Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 September 1949 — Page 3

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CALAIS, —ay Sunday, Sept. 4 (UP)—Fernand Dumoulin today received a long kiss from his pretty, blond wife, Eva, as a re-|

ward for conquerin the Channel, 4 g Hugh ‘The 34-year-old Belgian, who boarded a boat to France to reJoin his wife about five minutes! after completing the gruelling swim, smiled broadly as he took her in his.arms on the Calais dock, ’ Mrs, Dumoul)in, holding a bunch of red gladioli, was so overcome that she could only murmur, “mon C e » i

Mr. Dumoulin, who drank a setting out. on the 22-hour and

his champagne diet during a weehour celebration party at a pear-| by hotel.

‘Water. Was Rough’ The 32-yéar:old resistance hero, |

jury, told newsmen, “The water| was tough from Beginning to| end.” Crew members of the escort ves-

waves were mountainous during | the crossing. Mr. Dumoulin said he never had made a long-distance salt water| swim before his _ channel swim! yesterday. He looked fresh and unaffected by the ordeal which veteran chan-| nel experts agreed was perhaps! the toughest crossing in channel] swimming history. French sailors on the boat which brought Mr. Dumoulin| back from England shook their] heads in admiration and® nturmured- about his - “tremendous! courage,” as they watched the Belgian march off" gailywith his| wife and friends to the celebra-| tion party. Mr, Dumoulin, who reported his progress- to his wife by carrier pigeon, was batteted by eight-foot| | waves during the 19-mile crossing. For seven hours, his manager said, he was seasick. | The giant Belgian insisted on]:

manager and the crew of the ac-! companying boat to give up. They were afraid the trawler would smash him.

Aga Says Robbers | Stripped Family of

homecoming an occasion to than

DUBLIN, Eire, Sept. 3 (UP)— The Aga Khan, who is reputed ‘to have so much money he can’t colint it, sald sadly today that he can almost count the remaining family jewels on the fingers: of fas one hand. “No one can steal. anything from us,” he said in the lobby of] Dublin's Sherbourne Hotel. “There is nothing left to steal.” | The - Aga sald that armed bandits who recently robbed him and his young wife, the “Begum, of $680,000 worth of her jewels “got everything we had.”

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New Chief

BRAZIL, Sept. 3-—-It was nea of George N. Craig, second Hoosie of the American Legion, promised ». leader of the Brazil right on time this morning.

depot by cheering throngs ahd by air today for a four-day visit,

He was accompanied by the

mittee shortly before 10 a. m. Begum, her secretary and his

His voice was still- hoarse from

valet. speaking at countless Legion Services Set Orésmation will follow. ive of Mt The. only four Tsmailis In Ire caucuses in Philadelphia before] gervices for Mrs. ‘Altheo Bren-| Carmel, Ill. He had lived in In-

land were at the airport. to meet 4 election Thursday which made him, and the .Aga beamed: “MY him the first veteran of World .children are everywhere.”

w But he quickly dropped the na nder.

TE EW RS ito Slats Gm... LEE Chal re me tr Sa Bit Ca glamorous. daughter-in-law, Rita - Mayor Archie Hamm, who met in Washington \cago; Walter Platt, Washington, ; Cm \

Hayworth of Hollywood, is ex-

pecting with his parents, Mr,

: Bernard C. Craig, announced the: . key to the city was tucked away Richmond Boy Found for the day. No parking tickets

Hanging in Basement were to be given and the celebra-| RICHMOND, Sept. 3 (UP) — {tions were scheduled to last unti The body of a 14-year-old -boy Midnight. was found hanging in the base-|

ently committed ‘suicide, Craig Wayne county coroner Henry tional Ave. Uns said” Mr.-and Mrs: Bertram: ---Pwo--bands,- four -drum-major-; J, Hintzen found the body- of ettes and the new Legion com-|

“their son, Bertram, when they re- mander were followed by virtually|

turned from a visit to Fortville/ the whole town in the triumphal with their two other sons. {parade down the avenue to, the Young Bertram was a ninth|Clay County courthouse. grade student and an active BoY| ,r4und the courthouse once and | Scout. Coroner Unser, continuing | down to the Clay County Post No. | his investigation, said he had|, American Legion, for the|-

found no reason for the suicide. | speeches, the crowd marched.

Two 4-H Colt Judging | Delivers Talk

Mayor Hamm turned the honors! Trophies Awarded over ‘to Mr. Craig after a few| Troph

jes were presented to a words of introduction on the steps, Frankfort girl and a Cicero youth of the post home, a modern two-| yesterday for victories in 4-H ClubYstory brick building across from colt judging at the Indiana State|the Elks Lodge. Fair. After a short speech in which] . Marilyn Sue Southard, Frank-jhe stressed the duty of every citi-| fort, won permanent possession zen to ‘maintain his rights by of the Charles J. Lynn Percheron | everlasting vigilance Mr. Craig! trophy by virtue of Victories this shosk hands with everybody. year and in 1948 and-1947. Some 40 minutes later, the pubRobert Whisman, .CIicero, Won is. owt or the ceremonies were the first leg of the C. O. House over and he conferred wth home- |

Belgian trophy. Permanent pos- t own and visiting Legion officials| session requires three victories. lin the post home. |

: But the jubilant town continued 12 German Girls Drown |its celebration. Firecrackers punc-

[tuated the din and fresh cut CUMMERSBACK, Germany, {flowers decked the steps of the| Sept. 3 (UP)—Twelve German Post home. y,

schoolgirls were drowned today in a steep-sided, 100-foot-deep! Justice RoTcios Gains | fot a steel mill. Slightly, Say Doctors Sixteen girls, aged 4 to 12, at-| pool. There were” ho warning 5 Preme Court Justice yy 3 signs to tell them of the sharp Rutledge, unconscious and gravely, girls decided to go wading. made a slight gain today in his| A teacher who was supervising battle for life. all holding hands as they entered ported tonight that his condition the pool. However, when wo remained, the same as this mornpanicky and| “Justice Rutledge is still in a plunged in after them. The teach-/coma but his Several condition is

pool once used as a cooling basin| YORK, Me. Sept. 3 (UP) tended a school picnic beside the) drop in the pool's sides, and the|ill with a cardiac condition, the picnic said that the girls were| York hospital authorities re-| girls slipped into deep water, the/ing when a bulletin said:

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"Welcome Home" and "Victory" banners de cked the streets of Brazil yesterday in honor of the homecoming of George N. Craig, newly elected national commander of the American Legion. The mayor threw the key to city away and no parking tickets were given during -the ceremonies.

The Brazil Legion post helped Mrs. Ada Diffenderfer to get a telephone for herself and her bedfast husband. She made the

the welcoming committee, and Mr. Craig for He Legion's action,

Craig Given Big Welcome

Mayor Throws Away Keys to the City And Stops Tickets for Overparking

By GALVY GORDON,

thronged the streets of Brazil as homecoming ceremonies in hon

The 40-year-old Republican lawyer returned to his hometown of Platt, retired Pennsylvania Rail-

members of the welcoming com- Mrs .

neman, 2053 Roosevelt Ave. who | dianapolis for 45 years. ar 1I to become Legion com-. died Friday at her home, will be at 1:30 p. m. Tuesday in Moore

Mr. Craig at the depot along Park.

Y'Elida, 0. Mrs. Brenneman lived here for ™ 25 |years. been Visiting dignitaries from Legion months. She was ment of his home here tonight’ posts “out of town and towns- a member and authorities said he appar- people followed the car of Mr. United Brethren down banner-decked Na+ Church of Elida.

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300 Troopers Alert to Halt Robeson Riot

Plane to Hover Over Golf Course To. Spot Trouble . |

PEEKSKILL, N. Y. Sept. 3 (UP)—Three hundred state troop-| ers moved into this area today under. orders from Gov. Thomas E. Dewey to prevent rioting be-| {tween “pro-Communist” supportlers of Negro singer Paul Robeson {and hundreds of war veterans {planning to demonstrate y iy (him. | Tension was mounting over the |concert Mr, Robeson is scheduled to give tomorrow afternoon, and ry a veterans counter-demonstration. 1 Gov. Dewey ordered “all available” state police to the scene, In New York, a federal judge refused to issue an injuction to prevent the veterans from massing in a “miles long” parade along a highway leading to the [golf course where Mr. Robeson will sing. The veterans have planned a southward march along the same highway on which Mr. {Robeson supporters will be drivling north to get to the concert. Police Ald Police WN a helicopter would hover over the golf course tomorrow to relay feports of -any violence. A force of 30 county sheriff's deputies and 50 special pulse: of the county park will the state troopers, the first I of which were stationed at nearby Camp Smith, The “Westchester County Law and Order Committee,” which fs {sponsoring the concert, said the time and method of the Negro

Rites Tuesday For F. B. Stickney:

Dies While at Desk Of Firm He Founded |

Frank B. Stickney, president of | the Shelby Paint & Enamel Co.

Inc., 739 Virginia Ave.,, who died p yesterday at his desk in the firm Daritones arrival would be kept

which he founded in 1936, will be Secret. but they add they-expected buried in Washington Park fol- Police co-operation in getting Mr. lowing services at 3 p. m. Tuesday [Robeson -in and out of tiie area. in Flanner & Buchanan Mortuary.| Committee spokesmen said last A native of Carthage, O., Mr. week's riot at a scheduled RobeStickney had lived in Indianapo-|son concert near here was an atlis 35 years. He was a member tempt “to lynch Mr, Robeson , . . of the Garfield Park Baptist|we do not want to give the hoodChurch, Logan Masonic Lodge, jums a chance to get at him -{8cottishi Rite and Murat Shrine again as well as the Co-operative Club. and the Indiana Manufacturers’ Association.. He was 56. For the past several years he had made his home on Tansel Road, Clermont, Ind. Surviving besides his wife, Ruth E., are two daughters, Mrs. O. R. Ruff, Clermont, and Mrs. L. E. Barton, Englewood, Cal.; two sisters, Mrs. Grace Couch, Montello, 'Wis., and Mrs. R. M. Rhiver, Indianapolis, and two grandsons.

Mrs. Donald: Addicott

Services for Mrs. Mary Belle Addicott, a private secretary for the State Life Insurance Co. here 17 years, will be held in Flanner & Buchanan mortuary. Time of service and burial will be announced later. Mrs. Addicott,

Blame Robeson Bloe Veterans’ spokesmen, however,

veterans organization. The “veterans were stepping up a campaign to bring veterans from five states to swell the ranks of their parade. Many Peekskill families offered to put up out-of-town veterans in their homes over night. Automobiles drove through town today carrying signs which read “Wake Up America, Peekskill did.” Gov. Dewey branded -the concert “a pro-Communist meeting”

lived inl,.¢ said that the right of an as-

who

k Harold Neese, co-chairman of

Theater and a member of the Third .Christian Church, she had been. an... Indianapolis. resident since 1920. She was a native of Taylorsville, - Bartholomew reported 29 new cases of polio in

N. Y. REPORTS ON POLIO NEW YORK, Sept. 3 (UP)

of the Legion

said the Robeson supporters them-| selves provoked last -Saturday’s| riot, and any veterans who took|§ part in it did so as individuals| rather than as members of any|}

The city health department today

Briton To Take |For Biblical Ship On Ararat

Not Discouraged by Futile Smith Expedition;

s to Look for Atlantis First’

To Sept.:3 (UP)-—British Explorer Egerton Sykes sald today he will seek the lost continent Atlantis before he looks for

. Plan

| Noah's Ark. He said he will lead Dr. Sykes said the failure of § C., to find any trace of the ark

“It is too late in the year; the snows on Ararat are coming “I know,|

Idown,” Dr. Sykes said. because I have climbed it before, Smith did not give himself time to search properly for clues.” The Smith expeditioh was prompied by the report of a shep-| herd,™ g an unusually hot ih “he had seen what looked like the prow of a ship protruding from a glacier. Dr. Smith's party still is exploring

rarat. Dr. Sykes, whose request to climb Ararat was refused, said, “I intend to have another shot next year when I hope my expedition will not be delayed for want of the Turkish government's permission.” Will Hunt Atlantis First But, he added, “I shall lead an expedition to the Azores to investigate Atlantis next summer before we make the venture to Ararat” Dr. Sykes sald Swedish Prof. Hans Petterson had indi. cated that the continent of Atlantis existed when he addressed the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Newcastle yesterday. -. “Minerals. in the cores raised, from the Atlantic océan bed leave! little doubt that portions of the mid-Atlantic ridge once protruded above the ocean,” Dr. Sykes said. “The date at which they did so has yet to be estimated and for the present we must be content with Pettersen's statement that it

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Search Health et Sees 2 Killers Facing Defeat

both expeditions next summer, Dr, Aaron Smith of Greensboro,

on Mt, Ararat did not worry him. Expects Conquest Of Cancer and Find Gaming Booty, Heart “Ailments

WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 (UP) U. 8. Surgeon General Leonard A. Scheele said today this genera~ tion may conquer the great killers —cancer and.. chronic heart diseases, The next 30 years, the Burguam General declared, are certain to bring “great advances” in the nation's battle against these diseases, which annually take a heavy toll of American lives. Dr. Scheele made’ his prediction in diséussing a new medical research center and hospital being built on Washington's outskirts by the Public Health Service. Admission. Center ‘ “The conquest many types of cancer, circulatory and mental disease may come within our own “+ Heettme* Dr. Scheele declared... The $40 million medical center will be the focal point in the fight against chronic diseases, hesald, adding that “we have now reached the stage in study of these diseases that medicine had ,

In ‘Sleeping Room’

A police gaming raid at an East Side “sleeping room" yesterday nefted a nickel slot machine and assorted poker equipment, but no arrests. On a tip, police went to the rear of 2806 Brookside Ave. in! search of gambling. They peered] through the open door and found the place empty. They configéated the slot machine, a round poker * table; six chairs, three decks of cards and

Kenneth Good, owner of the nearby Brookside Tavern, 2802 Brookside Ave., told police he had leased the room and had sublet it to a man named “Joe” to be used as a “sleeping room.”

will 10th AF Go To Rapid City?

Maj, Gen: Paul ‘L. Williams, commanding general of the 10th

a A reached in the study of infectious

the probability of a move of his Siscales at the turn of the cen= re eb Indianapolis “The clinical cénter at Bethesda, “There is a chance the head- Md: wid Souiine a Rosplarand quarters’ may go to Rapla City,” RS ar but, ne Toseare a said Gen. Williams, “but it is no|'*™®

greater than the possibility they Cares for 500

was in the fairly recent past, geologically speaking,” Dr. Sykes sald. : Dr. Sykes said a steay of the| Mediterranean shorelines might yield the date the Atlantis continent sank, although not why,

Nick Greenbaun Appointed by Reo

N. P. (Nick) Greenbaun, formerly a truck and fleet manager in: the Indianapolis ‘district of| : Ford Motor Co., has been appointed district

Indiang -other

Mr.

in -the sales and service depart-

trucking industry since 1925.

Butler Sets Freshman

1 ., di - ya fy * . hadnt, Tioamtar fie semblage: ‘must be respected Convocation Monday was 45 : “however hateful” the political] Batler rsity’s . fres An active supporter of the Civic|Vi¢W® Of its members. convocatl Be held 'M

Sept. 12; in the Fieldhouse, Dr.

day.

{County. the last 24 hours, bringing the {Surviving “are - her “husband, |season’ s total to 1580. Two deaths 'Donald K. Addicott; her mother, brought the year's fatalities to

Times Staff Writer Mrs. Anna L. Dyson, Indianapolis, 137.

students are expected to attend. Freshman week will be held Sept. (12 to 18 for the 1949 enrollment.

| + representative of and Midwestern. states for Reo Motors, Inc.

baun ‘was a/day truck and bus specialist for the Greenbaun Socony Vacuum Oil Co.. He was

ment of General Motors Corp. He had been associated with the

Harry E. Crull, director of the University College in which new students will be enrolled; sald to-

Approximately 1200 beginning

will be moved to any other air| The 14.story building will be

base in the 13 Midwestern states gesigned to care for 500 patients. in the 10th. Air Force jurisdiction:|1t will have the latest of Gen. Williams said he didn’ t research: equipment. know where the headquarters, This equipment will include a

would be moved or when, The - Defense Department recently announced that the head{quarters would be shifted from Benjamin Harrison Air Base here

radiation laboratory for use of . atomic energy in treatment, diagnosis and study of diseases. Patients will be admitted to the hospital on a selected basis, Dr. to some other rir base in the gcheele said. Thus, the research [Midwest before Dec. 1. The head-|department always will have on quarters was moved here from hand a certain number suffe Nebraska only last Oct. 1. 'from each type of ‘ailment. being +studied. _They will afford medical men an opportuniiy to combine ‘|actual treatment. with thorough research analysis.

Community Fund Fills Division Post

J. Perry Meek, Indianapolis life

Typhoon Nears. Iwo ~Way to Japan

TOKYO, Sunday, Sept. 4. (UP) ~The tiny ‘American outpost of Iwo Jima began to feel the first high winds of typhoon “Lise” today as the air force warning network reported its full

Before he Sores itt Wari gusts of|insurance executive, today was ‘ joined the Ford 112 miles an hour—wil Stiins tela ppointed Jom Mr. Green-|island late tonight or early Mon- associate

man of t hs Marion Coun Communit Fund's ind division. Long active

The typhoon was roaring northeast out of the breeding grounds to the south at about 12 miles per hour, threatening to plow through the Bonin Island chain and strike Japan “in three ‘or four days” it it does not disippate; its strength.

Eisenhower Expresses- ~~ Optimism About Peace |hi second ver" apy, Meek 8T: LOUIS, Sept. 3 (UP)—Gen.| airman of the division. : Dwight D. Eisenhower sald today | pis service this year will mark {he feels “more optimise about |y:e 20th year in -Indiana cemwinning the peace than at any ties - time ip the past two years.” munity fund astivities. a Gen. Eisenhower, here for a re-| JAP VOLCANO ERUPTS lh union with his four brothers afid| “TOKYO, “Sept. 3 (UP)~—Mt.to address the American Bar As-| Asama, an active volcana 100 3s adres said the world has been | miles northwest of Tokyo, erupted ‘encouraged” by recent events and | early today, spouting a stream of is not “depending so much on smoke and ashes. There were ng force” to reach agreements. ‘reports @f casualtfes.

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rly midnight-and thousands sill

r to become national keine Oscar A. Platt to last into the early hours. Private services for> Oscar. A.

He was met. at the _Pehnsylvania

road flagman who died yesterday . - {in his home, 108 E. 13th St., will :

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Brenneman

[be held at 3 p. m. tomorrow in Flanner & Buchanan mortuary.

Surviving are his wife, ‘Mrs. Bon Johnson Platt; a sister, Mrs.

{Ind., and Cc: Wiliam Platt, Can"ton, O.

or R Tong Sails for China - 7 With British Road Map

She had L - .-{ CARDIFF, Wales, Sept. 3 (UP) 111 two - |—Tong Full, a Cantonese laun-

gi tdryman- who set. sail. for China - * {in an 18-foot boat with a British. Mrs. Brenneman ro3q map and a page from an Surviving are her husband, atlas to steer by, was assured of Merlin. ..O... Brenneman; three safer transportation today. daughters, Mrs. Mary James, Mrs.| -v British judge “¥écommended | Thelma Beeler ‘and Mrs. Leona him for deportation after senich, all of Indianapolis? her|tencing Him to two months in jail {mothér, Mrs. Dorothy Mack, for embarking without permis- . |Lima, O:; a sister, Mrs. Ida Heath, sion. D , « |Glendale, Cal.; a brother, Ernest! Tong got 14 miles down the Reedy, Lima, 0. and four grand- Bristol Channel yesterday before children’ he ran aground.

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