Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 September 1949 — Page 3

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Army, James A. Doan, 727 8 Whitcomb St., and T. 3-¢c Clydes| 8. Howard, Army, Richard L.| Howard, 152-D, Tyndall Towne. |

they are not.” INSPECTOR O'NEAL took a long pull at his home-made cigaret and studied its burning

Wives were always reporting their husbands missing and somé of them secretly ho to get him arrested. > “But in this cise it was dif-

icomplete; Daviess County levee, |Unit No. 8, $893,000, about one-| {half complete; New Albany flood wall, $8265.000, one section near-

prisoner The other servicemen from In- end. The veteran of 35 years ferent. By golly, we did find {ig Sempletion; O agies Mi} reel i ‘diana include T. Sgt. William H. on the Indianapolis police de- » his body. We found out that |yunnel completed, work on control ct Burns, Air Force, whose next of Partment who says he's “been Le Na ; he'd’ gone to the store and ex- Mower under way and oh tor! . 9 Gifts kin is Ralph Burns, Frankfort; everything on the department Typical of thousands of “missing persons” reported to police pected to be back in 15 minutes. |, 4 0 dam construction'to be let : Sgt. Charles W. Cheairs, Army, except a police woman." took go ...vgar are these faceless people. To police and friends in Instead he met a couple of guys || “no C0 2 ked Car Oscar Cheairs, Gary; Sgt. Eugene| Plenty of time in defining a Ma teod " |n Who forced him into a car, took . x fa " their own home town perhaps they are “missing persons.” In dM Leonus Conrad, Marine Corps, ‘missing person. lity th ed " th Vo be in him out here and murdered him. | / gr Br Cleo L. Conrad, Crawfordsville; The Missing Persons Bureau ~T°® ity they are "missing persons” because they want to i No, sir, you can never tell. Tinder to Head ment wher Pfc. Robert L. Evans, Marine in Indianapolis is now a well that category. : THE INSPECTOR continued . | rom their Corps, Elmer L. Evans, New Al-| ordered and organized depart- .. yi... who ses only the “They go to an airline ticket to point out the difference be- |V FW Delegation | ' ny) ot eyames B. Neighbours, ment in the Juvenile Ald Di- gr matic side of a casual dis- office, the railroad or the bus tween the old way of doing John G. Tinder, India | Photo By Bil Oates, Times Staff Photographer. Nayy, Owen J. NeigHbours, Wa-/ vision. It is handled by JAD a rance. Age of the missing ~ station and buy a couple of things and the present system. . er, Indiana com: Police beli "6 Bl " 4 New. d at more bash; Pfc. Chagles E. Redmon,| because policewoman usually Ppea: Has a ge at deal to do feet of ticket. They pack their “Nowadays,” he said, “when |mander of the Veterans of For- ice teve Oypsy blossom,” gentle affectionate - from the Army, Neal Redmon, Markleville; handle the painstaking detail Drs tach A Inspector Other shirt and clean collar, a Wife reports her husband |elgn Wars, will lead a stite VFW, foundland female dog, owned by Clifford Chasteen, is the vicious, = inote's pare Cpl. John T. Remijan, Army, John of tracing missing persons. It ints out ’ or a few things women carry, missing she gets immediate at- |aelegation 5 the “Indiana Day” dangerous ugly panther reported prowling near Sumner Road and , Marshall Teulon, Lateonss 34 14, Lowe) is a JAD function now because ©° "uw. and they're off. sension Boery possible angle lcelebration Oct. 9 at Eaton Ne Illinois Central Railroad crossing Friday night. Some 30 officers § the - ackson eelz, arine Corps, a large percentage of “missin o* : “Perhaps they fail to tell the Is checked and we soon know . i . iy “ " Jesse R. Sheetz, Plainville; Pvt. 2 a5 ureennas are na ti we, P ay pasiionar yiitn landlord ed going or they whether the disappearance is | Rapids, Mich. | armed ih fick guns hunted she wicaped myste boss while. police yes- Harlle A. Starkweather, Army, boys and girls. The more grue- le of 8 Bile wo _— might even neglect to advise legitimate or if he's just out | More than 1000 VFW members Mundreds of calls floode sheriff's office and a warning was.“ gifts in his Mrs. Lena Leitzow, Brook; Sgt. some —and very infrequent — “We mever fail to follow Lrothers, sisters or even wives ma bender, i .. land their wives are expected to| broadcast on the radio. : Sol eedershurg. Jernest = Naltens, fray, Rd cases of mysteriously murdered through on a report of an 8nd pushands that they think i They BP ar attend the annual observance at Sociol Service IL dl t th - , 8 ArTe and hard-to-identify persons are life would be more pleasant in . the VFW home where wid a Body ady Sav Se Haute; .Pfc. Thanas L. Zoto, few and far Se i elderly man or woman reported + WoL PE SO Sty. not missing. The wives have e ows and an es

Army, Leonda 8. Zoto, Hammbtrid.

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a NT vw To Mark Anniversa 10- minutes - a — - Rakai Sain Neal sver io gonsidés the Niipber of “THESE PEOPLE aren't er na Down the Soop. i aa VFW members already! The Social Service id . Roomer From Gas 4 AAD: 3 ’ : : g : own g. p a case of de ] 3 4 : e missing. Try Wire Recorders will say. “Missing persons, in Sau Awl a 2eten Re eam the ctv courts but in have donated more than $22,000 Red Feather service .of the In A 4 or man Jemerday \g, - electrie In Accident C years agone, was a Sort Of y, .aeual friends or perhaps They're missed, perhaps, by Isn't a legitimate missing per- [to erect a $40,000 building at the dianapolis Community Fund, will hia doo ninum and : nt-Lases haphazard, hell-for-leather; do- 41 qq creditors and friends but liter- Son report.” home, to be known as the Indiana/OPserve its 17th = anniversary, 20ks Bim es r gifts. DALLAS, Tex. (UP)Y—Police| or-don't, business. It was “In some of these cases, ally they do not come into the Inspector O'Neal said modern building. Completing of the fund-| Iuesday by sponsoring a delegate| Smelled gas aad round une. HII Chief Carl Hanson is studying largely the fault of the families while giving them all a routine category of missing persons, Police methods pay special at- [raising campaign is one- of the Meeting of the Council of Social Sones tious from | - plans to ®@se wire recorders to of missing persons and not the , \" wo study all angles They are not police business. tention nov to reports of girls |VFW's major objectives for the Agencies. ; ; of ot E Mark erashall ullivan, gather evidence at the scene of| police, too. It's a hard thing peeore becoming excited. In Inspector O'Neal rolled af- missing, particularly little girls, coming year. | The luncheon meeting will bei, Pot rust ou ww i traffic accidents. to decide, even today, when a ,..v instances the report of Other cigaret and explained be- If the girls are of age, however, Auxiliary members of the held in the Indianapolis Athletic ae rooms and ed, on his Machines would be placed in at| missing persons = report is a “missing person” is not a tween” missing persons and It is entirely possible and quite state's third district will distrip-/Club. Principal speaker will bei ed while a the coffee to least five accident investigators’| strictly legitimate.” concern of the police. It is 2nd fugitives from justice. probable that they've decided to |ute food and refreshments to Merrill R. Krughoff, associate di- boil alting coftee squad cars. The officers thus, The inspector became rem- merely a case where an adult Criminals are frequently miss- seek out a new kind of life away orphans during the observance, rector of Health and Welfare He fell aslee said, and "would have a permanent record| fiscent. In 35 years as a desires to be missing ing, very much and wanted ail from family ties. All Indiana department officers Planning, Community Chests and the . coffee ead. les a ; from witnesses and participants policeman, detective and de- “A man, or a woman, is tireq Over the country. They are Many boys and young men |andq their wives will attend Council of America, Inc. tinguished the Shiv an ne oo, in accidents immediately after] partment executive he can re- - of his present existance anda [uSitives from the law and are reported missing, it was " A special guest at the meeting burner, Escaping A, filled § they occur. member many cases, many wants a change. Maybe they're make it their business to be pointed out. If young they are FIRE RAZES 4 BUILDINGS will be Herbert S. King, who this|nis ig 30s Sacn i Chief Hanson sald court cases| incidents. Some were surpris:- harrassed by debt, perhaps Missing, always missing from usually runaways and will turn year has completed his 28th con-|some. i already are on record where wire| ingly legitimate but most of they just don't like their en- 1Y Place at all where a policy up some place very anxious to PARE » Ky., St AP) secutive year as a member of the| Mrs, Muriel Beckman, who recordings were admitted as) them were panicky mothers, vironment or they just feel the MAD With a warrant might be return home to mother and dad. |= Tn ure rdetesm. Planning committee of the Social operates the house, igs gvidence. or highly imaginative husbands urge to make a new start. Wag contrary; peoplé Who It over 18 they very likely are Jaday en or os downto {Service Exchange. ooming Hagin Bui, ; y have been reported as “miss- pe Barr otict section of this small town. Mayor, Mrs. Frank Fairchild, presidentithe locked door open and called , p ing” aren't all wanted. It sim- get out on their own. ~ |Comer Denton estimated damage of the committee, will preside at|the fire department. The victim : ‘ ply means that a relative or Wives, searching for missing at between $25,000 and $30,000. (the luncheon. was revived at the scene. : STRAUSS ' TF Fiend wants lo 2:4 tet, oes husbands, - are .wery often ; : + YT} not understand why they dis- pathetic but there isn’t much x SAYS: IRADITION-WITH A TOUCH OF TOMORROW! appeared, or. in some cases, {ear the police can do. All too fre- | STRAUSS SAYS: TRADITION WITH A TOUCH OF TOMORROW & . © foul play might have entered quently it is just.plain desertion, “ny ! re : SammrmTesg ie PO ~ x hi ion = a abe ia AA RT mA ey -- nto the-case. ae Inspector O'Neal says Hus: A tant ee OR mii Sala RIE Ma sao ii min eka Benge eo: Many, many persons are L8- bands grqw tired of he re- | - ; : : Flom Co a er : ported missing; Inspector O'Neal ' sponsibilities of a home and : > points’ out, who are not miss- a wife. Perhaps they cease to . ing at all. They simply want love their wives. They just dis- . to be missing. They are not appear... from choice. ‘ fugitives, they are not subject "8 =» - to arrest and there's no par- THEN THERE are the wives ticular reason for police search- Who are reported missing. ; ing for them. Most always there's a love trie “But you never can tell—it's angle or a new and glamorous hard to draw the line,” Inspec- affair. They run away with tor O'Neal says in ‘recalling Other men because husbands , some of the more sordid cases, Set careless and aren't very the legitimate missing persons. attentive. It's just a case of 2 = = broken homes. . WITH MODERNIZED police “Murder?” the Inspector systems, ‘social security num- asks with a slight twinkle in bers, federal income tax reports his eye. “It is very, very seland Army, Navy and Marine dom that a missing person ! Corps records of two world turns up as a murder victim. >. wars, it is becoming increas- Sometimes, yes, but more often ingly difficult for people to dis- he's just missing because he appear, the inspector points wants to be missing.” out. : It is becoming increasingly Time has been surprisingly hard to be a missing person. short, however, since haphazard Modern police methods can records or no record at all and track down most anybody anya lack of a followup system time“they want to find somemade it possible for people to one. There are still many ledisappear and stay missing. gitimate cases of missing perforever. ‘ sons but alert Indianapolis poJust a few years ago a man, licewomen, detectives and radio woman or even a child could - patrolmen don't let them stay “disappear” into a distant city, missing: very long. change names and avocations, Moreover, under modern live different lives and remain ways of checking, if a person missing persons forever. It is reported missing the police was only on rare occasions know when, where and if he { . that a person who actually de- turns up again. The follow : sired to be “missing” was ever through checking erystem asfound. sures a complete report, “We had a book back in the Missing person? Are they - : -, i early days” Inspector O'Neal murder victims? . rn recalls. “Thé desk sergeant No, Inspector O'Neal reas- : would write in it, ‘Jane Doe; ons, more than likely they just ‘ 17, reported missing by her want to be missing persons. - : Here's Last Dog to Identify - . . . » s In Times Puppy Contest Steps info the fall and winter of 1950— : Mail Eniries : with the choicest footwear. within its 100 yearsl : idnight Fay : Bajoie Mi aT Hanan was founded on the ideal and purpose to present : DOUBLE OR NOTHING! Here is the last dog for young- “only the best'—in the world of gentleman's footwear! : f sters to identify in The Times i SWEATERS Puppy Contest. All entries It has never departed from that aim and achievement! should be. mailed to Puppy Con- . g } : : ; rh test Editor, The Indianapolis THIS 'YEAR—celebrating their centennial year— : rT . ” " Times, 214 W. Maryland St, In- oR ' What's better than a smooth (lean on it!) dianapolis, before midnight to- Hanan has created footwear to make the occasion ¥ N ' : night. Clip this picture and paste : . — ¥ SWEATER?—TWO! It's the Bermuda Duet. Eh superlatively fine—And really remarkable in VALUE! : . . . . neath write the dog's breed and . . Especially recommended for light weight »/ a ns tie dogs reel ani 5 PY BY Cota Ey Nac? A new experience on earth awaits you— 1 y . : 3 breed, its origin and character- °° shi a : v 4 Warmif While yas tueile wih fet dogs rics: A emp (ni sat. 12 deny in Th Times apy The HURDLES in the classic VIKING last—18.50 - and coffee at the football game and tops Joent, in 25 adaitional words, oF Lontest, “ y ot } ess: e a (br of do ! for struttin your stuff at the after-the- bustuny . + a. 5in TL Peron Sends The Hanan famed SEAMLESS oxford—a a 8 = game party. . t's all wool n Sizes 36 to 40 ‘the best entries each will receive FOO Abroa : plain toe—18.50 . in GREEN and SUNSET—~BOWN and . ; * |a. $100 pedigreed puppy and Will _ Time Forsign Service gL ‘ ‘ BEIGE—or GRAY and MAIZE. be King ud Suetniol te Hoosier EANILA, P. I, Sept. 24— ‘HANAN introduces a fine family of younger : : hs . Dog Show in the Manutacturers| leven tons of Argentine good \ ' : The Duet and protective plastic bag : building at the State Fairgrounds, Will are due by sea shortly, thanks gentlémen's shoes—of Brushed calfs—of Scotch $ ; Ae The boy and girl submitting the to the generosity of its first lady. . ; . s ] b ‘ 10.9 (Not Available Separately) . second best entries each will re-| The wife of President Peron, grains—of shell cordovans—with a continental "os a : ceive a ‘$50 pedigreed puppy. Dona Eva Duarte De Peron, has : ‘ ” ; rE : The contest is open to all/dispatched & catgo of food via the outlook—Variously priced at 19.50—22.50-and 23.50 Rd lL STRAUSS & 0) youngsters through 19 years of Dutch steamer Boissevain, for « ; ' i “has, .-" igs wie sinpioyess St he needy Filipino children. ’ x Cp TAR $ ; Lie iid { . . ; and ‘members o e Hoo-| * 's” gift comes as another A 1 ~ 5 SPORTSWEAR—FOURTH FLOOR sier Kennel Chub, thar ath (in het speciacuier mternsieney be STRAUSS and COMPANY, Inc., THE MAN'S STORE v ' ; FE Lo : Yh ates, and members of their/donations as president of the Ar.| . , -’ = bi ae ! v I. Ai i ¥# Sede y a al 8 . . - ihe — : ’ ht d a i 4 ; . ; : . Ag vs A is ’ A wr

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