Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 December 1949 — Page 39

A * $15.95

WEEKLY

WEEK

a

Lt a

tax

AA

“THURSDAY, DEC, 15,

-o ILLINOIS o _ - SHOE REPAIR

HALF. SOLES HALF SOLES .... 79° ® MEWS WATS oc 18 S. Minois St.

Cleaned ond Blocked Ninos and Washington

[\ J/ Morris Plan Invest ment Certificates earn 3%, interest peryear from day issued.

Interest checks are / mailed each 6 months. »

4.1 \

A Certificates mature Lin 6 months and may § % be automatically re- 2 i newed. Certificates § are issued in mul- £ “4 tiples of $1,000.

/ / Morris Plan Savings, {i in passbook form, / yearn 1%2% interest compounded twice a year. Start saving with $3 to $30,000.

VICTOR CONVERSION Sruliad OIL BURNER

SEE THE VICTOR OIL BURNER IN

~~

NP MILE RL

Comfortobly

415 MASS. AVE.

At? rt ln « ” J 7

collapse after & ‘with Defense Attorney Glenn Lane. recess, fearing a heart attack; {and Superior Judge Clement D.

SWITCHING TO

L HEAT?

Investigate the 'Super-Etficient’

Model Helen Keller (left) confers with her attorney, Glenn

|

H

Lane, and her roommate, Toni Hughes, during her trial.

Model Slated In 'Sex-Extort

to Take Stand ion’ Trial

Talent School Head Admits Motel Dates

With Girl He Accuses

of ‘Shakedown’ Plot

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 15. (UP)—Red*haired Model Helen Keller

may answer charges today that $9000 from a talent school head

she and her roommate squeezed in a “sex-extortion” plot,

Deputy District Attorney Al Lucas indicated he would call Miss

Keller after his star witness, Ben Klekner, 49, finished his testimony. The silver-haired Hollywood educator yesterday called Miss

Keller a prostitute and said her mother knew it, The model and Toni Hughes, both 26, are accused of making a recording of intimacies between Miss Keller and Mr. Klekner, then threating to disclose the relationship unless he paid hush money. The bespectacled school chief, who admitted numerous motel dates with Miss Keller, was near heated exchange

Mr. Kiekner asked for a

“VIKKTOR=

OIL BURNER

Enjoy completely automatic oil heat with a Hall-Neal super-efficent burner head means real fueldollar sovings to you. A VICTOR Oil Burner can be completely installed in your present furnace “in less than a day. Completely jnfor as little as $10.54 per month on . terms

VICTOR Oil Burner, VICTOR'S

CALL LI. 4576 OUR SHOWROOM—FREE PARKING

Nye instructed Mr. Lane to “go easy” in further questioning. Mr. Klekner said he made many attempts to break off his dealings with Miss Keller and once hired one of Mobster Mickey Cohen's henchmen, Dave Ogul, to see if he could “get something on her.” Denies Writing Poems Mr. Lane, who contends that: [Miss Kellér was an “innocent! [girl” whom Mr. Klekner tried to brush off after promising mar=! riage; introduced three poems!

which he. said were-w¥itten by the | ~~

{educator to her as proof of hie

{romantic attachment.’ ! Mr. Klekner denied he wrote

~~ Ythem and said he lied when he

told her he ioved her." “I resorted to lies, trickery, ‘schemes . ... to deceive this girl,” ‘he said. “When T told her I was going to divorce my wife and marry her, it wasn't true. “I was just trying to appease her so she'd stop demanding money and threatening me.”

Beer Case Conceals Weapon for Hold-up

TACOMA, Wash. (UP)—A man! carrying an empty beer case approaced . the manager of a local store just as the latter was opening up one Sunday. The manager prepared to tell him that ‘the’ ‘store wasn’t allowed to sell beer jon Sunday. “ But the man didn’t want any beer, Inside the case was an automatic pistol. He held up the man‘ager and escaped with the con-

JUST IN CASE

ANTA WANTS TO STAY ALL NIGHT

Sleeps T Easily!

INNERSP

‘BE PREPARED for SANTA or any unexpected guest for the Holidays with one of these lovely and smartly -styled DUO : DIVANS. Choice of covers and arm styles. Especially priced $ 00 for this event our regular $179.95 Divan for only $159.00. Easy Terms. Open every night until 9p. m. ° :

RELIABLE FURNITURE CO.

fo hall 728

Opens Quickly to Full Size Bed Upholstered with Full Size RUBBER

tents of the safe.

LOOK FOR THIS FAMOUS LABEL

RUBBER

wo Comfortably—Sits Three Just

TULATEX RING MATTRESS, Biscuit Tufted.

326 E. VERMONT ST.

Walter R. Cros

day {blirns suffered Monday when a fire destroyed home in Acton. He was 45. | His wife and a son, Malcolm, Palace, the 650-room layout where the King and Queen of [*rehitect named when England live, also is in a bad way and.the British have just| back decided to spend another $150,000 to fix it up.

7 {flames swept the kitchen and walls of the house.

h

" {Mr. Crosby had lived in Acton leight years. been an employee of Allison Di|vision, General Motors Corp. He |was a member of the Acton Bap- 0 1800, while the palace wasn't tist Church.

|daughfer, Mrs. Ruth Campbell, more genteel tradition. Indianapolis; and Mrs. Elisha Crosby, St. Paul,/in the new U, 8. capital. BuckInd., and Stewart Crosby, Wald. ingham Palace, on the other hand, ron.

rites later this week in the Acton Baptist Church.

Services, Burial To Be in Acton Walter R, Crosby died yester-| in Methodist Hospital of

Falling Apa Is in Need of Repair

the rear of his

only famous lean-to that’s

escaped unharmed That makes our building because the White House is Recently, he had 37 years older than Bucking ham Palace, having been Quilt

A native of Shelby County,

finished until 1837. Mr, Truman's place also has a At least Mr. it was the first building erected

Other survivors include a

his parents,

started out as a rowdy amuse-, Burial will be in Acton after ment park. That, of course, was back in the, 1650's, after King James I

y Royal Palace

Buckingham, Like White House,

ripps-Howard Staff Writer ) ; WASHINGTON, Dec. 15—The White House isn’t the] Then George IV came along

‘By ANDREW TULLEY, Se

1049 Ets g THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES _- " i ie PAGE | SC Fs ergot 7 HRI re /berry Garde: he | tally y foie Mitle in it Ready to Tell of ‘Romance’ Ty Burns fatal to Housing Crigism— pr roves family, Tie a alt enly had a "a oh : | Lf : George III, the guy George Wash- hundred room¥ then.. a “3 ~ |ington - kayoed, bought it for| But after they added son $85,000 from Sir Charles Shef- spare, ballrooms and a gross |

field, a slightly illegal son of the(iwo of conservatories, Vieky {Duke of Buckingham. hubby Albert ‘lived there ha . The late duke was an une ever after. Except for the (principled cuss, but he'd fixed up Bert fell through ‘the ice the place nice and cosy, building skating on the lake, : la mansion called Buckingham on. 0 . |House, and George found it just} A LOT more dough has been {the place for a little aristocratic sunk in the house since" 3 === {philandering. IV spent that first try $3% million. By now.-the furnishings land he did't like it sald it was alone, including an armory-sized Buckingham old-fashioned. 80 he hired an art gallery, are valued at $2 t | Nash to tear it million and the house itself probe _ (ably wouldn't go for a penny less . » “.. [than _$10 million. TY ie “MR. NASH estimated.-the job! “After all, it's full of glass doors i hws ; : ov | Would. cost $2 million; but he was which: cost $30,000 each gold industry look a little better, |, fast man with @ buck and hy/plate at- $60,000 per pe Bo ‘to had flopped In the silk business.|/the time the palace was finished say nothing.of the royal .coach Somebody had told Jimmy ajthe cost.had run up to more than|which set the country back a cool bunch of Japs were making fists-| $3.5. million and the economy|$40,000 back in 1762, ful of dough raising silk worms Ploc in the cabinet got so mad, Mrs. Truman should have the and he wanted in. {they fired. him housekeeping headaches Queen me [ Then, after all that fuss Elizabeth: has, too. It costs SO IN 1609 he set apart a piece George IV never got to live in $800,000-a year just to keep the of land near St. James' Park|{the new palace. Neither did ms/palace running and it's enought and planted it. with mulberry «on, William IV, who thought it to drive a person nuts just seeing trees. His English silkworms were was so ugly he offered to letito it that every one of those a lazy lot, though, and after sev-iparliament use it. 80 the first|250 clocks are wound every night, eral years he gave it up and sold royal occupant turned out to bel. As for the labor involved in the garden to a man-about-town Queen. Victoria. putting out the cats—plural-= named Lord Goring Vicky loved the place. only at well, just figure that out for It wasn't until 1761 that Mul- first: she complained that tha! yourself. ’

rt

falling apart.

down and build a new place...

ed. 11'S FREE. . cna ¢ You Are Invited .. 1 .. and for CHARITY IT'S INDIANAPOLIS’ BIGGEST CHRISTMAS PARTY!

the CROSLEY CHRISTMAS AUCTION

~ SATURDAY NIGHT

invited: Admissio® tor Charity

CROSLEY

WLMRLL

1

745 P. M.

FOR THE

Times

Clothe-A-Child FU N D

You CAN BID on the merchandise offered

and the proceeds will go to the Times Clothe-A-Child fund so that needy children can be properly clothed for the winter ahead.

The following Christmas gifts will be auctioned - off to the highest bidder.

Crosley Uultra-Fidelity

Television Set Electric Range ¥

10 Crosley Radios

Crosley DeLuxe Automatic

Crosley 9.2 Cubic Ft. Custom Refrigerator

Other merchandise

Come down to the Circle and make your bid, all mer- * chandise to the highest bidder and every cent raised ~ will-go to Cloth-A-Child . . . You can help some needy child and destitute family..

SPONSORED BY THE CAPITOL PAPER (0., (ROSLEY DISTRIBUTORS AND’ THE CROSLEY DEALERS OF MARION COUNTY

- Allen Furniture Co. Colonial Furniture Co. Hoosier Pain! & Linoleum Co. John Kock Furniture Co. 2338 Station Street Meridian at Maryland 211 Eost Washington Street 826 Virginia Avenue Appliance and Home Furnishings Colonial Furniture Uplown Store Ideal Furniture Co. Murphy Appliance Sales Co. 4202 Eost New York Street 4173 College 227 West Washington Street 3321 East 10th Street Barret! Hardware Co. Downlon and Wheat Inc. Kasper Furniture Company Rosner Furniture Co. 344 Eost Washington Street 4445 Kockville Rood 860 Virginia Avenue 823 North Senate Avenue Belmont Home Appliance Co. "Home Appliance Company > Kirk Furniture Co. Shelby Furniture Co. : 503 North Belmont 3360 North “Illinois Street 215. West Washington Street 1115 Shelby Street

South Side Furniture Co, 932 South Meridian Street

Stout Furnifure Co.

1929 West Motris Street

3 p iy