Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 November 1949 — Page 1
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Rutered - Second-Class Matter at Postofics CU ewe Indianapolis, Indiana, Issued Dally
Hundreds Join Killer of Girl
Fear Fugitive
May Have Slipped Into Mexico
Quick action by police prevents of Detroit girl, 7 ».+ + With photos , . . Page 3. | Tearful mother pleads for missing Cincinnati girl to come home . . . Page 2.
Photos of slain Los Angeles girl | and suspect hunted for crime | «++ Page 2,
LOS ANGELES, Nov, 16! (UP) —Enraged citizens joined hundreds of officers today to search southern and Lower California for an eld-| erly baker suspected of slay-| ing and mutilating 6-year-old! Linda Joyce Glucoft. | Roadblocks were set up. Pie: tures of the suspect, 67-year-old Fred Stroblé, a known sex offender, were distributed. Officers on thé international border at Tijuana, Mexico, were alerted in, case he tried to slip into Mexico.! The girl's corpse was found in Stroble’s yard early yesterday. The body was half-naked and]
was crammed into a trash heap of old bottles and tin cans. x os Parents SHEE Mayor Feeney signs a proclamation making Saturday “Kid's The girl's parents, commercial! 5, w i |ndianapolis. In his office fo witness the signing today Jha paper es Siucon: ad | were Sears W. MacNeill, president of the Kiwanis Club of North _wheimed by grief. | ‘Indianapolis (left) and Wilbur Foster, president-elect of the lrv-
Stroble, a balding, gaunt man Kiwanis Club. was a fugitive on one child ington _u molestation when the)
charge x) . » " » . gran, for vas Jor were§ Johnny Holiday’ Premiere
Authorities placed great cre-
aence on + report gen em vv (Guest Star Roster Grows
Dallas Lindsay who drives a bus between San Diego, Cal, and the Mexican border. Mr. Lindsay definitely identified Stroble as a man he drove south early yesterday. He said
Tim Holt and Screen’s New Tarzan
the man got off the bus at the Holiday” is being imported from Hollywood, officials announced
San Ysidro, Cal, border bus sta- today tion just as “wanted” pictures of »
Stroble were bel distributed there. se : players will be at the Lyric Theater Friday for the Kiwanis-'va., to New York. Capt. Galloway tal gpmahe oe Shin Sorimitice: Jang uo so. W Slashed and Beaten sponsored premiere for the benefit of underprivileged children. | was piloting a twin-engined DC-3,| gd : {understand Russia is runbing out.|agked if Mr. Bevin would consider Mr. Lindsay had not heard of pl Nw v { “Jt was still uncertain today but it was not known mmedi- ne “Relations do not improve and establishing communication with "the erime until after Stroble dis-i gy _¢ __ > whether for mot Jimmie Fidler, ately how many persons were : danget Js that the ithe. appeared from the bus depot. Refuses Police Hollywood radio commentator aboard. Conversations Ruled snubbed, rebuffed An autopsy report said Linda
for the premiere.
Kiwanis Request
body three times with an ice pick. A Kiwanis Clubsrequest for po- ceding the
NYC Restores Train Service
At noon today the New “York Board today. . Central Railroad had restored to _ Both Gov. Schricker and Mayor officials
{Feeney are listed among .mem-/ghe wogld fly here. service two of the 10 trains dis-; "or tne delegation scheduled | . * continued locally during the coal +, weicome the incoming stars at
strike, The two runs will be one each man said. way between Chicago and Cincin«
Airport to the|in Indianapolis late Friday.
from Weir Cook X For a while it appeared as
Lyric Theater for the premiere of
ers who
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Accept Kiwanis’ Invitation to Benefit Showing V5; Y*jirdar.
~~ WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1049
Kids to Have Ther Do Misig B23
20 Men Aboa Craft )
Force B-20 nearing Bermuda
Acheson Angere
‘To Base in England HAMILTON, Bermuda, ar ae ar Nov. 16 (UP)—A U, 8. Air
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Blacklists Re
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after a 3500- milé nonstop
fight fom Catrnia mao OPiection Upheld [hice Warned Russia Agrees to Pre
today that it was running out! of fuel and going down in the sea.) | The Superfort with 20 mén, ‘aboard was missing in the At-| {lantic somewhere off Bermuda.| {Its last radio message, report. {ing that it .was going down, was sent at 11:45 a. m. (9:45 a. m. Indianapolis Time). { The four-motored bomber was {three hours and 35 minutes overdue at Kindley Field, U. 8. Alr Force base here, when the message was received. Four search planes took off from Kindley Field to search for the missing bomber as soon as its message was received. Bound. for
over quadrants northwest and southeast of Bermuda.
the Second Squadron, 27th Bom{bardment Group, 15th Air Force, {stationed at Riverside, Cal. It took off last night for the nonstop flight to Bermuda. It was on the way to England with other planes of the same group. Fifteen other B-29’s arrived this morning. They were standing by! to join in the search.
Airline Pilot Tells Of ‘Near Miss’ WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 (UP) ~The Civil Aeronautics Administration said today it has received a report from an Eastern Alr
Lines pilot of a “near miss” with a military plane near Quantico,
| « The latest of three near-miss
More: glitter for the Indianapolis world premiere of “Johnny incidents was reported to the CAA
by Capt. Hanson Gallowdy, pilot! of Eastern Air Line's flight No.
and columnist, would be on hand! Capt. Galloway reported to the
" {CAA that he could not identify
cinched a necktie : But the presence of Mr. Hope the service to which the military around her throat. Escort for Stars and Miss Russell was confirmed. plane belonged, but he said it wan D: Bain today refused to anit Mr. Hope sald in a telephone con-|a “military Beechcraft.” 0 evidence versation with William R. Krafft, Safety Board Denies chairman of the ticket committee, was “coming at him from the 3 * that he would serve as master of west” and narrowly missed a colceremonies of a rtage show pre-|jigion, “Johnny Holiday” lice escort of movie celebrities screening. He said he will arrive eurther details.
His report said the Beechcraft
The CAA said there were no
if
= = the movie, “Johnny Holiday,” Fri- Miss Russell might not be able «Coal Crisis Tum day was denied by the Safety arrange transportation here from ; : [Puerto Rico. But today, Kiwanis;
= = ver ty Truman
The troupe of Hollywood playill fly here from Los the airport, a Kiwanis spokes- Angeles Friday will include Rita Johnson, Ann Sterling, Lex BarkBoard President Leroy J. Keach .. the new ~ A Nigh. | nati. As the coal supply improves, said board policy does not per-|.,.ph,y star Tim Holt and Liz
Ching Calls Further
Mediation Futile WASHINGTON, Nov. 186 (UP)
the road will put the other cur- mit authorization of police escort py, aday, actress recently im- —The “Federal Mediation Service
[for visiting celebrities. Would Handle Crowds
talled runs back in service: The NYC announced it was re-|
iported from - France, and Noel{today turned. the soft coal wage {Neal. It was possible other screen dispute over to President Truman,
storing about one-third of the = Mr. Keach said, however, that players might join the troupe This left it up to the President
discontinued: service which will the policé départment would han- later. total about 50 runs over the na- dle traffic and expected crowds) tion by midnight Sunday, inear the Lyric Theater if a writ-| The Pennsylvania announced at ten request is submitted by the! noon. that it would. restore alliKiwanis Club. pwas - discontinued trains in this areal School,
Natiopal Program
fto prevent a new coal strike | Dee. 1. { Federal Mediation Chief Cyrus
The movie “Johnny Holiday” 8. Ching referred the coal dispute of the case. | South Englands’ worst f £ th filmed at Indiana Boys to the White House at a confer-| ho Rglands wore: fof of thie produced by Hoosier tence WIth “Mr. Truman's chief
by Monday. The four whith: will sot Sb it tat sollor nrovided/ Bonne. Alcorn, a “graduate” of labor Adviser, Presidential Assist-
return to service are Indianapolis to Louisville in the morning andl" short from he Wirport. back in the evening, and on { each way at noon between Chi-
e ". . - cago and Louisville. Railroad Joins n
The Interstate Commerce Com-| %
| underprivileged children,
coal reserves were reduced to 25, days or less.
handicaps. ; Mayor Feeney today signed
Full State Honors 16th-Sherman Jam
A proposed traffic control con-| proclamation urging Indianapo-| To Welcome Shah {tract between Indianapolis’ Union lis to observe Saturday as “Kid's recommendatjons to Mr, : . Iman ‘on what course.of action he did not believe Mrs. Conrad hr
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 (UP) Raflways and the city was before Day.” —His Imperial Majesty Moham-|the legal department today in a] Meanwhile, Mr. Krafft report med Reza Shah Pahlavi of Iran/ move to eliminate a bottleneck at! favorable arrives here today on a good will 16th St. and Sherman Drive, tour with cold war overtones, The 30-year-old “King of permit the city to tie an auto- $5, $7.50 to $10, are on sale Kings,” monarch of an oil-rich matic signal into the circuit which|the Claypool Hotel. nation on Russia's southern bor- operates the railroad crossing
der, will be welcomed with the|flashers near the intersection. of Irvington, North Indianapolis,
e_o * {There are no city signals installed | Martinsville, Greenfield, Frank- gates the dispute and recom- Show Originality, lin, Shelbyville, Columbus and In-/mends a settlement or-— ; | TWO: Invoke ‘the national
high tional Airport to greet him. There|city’s signals would stop all trat- win reach their voluntary sales emergency section of the Taft-|
. full panoply of state. ; | President Truman and other there. dignitaries will be at Na-| If the contract is approved the
National Kids Day Foundation mission had required “a 25 per] . lare sponsoring “National Kids it's now up to the White House to Conrad's breath shortly after the cent suspension when the waa [raffic Si al Plan == on Saturday, designed to head off the new soft coal strike Shooting. : hy call attention to the children whieh John L. Lewis has sched-| | whose lives are subnormial be-yjeq for Dec. 1 unless the United |
City Seeks fo Break cause of physical and financial ine Workers get together with) : the coal industry on a new con-
Over the nation Kiwanis and’¢he case would be fruitless.” |
ticket sales for the | Friday show. Tickets for the gen-; Terms of the contract. would! eral public; prices ranging from the President may:
lis Downtown believe they |
Ot Gblst if state police provided’, , school. The premiere. is part ant John R. Steelman. of Kiwanis International program | ) for helping handicapped = and;
Called Futile
Mr. Ching told Mr. Steelman {that “further mediation efforts in
& tract before then.
ed Mr. Truman should take. Possible Courses
Bn AONE: ak ns Laws and the i . | fo t 1 V3 Th Ti Crossroads tavern, 2179 Bluff A 0 n , v.41 : 8 Mr. Krafft said Kiwanis Clubs strikes and lockouts until a spe- ar Y n ries 0 e imes «|Rd., requested the ride from Rita Coming Home bh. ;
'eial fact-finding board Investi-
icoal industry
They shuttled through the skies
The bomber was attached to
3 » - 1568, which originated in =~ Defense Scores
In addition to Bob Hope and Jane Russell, seven more seresiiiand flies non-stop from Richmond,
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Mr. Ching told newsmen that
Mr. Ching said he made no | for Mrs. Conrad Mar. 25. Steel-|
It was learned, however, that
a | ing Tioe N. Korea for Release DF LASHR 1 Of 2 Jailed U. S. Aids
Detention of U. S. Consul at Mukden Declared Matter of Primary Concern
|Seripps-Howard papers lauded for strong stand in Ward > Of Costly Hostility case ve sss aaa ase sarees arvana er sera ness sn save ne BORE Sg LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y.! WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 ‘(UP)-—=Secretary of State Nov. 16 (UP) — Britain Dean G. Acheson said angrily today that Communist China's warned Russia today that un-| arrest of American Consul General Angus Ward has killed less it changes its ways “the any chance of American recognition of the Communist free world will reduce to a regime at this time, ; minimum its relations with] . My. Acheson told a mews confererice that the United the Soviet governnent. | a = 8 States considers the arrest of Hector McNeil, British Minjster * BE Le of State, made a long appeal « Bevin Rules Out the Soviet Union to co-operate.
for peace with the rest of the
| : 4 is world as the United Nations Po- R age i ter of primary conéern. . ted : andi i “commits wt > Hasty RECOZMIION “ical oe ue Russia and, jointly, by the United ! U. S. View a Factor,
States and Britain. a “The time for understanding LTH steadily, if gradually, runs out,”| ° He Tells Commons Mr. Acheson also announced: Mr. McNeil warned Soviet For-| LONDON, Nov. 16 (UP)—For- : eign Minister Andrel Y. Vishin-leign Secretary Ernest Bevin/testing to Nationalist Chins EHer sky, who ‘was sitting beside him. promised Commons today that| hip on the American
Sabotages Peace “no hasty action” would be taken “I don't mean we are on the/in the matter of recognizing ht freighter Fiiing oud of
Briton ot UN Reminds Kremlin
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edge of war. I do not think the| Chinese Communist the endangering of lives, leaving Stalinist regime contemplates With Which he has tried in vain'y,, proader question of whether : war and certainly mo one eige to communicate. the Nationalists had a right to Mrs. Myrtle Conrad (left) and |does. But it must be plain that . Mr. Bevin said that the United stop the vessel for investigation. her atlome Miss Jessie Low this campaign to sabotage peace States viewpoint is among the - ¥ Jossio Lovy. | os disastrous in its consequence issues which must be considered.
a. as its failure. : | Je tid questioners inthe “Test it anywhere by sampling! Hous $hat-ne hadt made starts
of free people, by the votes and ment in Peking but had met with
| Not Admissible ha, wi Mute 10 4 Rininug its Communist government. > 2am trsbal Pla Communist ‘gover > ’ conversations ’ but have had no reply,” Mr: Bevin [tween police and the husband of| Mr. McNeil, whose humOrouS g.i4 “IT am more concerned with Mrs. Myrtle Conrad whom she 1s ‘Scottish invective has scored OVeliacting together with the common rn. {charged of slaying. Mr. Vishinsky in a number Ofiyweqth and other friendly govern-| Acheson about a sug+ | As the first-degree murder trial [Previous clashes, pleaded serious opty rather than in taking a gestion by for | entered its second day, Miss Jessie \¥ WIth the Russians to change p,.y decision about this.” . | Levy, attorney for Mrs. Conrad, | . bes ay eu = | | He indulged in satire only when _ {repeatedly objected to the admis[sion of such evidence. he commentea that it might be Canada to OK | Miss Levy argued the conver- (Inappropriate for Mr. sky.
! | . * 'sations were not admissible since °° tSuineht upon the vimdrawal Reds in Time : I EH a Jot0.grom foreign lands “at the very OTTAWA. Nov. 16 (UP)—Ex-|that he had been out of the Conrad's arrest. Judge Bain sus- Moment when he was launching ternal ATfalrs Minister Lester B. United States and had not seen tained the defense objections. [ihe Soviet ‘Marshal’ plan for Po- Pearson announced to Parliament Mr. Bullitt's suggestion. Mrs. Conrad, 42, is charged land by Installing Marshal Rokos- today that “in due course” Canada; As for the Americans with the fatal shooting: of her *°Y KY in Warsaw. _ {will extend formal recognition to North Korea, this country had husband, Claude, 52, Mar. 15 in We shall judge Mr, Vishinsky’s the Communist Government in twice sent notes to Russia about their home at 635 N. Noble St. peaceful intentions" he Added. China, them. Mr. Conrad died two days later in not by the words of his resolu-| Mr. Pearson said recognition of | + The Russian reply sald Soviet General Hospital {tion but by ‘the acts of his gov- the Chinese Communists would Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vi- | : |ernment, and we are mournfullyinot mean Canada’s approval of shinski has the Russian Introduces Revolver {and miserably reminded nat i is communism. {ambassador in North Ki > {the acts of his government whichi “In the “face of all eirciim- inform the Communist To e first. state witness today, : ; pe 5 Sgt. Toten Kin ay. have destroyed international con- g¢ances, and in consultation with there of this country’s nt tified he arrived on the scene Daence. |other friendly governments we appeals for Soviet help in frees
shortly after the shooting to es- pag IN TAIN L will have to recognize the fact ing the Ameri tablish the technical background: 36 IN be 1 ey MTR _ [that confronts us,” he said. |:
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| Deputy Prosecutor Russell winter gave way to bright sun-| {White then “introduced into" evi {shine today after erimping traf-| (dence a 38 caliber revolver whichig, uo 13nd sea and air for al {he said wis the death weapon day and a half. |
: : ! a . |" LOCAL TEMPERATURES {and an envelope containing five a ——- a L ads t 8am .. 4 am .. 91 {live cartridges and one spent ge J so | p 0 I ee 34 4 \shell. : : Licking That Cold | 8 > = .. 88 B a 4 |" Sgt. Klein told the jury he de-| ®A new miracle pill, fam ..38 1pm...
Organist Injured by | — # 3 's P ler y | Partly cloudy skies and windy, anes rrope |weather tonight will send’ the A persistent request to fly OVer| mercury down to 30, and bring
{Indianapolis at ‘night put a : {39-year-old woman into Methodist ®0lder weather tomorrow, the
|Hospital in - critical condition Weather Bureau sald today. [today. | Light snow ‘flurries fell on the | Police reported Mrs. -Luéille/city yesterday, as the mercury Love, 725 Prospect St. received reached 42. Temperatures today
[tected an alcoholic odor on Mrs. | taken when you feel a cold
coming on, will knock out the pesky illness before it gets started. ® You'll learn about this amazing new drug — with the story of the Navy doctor who discovered Iit—in PARADE Magazine , , .
‘Walked Straight’
Miss Levy objected his state-| ment and read from'the record | lof a habeas corpus proceeding!
At that time, Sgt. Klein stated
SUNDAY severe lacerations on her head, Were to reach 53 after arpping ad been drinking prior ‘to the IN |chest and arms when she walked ganly Wany , Wo . the city (Continued on Page 3—Col. 8) THE BIGGER SUNDAY TIMES IDto a propeller of a plane being, ° * x unieipal
{warmed up for the flight at 3:30; Port. Co The mercury will reach 40
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a. m. today. : Mrs. Love, an organist at the MOITow. : La
‘Good Old Days’ Contesl—
Marvin Reed, 2737 Brill Rd.; with i whom she had taken a daylight, In March, Father 0 trip recently, Mr. Reed, a school-| HOLLYWOOD, Novi-18 (1 Master Eduardo
mate of Mrs. Love's son, Wallace, Prucing is a licensed pilot.
* in Ideas Prizes Offered for Best Suggestions
Hartley Act, agd seek a federal!
will be a guard of honor and a|fic on 16th St. while trains are quota.
21-gun salute. crossing the intersection. Traffic court injunction forbidding By ART WRIGHT 'driven to Municipal Airport by The Shah is arriving in Mr.|in Sherman Drive uld be Czech Mission strikes or lockouts in. the coal Here are typical orl entries in The Times’ contest for ideas! Roy Miller, 49 Cossell Drive, and |With her Truman's private plane, the In- granted right-of-way that ‘ fields for about 80 days. | tof Erwin Hess’ “Good Old Days” color comic feature which appears Miss Toyee Newland, 717 E. 23d St, Apt. 1, companions of Mr.
dependence, and will use it for time. ec j d Mr. Truman is expegted to act| Times a. month-long coast-to-coast After Are & the Br ks With R $ quickly, perhaps as edrly as to-| Th ay E. Vander Meulen, R. R. 2, Box 114, Greenwood Reed at the tavern, / | “Living in the country, too far for commuting often (via Dobbin | Felt Something Hit Mr. Ching, who has held 100g 41g the surrey), father bought a post card projector run by carbide. meetings with both Mr. Lewis prongs came with their snap-|
hy automatic signals would resume BERLIN The Shah will spend four days normal operation. v Nov. NS
. (UP) morrow, 3 He will: be the Seeks to Speed Trafiie Brith RAE id oa “Mission
For Popular Sunday Comic Feature
Mrs, Love and the pilot were daughter,
Mr. Reed told police while he {was warming up a Cessna aircraft
Ind. — “There were five of we
1 Lewis (Cap) Johnson, traffic arations man at Blair House and at a engineer, said . department is state dinner tonight. Tomorrow he will move to
in British and the coal operators over the their he with! past month, said he was ing Da on children, four girls and one boy.
vinced that the parties "are ne ped sheet hung for a screen, farther apart than they were 18st wai mother played the organ, Would begin the weekly bath or-
|spring.”
owned by Joseph E, Zainey, 606 N. LaSalle St. he felt “something hit the plane.” ;
Saturday night after supper we
off the ignition and the plane fo find Mrs, Love sprawled beneath the
ideal. We had around tin tub.
father held the current DBAbY.iyi,;or would fll the tub... . wejumped tror
brother ran the projector and
which the government has leased ers, he said, 16th 4s an official guest house.
Poosh "Em Oop
MOSCOW, Nov. 16 (UP)--The ‘newspaper “Moscow Bolshevik"
The Meeker Sex |
sister lighted or extinguished the coal oil lamp as needed, and we
would each have our turm . . . same water. Our backs, ears were scrubbed by our mother, not trust-
propeller,” Mr. Reed told investi-| gators, “I thought everyone ‘was
lolled on the