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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1849
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Burglar Shot - Fleeing From Police Trap
Caught as He Loots Grocery; $500 Taken In Other Robberies
Caught in the act of robbing a grocery early today, a burglar was shot three times by police at the climax of a series of holdups, burglaries and robberies. Bandits and sneak thieves netted In excess of $500 cash and aquantityof jewelry over the week-end. Fred Earl Kes26, of 149
shot in the neck, leg..and back as he fled from p the Oak-Park : Grocery, 3360 = W. Minnesota 8t., shortly after midnight. At General Hospital he. admitted breaking into the store. Patrolmen Melvin Osborne and Joseph Bronner, investigating. a broken ‘rear window in the store, observed Kesler ransacking a desk in the office. When he saw officers entering the window he had broken he fled through a rear door.
Kesler
Both Officers Shoot Patrolman Osborne shot twice
-as the burglar ran through the
door and Patrolman Bronner shot once as he ran into a field behind the store. “Don’t shoot, don’t shoot, I give up,” police quoted Kesler as shouting as he fell to the ground. At General Hospital his. conditiont was reported as serious. The shot in the neck ranged downward. The other two wounds were not considered serious. Harvey H. Everling, of 1514 Salcey St., manager of the store, said an undetermined amount of change had been taken from the register. Police found $3.30 I change in Kesler's possession. sion. * Thomas P. McGrath, of Knox, Ind., told police two men strongarmed him at Illinois and Georgla Sts, early yesterday and took his wallet and $4.15 after slugging him, Two guests of the Lincoln Hotel, H. J. White, of Springfield, Ill, and Leo Pfeffer, of Seymour, Ill, told police their room was ransacked while they slept early yesterday and $460 taken from their wallets. 3 The Indianapolis visitors, here for the Indiana State Fair, said
they discovered the thefts when| A they were awakened early Sun-|in the livestock buildings and his day morning. They found their Wife displayed at least a passive]
trousers disarranged and their money gone. Harold Toliver, 25, of 2207 Sheldon St, was booked vagrancy early today after Gil-
bert B. Riley of 835 College Ave, skinny boy insisted. 1 held- him at shotggn point while Pigs ain't’ nothin’ w# ain’t got at
police were summoned. Mr. Riley told police he saw
Toliver prowling around his home/excited feminine voice chirped as and attempting to open the front sister joined in. door. He got his shotgun, went | time to go home and we haven't around. the house and surprised been to the Midway yet. I want Toliver on the porch. : |to ride all the rides, all of them.”|
Screams Rout Burglar More than $50 in cash and sev-
|baas and bawling.
for|Building.
Fair Expects 2d Record Gate For Labor Day
Grand Circuit Harness Races Starf— And Prices of Hot Dogs Go UP
Another record-breaking attendance was expected at the Indiana State Fair today as officials prepared for the big Labor Day crowd. A peak crowd of 88,537 paid admissions set a new Sunday record in the 93-year history of the big Hoosier expo-| sition, In addition to the paid admissions an estimated
12,000 war veterans were guests] . » = of the Fair Sunday. Activities on the Fair Grounds reached a peak today with the start of the Grand Circuit harness races. - The five-day meet was Indiana Lions All-State Band, scheduled to start at 2:30" p.m“ “concerts on grounds: Second of the five: big horse Indiana State Fair Follies, shows was slated for 8:30 p. m.| grandstand, 9:15 p. m. as a feature in the Coliseum. L. 8. Ayres & Co. style show, Hiked a Nickel Women's Building, 11:30 a. m,,
3 :30 p. m. Prices of hot dogs and other 315) and 1p Coliseum, 8:30 items featured at the many con- m. cessions on the grounds will be Judging all day in livestock hiked a nickel today by permis-| pyujidings. sion of Fair officials. Officials al- ’ lowed the price hike with the Tomorrow close of the three youth activity Governor's and Legislators’ days. | ’ Concessionnaires had com-| plained that prevailing prices fur-| ing the first days of the Fair had not allowed them a fair profit. The big midway, all conces-
Grand Circuit harness raecing, grandstand, 2:30 p. m. (DST).
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Day. Indiana All-State Band, concerts op grounds. > Indianapolis Military Band, grandstand, 1 p. m. * Grand Circuit Racing, grand-
the gates swung open this morn-| ing. Huge out-of-town crowds! were expected to converge on the) Fairgrounds because of the holi-| day.
L. 8. Ayres & Co. style show, Woman's building, 10 a. m, Zp mand 8 p. m. Judging In livestock buildings all day. ‘
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Under-the.Thumb View of Fair— 1 Grandma Nixes 'Risk-Kay" As Too Risky for Grandpa
He Also Hankers for More Looks at the Hogs, ‘But Grandson Puts Kibosh on That, Too
TNE Winners, Page IT MARY, 3% P ilies, Fronds eat, Bruceville .late Saturday arnees I uced, Lage 5 | stand, 8 p. m. Early yesterday, Richard D. sionnaires and officials of ‘the Wayne King's Orchestra, Scales, 38, of Park Ridge, Ill, and major attractions prepared 10, Horse Show, Coliseum, 8:30 (Mrs, Juliet C. Kent, 70, of Swarththe biggest day of the year as! p. m. more, Pa., were killed when their
| By CLIFFORD THURMAN ! What did you like best at the Indiana State Fair? : i | == pid you ever watch and listen to people taking in the annual |exposition? , Fa 1a This is a factual account of one family. Probably not a family, (either, it was more like grandfather, grandmother and two early, {teen-agers. They were followed, literally haunted, stalked and] iwatched. They don’t know it but| |
{those four persons hardly had aj private moment at the fair. Grandpa was keenly interested
Those - explosions you - have
these nights come from State Fairgrounds, where fireworks are being shot off to entertain crowds. Residents of northeast Indianapolis have been calling po. lice about them. The explosions are unusually loud this year. Better fireworks, commented Fair personnel. ’ 3 Bigger. nuisance, commented | residents whose sleep has.been disturbed by the explosions. {
interest in the -assorted grunts,| It was hard to get Grandpa ut of the Swine |
“Come on, come on,” a freckled, “These here]
home. We are wastin’ time.”
“That's right, Granddad,” an
“Ill soon ye them to the Midway and they've
got their hearts set on it.. Maybe, |we won't have to stay long.” By this time the noisy loud-
GRANDFATHER sighed, took midway were close at hand. The
Mrs. Esther Williams, 124 W. 13th |hibit and headed for the door. concession and rammed his hand
St. and two roomers in her house while they slept Sunday night, according to a palice report. Police said Mrs. Williams. told them she was awakened by a man standing by her bedside. He fled as she screamed and she
He was a tall man; over six feet into his pocket. . re and ‘his wife was a bit on the] “Gimme a pink one,” he ordered. | plump side. She clung to his arm| “Now, Joey,” Grandmother al-| and was puffing visibly as she most screamed, “that stuff will tried to keep up to his pace. The make you sick. You KNOW you! children danced. along about six shouldn't eat it.”
feet ahead, looking back. “It is 100 per cent pure, madam,’
been hearing about 11 p. m. | the |
Truman Assails ‘Scares’ Used Against ‘Fair Deal’
Traffic Deaths At 10 in State; 253 Over U. S.
5 Lose Lives At. Terre Haute _And Ft. Wayne
=The-biggest—highway-—easualty toll for any week-end was being amassed today as scattered reports early during the Labor Day holiday indicated the nation’s death toll at 253 and the state's at 10. Deaths in the nation of alll types of accidents reached 323 since Friday evening. In addition to five killed in two crashes at Terre Haute and Ft. Wayne early Saturday night, five more died in traffic accidents late Baturday and yesterday. * Asa M. Biddle, 58, of Vincennes, was fatally Injured on a bicycle when he was hit by truck
car crashed head-on into a truck in U. 8. 6 near Walkerton. Train Hits Truck . Edward White, 45 eof Ft Wayne, was killed when the automobile in which he was riding collided with a speeding bus in La Porte County early yesterday. Edna Mae Harris, 35, of Troy, was killed when hér car ran off Ind. 70 in Spencer County and hit a bridge abutment near Newtonville. State: police were investigating| the two crashes which took five
N.Y.Detains 11 Hurricane Moves In Robeson Riot .
i - . PEEKSKILL, N. Y. Sept. 5 Toward Maine (UP)—Authorities charged 11 lo-|
{cat residents today with taking!
ipart in an anti-Communist dem-| Progress Slow,
onstration against singer Paul nares a? Homme sche moms engl MIAMI Fla. Sept. 5 (UP) I bottles. ’ The season's third full-fledged Those arrested were released in hurricane, with winds up to 95 {bail ranging from $35 to $500 on miles per hour, whirled over the
{charges from -disorderly conduct|/ Atlantic far to the east of here more than a week ago when the
to turning over cars. ’ ; . The demonstration occurred yes- Xoday, WOVE oo naMAWaN terday despite efforts of 800 local toward the New England coast. and state police who tried to hold| If- the big blow should hold back crowds who lined highways its present course, it would pass and stoned cars and busses when|.aqst of Boston. narrowly -missin 15,000 Robeson supporters left aloe Cod & strike oa aE concert given by the Negro bari- ape 0 Nanas tone. {land on the coast of Maine. Eight cars of Robeson admirers
| speakers and brassy music of the were overturned by the demon- forward at a very slow rate, and School age children caused by a|
strators,
{that slow-moving storms
ican: Legion uniforms.
many of whom were Cw rising birth rate, administrators eral watches were stolen from a long last look over the hog ex-ihoy paused before a cotton candy dressed in Army, Navy and Amer-| co her bureau. experts warned
School (Sigh) Starts Tomorrow
Numbers, letters and an attractive school teacher await pupils at School 15, 2302 E. Michigan (Continued on. Page 3—Col. 6) St Mrs. Lois Shackelford prepares the blackboard for opening day.
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55,000 Children Now Evaluate ee The Job of Getting an Education
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| {mixed emotions today,
Others are giving studied consideration to exactly what NOT to do during the ensuing: niné months,
Staff personnel started work
{first meeting was held for princi-| {pals in Tech's Stuart Hall. Ad-| vance enrollment of kindergarten [¢hildren and beginning -etemen=+ {tary grade pupils was held last | Tuesday. . { ~ Race Plan Set | Although the nation .is in the|
Indianapolis school children—some 55,000
| Some have spent anxious and sleepless nights mentally re- " hearsing correct things to do tomorrow with the familiar ringing of the electric bells in the halls of 82 elementary schools and five May Change Course high schools. :
Hope to Upset
Jet Speed Marks
F-86 Pilots Hope To Exceed 600 MPH
CLEVELAND, O., Sept. 5 (UP) ~—Air Force F-86 jet pilots hoped today to shove the Thompson Trophy race record well above
But the hurricane was moving Midst of an influx of elementary 600 miles an hour for the first
time in history of the National Afr Races. Some of the nation’s hottest
are here expect the enrollment figures racing pilots guaranteed at the
The injuries ranged from frac- Cc . apt to change course sud- to approximate those of last year. same time ‘to drive the record
denly.
tured skulls, to severed. fingers, They emphasized that the hur-
cuts and bruises. More than a dozen persons were | treated at the scene, 30 were treated at Peekskill’ hospital, 15 in nearby Mohegan Lake and 26
tion that it would hit the mainland.
[" For the first time “the public|
nate racial segregation in the| classrooms. The long range pro-|
| gram,-set up under the state non-| 10067400 miles . an hour in the in the /°Wn income;
freshman |
found her wrist watch had been| “I think it’s a lot of foolish-|the candy man protested. ‘Won't at hospitals in New York City. | DIAPER SERV " segregation laws, first calls for taken from her arm and $6 miss-/ness,” Grandmother protested. hurt anybody.” 3 Eight of those injured were] “R SERVICE ROBBED ". eliminatign of segregation in being. from her purse on a dresser.| “There's nothing down there fit| * 8» = {aboard a bus returning from a! Safe crackers who entered by|ginning classes and Two roomers, “sleeping in ato see and thosé contraptions| JOEY got the cotton candy and visit to the Franklin D. Ropsevelt| a rear window 15 feet above the classes in the high schools. *
living - room, reported watches and $43 in cash missing. Three suspects were arrested as police investigated a liquor store burglary at 143 W. New York St. A quantity of case beer and whisky was found in a house occupied by the suspects. Two. others were being questioned in connection with an attempted safe robbery at the Borden Milk*Co., 12 S8t-and Sherman Drive, . Police were questioning two employees, who claimed to have been tied up by two masked men
late Sunday night. 1000 Die
In Chinese Fire
CANTON, China, Sept. § (UP) — A tragic, 18-hour fire swept through central Chungking over the weekend, killing at least 1000 people and leaving 100,000 homeless, the Nationalist Central News Agency reported today. The agency dispatch said that. the flames destroyed or seriously damaged more than 10,000 buildings in the wartime Chinese" capital, which had been slated to serve again as the Nationalists' chief city.
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aren't safe. It's just a waste of|sister decided upon ‘icé‘'cream in-|shrine at Hyde Park, N. Y, and ground looted the safe of the!
In “most instances, elementary!
The Allison ‘Trophy alr race
ricane was still too far out at Schools will have in’ operation a| from Weir Cook Airport to |sea to warrant a definite predic- plan which will eventually elimi-| Cleveland, postponed yesterday
because of rain, was scheduled for 1 p. m. today.
civilian division of the Thompson which carries a $40,000 purse. Crowds far surpassing yesterday’s 58,700 wer expected to witness the double-barreled Labor
were hurt when demonstrators) Diaper Service, Inc., 815 Dormén grade children will be reporting Day spectacle—75 laps of a 15-
! — {mistoook the bus for one of those St., sone time last night of an| soled,. “we told them we'd take | (Continued on Page 3—Col. 7)| chartered by the concert goers.
undetermined” amount of cash.
their homes. High school fresh-| men generally will be attending| the school which best serves their men were assigned to spring semester. Additional Classrooms Although several buildings will start the new semester with ad-
ing the summer vacation, new housing projects mushrooming in Indianapolis have placed new building problems before school commissioners. Board are Windsor Village, 224 St. and Arlington Ave, and the area north of 16th St. and west| of White River, where new build-| ings soon willbe needed. ; Where rooms were available in| school buildings, kindergartens| formerly operated by the Indianapolis Free Kindergarten Society | have been transferred. Some |
shifts to accommodate the heavy enrollment expected. | Half-Day Sessions Half-day sessions will be held, in “elementary schools tomorrow. Full day classes will start Wednesday for pupils previously enrolled, but beginners will attend half-/ days all week. . f High school pupils, except 9Bs, |
and new enrollees, will report at|
8:15 a. m. tomorrow. The 9Bs and| pupils new to local high schools will report at 1:30 p. m. - There will be no change from last semester in elementary school time schedules. Morning sessions| will start at 8:15 a. m. and will dismiss at noon. Afternoon classes!
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kindergartens will operate doublegthe 4th Fighter G
tomorrow to thé schools nearest|,... course featuring: in the Jet
division the worlds’ fastest com{bat airplane, the F-86 Sabre, and {inthe -civilian- division some rad|ically . modified World War II
Time of Races The military race will be flagged off at 2:35 p. m., Indianapolis time, the civilian at 3:40
. m, A third thriller was the scheduled race of .three Navy Banshee [jet fighters from a standing start to a 30,000-foot altitude. The (Banshee was said to be able to climb above 40,000 feet in about eight minutes. Four F-86 pilots will compete over the Thompson. course and 10 civilian pilots will contest’ in the piston-engine division. Two of the jet. pilots, Lt. Burt Cashin, Palo Alto, Cal., and Capt. Vernon J. Henderson, Fresno, Cal., topped 600 mph in a Friday warmup for the race. ) THeir opponents will come from roup, Langley Air Force Base, Va. The present Jet division ercord is 515.853 mph set by Maj. - Gus Lundquist in 1946 in an F-80 Shooting Star.
More Showers Predicted Today
Pollen count..284 per cuble yd. The long Labor Day week-end was becoming a “wet” week-end as the weatherman predicted additional showers today in Indianapolis.. ; Showers Saturday and yesterday brought the week-end rain-
fall total to .78 inch in downtown :
Indianapolis,
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Speech Opens. "30 Campaign For Congress
Charges ‘Agitators ‘ Make Fat Livings To Frighten People’ By MERRIMAN SMITH PIT) 3H, Sept. B— President Truman tripped the trigger today on the 1950 Congressional election came paign with a ringing defense of the Democratic 81st Con-
Ligress and a new attack against
what he called “the organized conspiracy of the selfish inters ests.” In a style similar to his success. “Give-Em-Hell”" came paign, the President lashed out against “scare words” put out by “a lot of paid agitators, promot~ ers and publicity experts who make a fat living by frightening the people in the higher income forward-looking legislation.”
Despite this opposition from interests,” ‘Mr. Truman
program. He promised also to fight until
[the Taft-Hartley law is wiped off
the statute books. " Hauls Out Scare Words Mr. Truman -flew here -this morning to address the Allegheny County Free Fair. Later today, he will address an Amvet rally at the Iowa State Fair, Des Moines, > To the industrial workers gathered here, the President said the scare words being tossed about by ‘opponents of his program include “collectivism,” ‘ “statism,” and “the welfare state.” ‘Then, as he took up each separately, he almost chanted to each charge: “We don't care w they call it.”" : ’ He told them .that some people are trying to “make you believe that the 81st Congress has been a do-nothing Congress.” is simply not true, he said. The Sist Congress “reversed the backward trend” of the Republican 80th Congress. When the “selfish interests” were defeated in the last elec tions, h “retired to a back room with their high-priced advertising experts and thought things over.” ‘We Don’t Care” Then, he said, they came up with new “scare words”—*“collectivism,” “statism,” and “the welfare state”—to confuse the people. He asked his audience to take ‘a look at these words. “The people want public house ing" for low:income families,” he
said. “The selfish interests are opposed to this because they think it will cut down their
80 they call it ‘collectivism.’ ” : “We don't call it. “We are for public housing ° because it is thé democratic way - to provide decent homes in place of slums. “The people want fair laws for labor. The selfish interests are against these -laws- because -they--mistakenly. fear that their profits will be reduced; so they call that ‘statism,’ ¥ “We don’t call it. “The people want a better social | security system, improved education, and a national health pro|gram. The selfish interests are |trying to sabotage these programs because they have no concern [about helping the little fellow; |so they call this the ‘welfare state.’ | “We don't care what they call it.” He said the arguments against the programs run this way: We can't afford them during a boom because it would be inflationary; we can’t afford them during a depression because they would be deflationary; we can't afford them during war, and we can't afford them during peace. - “We can afford them,” he said, “we ought to have them, and we will have them.” .
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Revolution In the Tub
® Every time you wash your hands . . , do the laundry . . , lather your chin you're mixed up in one of the most amazing. situations affecting your daily life .
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