our apart. ments,” Miss Tibbs said. “I heard him scream ‘fire,

- Tavern Owner's Slayer Alternately Playful and wouldn't let him in. Mrs. PHIINDS struck early for economy meas- Mr. Maragon and two others

rived at her| | id ntified ‘as Tanforan's “new Disinterested; Told Psychiatrist Escape Hopes | Prosecutor Promises (527ed 2¢ police arrived a ures. GOP Counclimen Charles P. ldentifed 8% TAnTrete el]

!home. She lost consciousness | Ehlers and Don P. Jameson joined owners.’ ALTERNATING between lolling disinterest and rollicking play-| A : ortly thereafter. | Mr. Bright in demand n over- cated they did not then get what | ~ fulness, 22-year-old Thomas B. McGuire today heard two psychi-| To Smash Equipment Shortly A Phillips told police he a) Sind policy. It NE aN Ov [they wanted. _ &trists shatter his hopes of evading Systdegren murder charges on Continued raids against sus-i,.. gwakened by the shots ahd! The administration forces won| An excerpt dated Oct. 25, 1947. : an insanity plea. pected gambling spots, confisca- his mother's screams. He sald he ipo. first ound when Councilman|and headed “Tanforan racetrack” : . Both Dr, Murray DeArmond and “Dr. Louis T. Need appointed tion and immediate destruction of|;ap into the front hall and found|y - Porter Seidensticker spear-|said Gen. Vaughan, while “talkBp Aen Salt doko Rabh Raph lo sxatune sxamine MeGuire: atter, Jan sauipment. wets. promised. tos {per ying-on the ficor inthe 400% :\ headed : a drive-to lee -a- pro, ink 10 me about. other, subjects.” | {insanity ples, testified the Navy by tor George 8. Dailey. [way between her bedroom ang the posed $1200 increase for the temaried-* € veteran was sane. : | The prosecutor's dictum camelnail. She was bléeding copiously. Mayor's non-existent executive] Your friend gp is ‘a fine sb igh Dr. Néed said he believed Mc- a8 an aftermath to yesterday's| Young Phillips said he did not |, atary The job has been va- guy,’ eanung by his tone, oe {Quire had “full comprehension |surprise mid-day raid by a squadisee Bennett leave the house. cant since Harry Gaspar left being to. committee fies]

‘lof the crime with which he is/of hjs investigators at the High-| Capt. Arbuckie said the elder Mort Cut Heat + |oharged,—the July shooting -ofiland Golf and Country Club, son and another boy, Donald, 12, Mayor Feeney's employ a Yeariyy Maragon.,was accompanied |

2 a 5 +#When I reached his side of the building smoke was streaming from the haliway and I could see fire over his door. Just then there

PALES LAEO. tothe meeting -with-members—ofl..* was a crash and Paul came stum‘Robert. G. Brown in Mr. B | The raiding party, led by Det. [told him Bennett ha been paying . to- 8 - Fd tavern in 2901 Clifton st. ws, |Sgt. Charles Burkett, chief of the attentions to their mother since ‘Propose 50% Out Mr. Creeder's staff by Eugene, bling out. -His clothing and hair ~ vy Ex ali |prosecutor's investigating staff, June. Police belleved the divorcee| The economy-minded Republic- Mori, president of Tanforan and were afire, I helped him to the Mercy pected ; {entered the club's b: lwas trying lo spurn the furniture ans, however, retaliated with a the Garden City Track at Cam-| back steps. TO EMPHASIZE - his state- b's _bar_at_noon “Paul muttered. ‘I have been

To Hit 93 Tomorrow ment, Dr. Need testified that Mc- 3nd found nine new slot ma. dealer's attentions and that he{proposal to ‘cut a majority of den, =: Jorsand Samuel Orlando, . |Giyire told him during one inter. CHines. ~The raiders ripped the Was trying.to force her to see him. the wage increases by 50 per Camden attorney. LOCAL TEMPERATURES | AL0€ nC JM Cures her. achities from their foundations Worked in Factory. cent. They later amended the! Mr. Hunt's memorandum said: Sam. 94 10a m.. 87 | oo ected” ; Ye Ie Wasnt nd carted them off to Mr. Dal-. Mrs. Phillips, police said, had reduction to include only key Gen. Vaughan complained that Tam. 74 11a m,.. 88 |. : n pleading in- garage at the rear of his been divorced for a number of positions in the Legal Dept.. Pur- after he arranged the meeting . sanity because he believed he with Mr. Creedon, “personally by | 8a m.. 7 12 (Noon) 89 would have. “a better ch home, 5303 N. Pennsylvania St. years and resided with her five chase Dept. Assessment’ Bureau h h editor had t al 9a m.. 32 I p.m... 90 k chance to " children in the modest but re- and City Engineer's Dept. phone.” the expediter had turne

all this time trying to awaken you’ as I got him outside. “Al was excitement behind us, 1 could hear Geneva Dillon pounds ing on doors and screaming for people to get up. She went to

escape from Michigan C ity than Machines Smashed his callers over fo a group which! Sp ee ptt Rohr eHrom ". | Vath 'spectable home. She was de- (Clerks, secretaries and typists: every door and pounded. The T“Bhowers by nightfall today wil[[from" an insane asylum: “East might; ~with an — order, scribed-ds-a--‘good- provider’ and helow- $2000 -a- year were granted. rush given these people a Tue) smoke and heat were blinding.”

do little to slow the sizzling sum-| McGuire lotted tna swivit signea- by 8 edway Magistrate mer heat which promises g highchair. Alternately “he ‘rocked ‘the George M. on Mr. ae aE worked in a local factory. ‘full increases. . Hoey Romaine Mum of 93 tomorrow, the weatherman chair playfully as he" listened smashed the machines ina lot' —Lolce Said Bennett, who had, Councilman Seidensticker go FE. Mundt (R. 8 Du), “gald. >4to-. testimony or: disinterestedly in, the rear of the Speedway City been married twice, also had been’ dropped the battle for more funds °° 0." "he subcommittee. _ Similar showers predicted “foriturned his attention to the prog- Hall. a Columbus. resident. for. many for personnel when the Republic- demanded that Gen. Vaughan be late afternoon tomorrow will also Tess of a fly on the ceiling. Mr. Dalley emphatically denied Y®ars. He was described as a an economy attack intensified. He oh have little effect on the heat, he, Several times he turned toward he was “picking” on certain clubs (well known and moderately suc- wrapped up his budget books and '— |a group of friends and relatives, Suspected of carrying on large-|C®5Sful businessman. He is the left the session early.

Miss Dillon said she was awakened by a. call from Miss. JHelén Ford, of Apartment 8 and saw that the building was full of smoke. “I put on a robe and started

called as a witness, “in the remote event that he doesn’t ask to be heard.”

Variable Hoosier weather, how- ‘feigned insanity or. .imbecility”| (next year were <the budget From Deputies that the fire originated from a

ever, will bring. somewhat coolerin their prese Bi | Ti fe pe { y > i Sen’ rand Ta oy roan. their presence, “Both doctors urg ars ie 0 er 0 e “watchdogs” —Carl Dortch of the lJ, °S, “Seizes 16 While being taken from the cigaret in Mr. Brisben's room.

{Chamber of Commerce and Wal- . Marion County Jail to the health! Paul must have been smoking

brought flooded streets and only Police estimated the ‘combined loots from the B.& M Toren, TERRE HAUTE, ‘Aug. 9 (UP) custody were said to have held health ‘center with a group of . temporary relief Coeds fo Enforce 840 8. Meridian St., and a package liquor*store owned by Gus Reith The congtruction site for the Greek passports: One was hand- other prisonérs. * Lis from C olumbus where he has

{¢uffed and forcibly réemoved from Records show he was indicted ~ gis mother is Mrs Eva Brise

But downtown Indianapolis-and at 341 Virginig® Ave., would ex-. y 1 other parts of the city had Nttle Weekly Pin Money ¢ ceed $1000 alarm was not working. when he United Mire Workers Union dis- the vessel. in June on charges filed by Alice pen of Grammar. Ind.

in Veterans” Hospital after being

cupants. Many credited her with

Pollen Count... .1 per ‘oubie yd. {seated in the spectator section. scale gambling. {father of a grown daughter, | Mr. Seidensticker's departure T h } waking people up,” she said, “I eee = (ne time he shook his head and ‘My policy since taking office Sta came after Mr. Bright informred . President Truman has said if went to every door and pounded’ said. The earliest rellef im Pros-|y,veq his arm .to attract ain January” Mr. Dailey said, PIES ON MERCY TRIP Council that all the payroll in-| 1S Perfectly all right with him if lis Tibb fire 20nd screamed until 1 was sure pect for the heat-scorched HoO-|¢ jonas eve then grimaced and Das been one of cracking down CHICAGO, Aug.'9 (UP)—Louls creases amounted to $672,028.15. the subcommittee wants. to call Phyllis Tibbs . . . Led fire evervone Wis dwalke. sier capital is expected to come ined at the man. - . jon gambling or othér law viola- Cohn, 85, prominent Chicfgo un-'He added that the wage hikes his military aide. But he told a victim to safety. Claude Collings, of 1311 E. S1st. Baluay, v a high of 93-1 | "x =» [tions wherever found.” dertaker, collapsed and died of a glone accounted for 11 cents ot news Dufetence he was satisfied TTT Rt.) lessor of the Saratoga Hotel . ’C igh- of 93. 10-\ pf EprPY- Pros | ~ He denied his move yesterday heart attack at the county morgue the tax hike.- sen, Vaughan was in no wa annex and operator of the , morrow afd codling to only 0G Tae who ar Faw J. against the Highland Club had today when he went there to claim Also - present and proposing c0nnected with the capital's five « Prisoner Escapes (on npr , in ‘the tonight. {ohiatrists- asked. Both. if McGuire 2RY particu particular ir sighificance. __'a body. - os cuts in the city’s expenditure for P®' centers.” building; expressed: the. opinion

day night and Friday. State tem-| Dr. Need also testified that the| ” : | {ter Horn. of: the Indiana Tax- center yesterday, Charles Preston and fell asleep,” Mr. Collins. said. _ hg oT gon pe HP oh dctendam told him Ne did not] And Stri Tavern’ S Shelves {payers Association. From Polish Liner Hagan. 26, of 2708 Martindale "He ‘had been known tor take Tow [ogee a aa sum- (think he- would go., to the electric, ‘Both agreed with Mr. Bright| NEW YORK, Aug. 9 (UP)—!Ave., undef indictment for kid- sedatives for sleep. This must Hits High of 92 was aermiied a insanity Plea, Pdekage Liquor Store Also Robbed, {that an over-all - wage policy Immigration authorities, in a naping and assault and battery, have been how it happened.” Hot air from the Southwest mitted it on the jo Fo should be adopted. swift, unexplained move, seized ®¥¢aped from - sheriff's deputies Mr. Collins explained that Mr, bubbled into Indianapolis yester- moment and not a ated. the | Combined Loot Estimated at. $1000 ————— 114 Jastengers of. the Polish liner it was reported today. Brisben had been employed by day artd sent thé mercury soaring. Members of MeGuiro# TAmily...;. (usimen tied a_ tavern porter.to his basement bed while thee AFL Pickets UMW Batory today as She was about to DPULes Lawténce Slater. and/iWm AF ° eT to. a high of 92 by 3 p.m, Heavy big to testify later to- emptind storeroom ‘shelves and burglars hauled, away most of t sail for England and Poland Ceeth Rensie gd Hagan slipped 1X0 pars, y 8 Li . Mm, showers, confined for the most @aY In the hearing stock of a package. Hquor, store in two ea ly mornin South side olanc from the jail hall and put a rear unt . Ne ‘ part to the Irvington area, ————w ——Hiquor thefts toda¥. 8, Construction Job "The .14. who .were taken into door while being taken to the eis 3, Line. t8liy," Mis"pos

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A $ Doctor Ss Call Him Sane {upon reaching the hospital. lagreed with Mr. Bright. then Hospital attaches reported Mr, $ To Be Continued | Gasps Out Explanation i Led by Mr. Bright, the three Attended By Maragon | Brisben's condition critical. Flesh

“Htaried Waking People