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up at Eupen;.near Liege. I was| ; ©. |National Guard units to halt em- - Recall Chtistmas telling the drivers to get their) Painfer Got Large listments. Ne Toe oN vehicles out of the sheds the $ "Gen. Hitchcock's order cdme as a Five Years Ago Germans. were slamming -with| Sum, Inspectors Say i ar

: - : = (Continued . From Page One). {buzz bombs. 1 remember walking A 56-year-old House: panter{fioosier Suatdemen Somipieied wm oh Su Seized Aft seemed paralyzed and couldn't toward my! jeep. Then I woke up with a long criminal record to- | More than 800 Hoosiers joined spect Seiz er. | Juke E On. the stretcher in the in the mow. | C~ be |day. pleaded guilty in Federal the guard during the two-month mi . ol jeep those bumps were bad and “I don't fee er just - ’ { recruitt ; : Running Gun Chase; I asked them to slow down, They cause I've been in hospitals ever Court to a charge of mall theft. Recruiting period. The snlistments

: 4 * brought the total stre of Drug Clerk Sluaged | ‘Thad to keep right on." | since. “I'm going back ta” St. Hard of hearing Fred Colwell, guard. up to nearly SRE of ua © Slugging - guh-waving bandits. oN * & Ww ‘Mary's; 0." how to be with my 4505 B. 10th St. admitted steal-| Gen. Hitchcock sald that the: held up-four Indi i .. SGT. BRINTON, minus a leg family for Christmas. I've been g and cashing two checks total- authorized strength was 15,000 23 prt anapolis business lost after the Bulge, remembered a mechanic, but I'm going to| © 1 {Including air units and ground , places last night and early today. # Christmas Eve, 1044, in the old|school in California and may go NE $214.25 rom private mall ces. ~ EMRE ¥ A fifth attempted holdup: failed blacked-out schoolhouse outsjde into commercial photography un-| boxes. : + | He discloféd that. a military : . : reached

and the would-be bandit - was Liege. {til 'I get my strength back. It's| . The two checks, however, were strength ceiling had been

‘J. ~~ capturediaftera bullet-punctuated’ k “We had one bottle’ he said. been a setback, but only. tem-ionly a small part of the thou-{under the present budget. He said ~™. chase through downtown streets. F Cognac. "There were eight of porary.” j |sands of dollars he gained during procurement of officers and ‘men : _ The first holdup in last night's Bf us, and that wasn't much.” * 5.8 [the last year or longer, accord- will be attempted again whem : series was a 8 p. m. at Brown! © 4 yg: rs | SGT. BRINTON came out of the 0 t4 postal authorities. {budget limitations are removed. = Cy Pharmacy, 2401 N. Dlnois St."" fF. MASTER SGT. DAVIS, his Army in 1045. but he coufdn't get r————————y

M Fo right arm gone, turned back to's life ter Postal Inspectors M. P. Wood Two 0 entered and without # the samé Christmas, k.to inind BD Siler Moi he and Ora Workman, who arrested Steal Whisky across he hn dem Neat, glerk. “We'd been in reserve in the joined up again in 1948, was in an Colwell in his home Dec. 14, said ps a gun. or na neck ph i TR a Hurtgen Forest. Now we were accident on an Army post in he admitted’depredations on mail And Beer Chaser

boxes all over the city. He car- a of the stor~ while the other forced holding “in the line just across Alaska. that cost him his leg. | ied false identifications from sev.| Indianapolis burglars are stocks

3 . Mr. Neal into the rear room. They Santa Claus traded in his reindeers for a fire engine to visit with the kiddies in Beech Grove fiom Belgium in Ger many. a When hospital dava a Jone he eral persons to aid him in indors- ing up on Christmas cheer, police fled with $830 and a quantity of this week. The Beech Grove Businessman's Association sponsored the roving Santa and lent him | “=U A oS ry Aud ph “Biit you know.” he sald. “When Ing and cashing checks, they said.\renorted today, Rareotics. | the local fire engine for his rounds through Beech Grove. With Santa as he rode into town .yes- |.jinned ofr a tree by our hole. That I was on leave once an oid lady He also used several aliases. Thieves entered ths office “of 2 Liquor Stores Robbed™ | terday are Joseph Kennedy, secretary of the association; Herbert Laudick, and Harry Bolotin, night I got a package of fruit who ran a store told me she was| © Traced by License Sicanoff & Sons. Inc, 1415 8. About 11 minutes later a youth freasurer of the businessmen's group. cake from Georgia. I spread it sorry the war was over. She sald] He was traced down and af-ly,. pioer prwy : entered the Cut Rate Liquor remastered ee me ————ar rea e377 |as far as It would go with the she never made so much money rested through his car license ite River Pkwy, last night and Store, 813 N. Illinois St. and 6 Gi | A d guys there.” lin. her life" number, jotted down by a sus. Carried away three cases of fifths into iow Frank Edwards (6 Girls, Armed Ginga Pig Lior ro EE to Fp SE e clerk, rs. Ralph Helms, . y : U whipped his wheelchai move om on |and half-case of Scotch fifths. | - With Mistletoe, RUDY whipped his’ wheelchair

asked him to show proof he was WH around. ‘hospital to another for five years check for him. ont| The liquor, said Manager Ed21 the youth pulled a gun and | h “I was angry at everyone when/UYIng to save that arm. It| Inspector Wood sald Colwelllyin Marburg, 25, had been pur demanded she “hand over the le or. Kiss the Mayor - ns [ee om I was in the hospital first” he d/dn't work out. He asked them|told them he had tried to get .,,eaq- for distribution to ems money.” He took $130 and fied.| : ’ | ere eee eerie | said. “I used to play tennis and '©. Amputate. They did. He has jobs but found it difficult because|,)oyeeq at a Christmas party this At 9:50 p.m. a nervous bandit! . THE CHRISTMAS spirit got{ - - 1 » |swim and dance. 1 was crazy AP artificial arm and hand now.|of his age and criminal record. |setarnoon. Pulled a, rusty .32-caliber revolver R. W. (Rags) Mitchell out of control in City Hall today.| This Is a Merry Yule, about those things. At first, mB po in business for my be The latter began. In Joos whan aa th 4. burglary i 3 he Sold See on Fred W. Hass, clerk in the . , , J “/he was sentenced to months|stein Market, . > Ace Package!Liquor Store, 2624|. Charges Defamation oar a viea Senay ed He Declares I anmere ry Always made ex. self in Brunswick, Ga. Motor re-ijn the Indiana Boys School at|last night included two cases of E. 10th St. | ~ | A $100,000 suit against Frank gon ePTeC OF HN Ko gave (Continued Fro “age Ome) | l,i 00 ‘ building. I feel - perfectly 00d pjainfield on a larceny conviction|ale, seven half-cases of beer, $25 The flustered bandit dropped Edwards, Indianapolis radio com- ga! Feeney at the eave “even in prison” he could make, “I'q walk a few steps with the about things. |in Washington, Ind. He has also|/in cash and a quantity of food. several bills while stuffing $100 p\antator, for defamation of char- Christmas auction last Saturday Dis life: worth while. He did so, artificial limbs, and they'd tell me/ SGT GALLARD bas ‘esti Served time for. armed robbery, Burglar- jimmied locks of the from the cash register. into his nN night on the Circle. by submitting to scientific ex- you're doing fine, and I'd say to studying languages and hopes he forgery and five years in the In: Modern Glass Co., 802: E. North pocket and ordereds the clerk to ACter, was filed today in the Mar- gat way, six women employees Periments at the risk of his life. myself ‘What a joke? éan do something with them: But diana State Prison after convic-|8t., and obtained $100 in cash. pick’ it up for him. He took a lon Circuit Court. of Ry? City Ce Ep | In one, Boy exchanged his| “But afterwhile I saw there first—he's to be out of He. hos. tion in 1040 of cracking 21 In-| TE fifth of whisky and fled. Mr.| The action was brought bY arnieq with a sprig of mistletoe blood with that of a child leu- | was no use being angry. It wasipital in a few weeks and he's dlanapolis safes with four other U, S. Population Soars —— Hass sald the \bandit overlooked Randall W. (Rags) Mitchell Who arched on the Mayor in his office kemia victim. ” |dragging me down. I went to the headed for Florida. men. WASHINGTON, Dec, 23 (UP) The fourth 'holdu also named, the Universal Broad-|y,, | “I submitted because I wanted museum and parks and the 200. “I'm going..to take this old, Judge Robert C. Baltzell de: The population of the United p was at casting Co. Inc. and the Frank "8 to help those more unfortunate|1t wasn't so bad.” | wheelchair, hook it on a barge ferred sentence until an Investi- States has passed the 150 million

3:40 a. m. Two customers pulled Fehr Brewing Co., as co-defend- than 1,” he said Th ’ " v A ’ V TRN , . { e Catalog of Warrant Of- sh. s go. Oh, brother!”igation by probation authorities. mark—a new record. a gun on Donald Kesling, clerk in ants. TAKING TURNS, and passing "py ." 0" 4oked whom he|—— 8 © Warram Or-and Sah. lets § : 8 yer . <

the Toddle House, 2423 N. Me-| The broadcasting company op- the wjétietos on hand to Rand thought more unfortunate than > ridian St. and asked: erates Radio Station WISH, which ach gave the Mayor a quickie ~ © 00, prisoner.

“Do you know{ what this is?” carries Mr. Edwards’ news broad- Kiss as he sat at his desk, and © ne sick and dying, of course,” STRAUSS SAYS:( SPECIAL GIFT BOND BOOTH—=FIRST F L OOR ) oe :

They then ordered hifn to “hit/casts. The brewing company, Wished him a merry Christmas. |, = 0. the floor,” and stepped over the With main offices in Louisville, ton Efi tyor handled the Siiua Boy said he did not know he & Ee : ™ oo ‘counter to the cash register, KY. is a sponsor of the commen- flustered Mh the girls, wit < was going to be freed until yes-| = _ staking about $24. ___. ltator mee BY ert FA TIOOTE He IAAI the] mr we tet Se —— ve ge * CERN

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Ex-Convict Seized : | lieved “I would ever see the outN a MN NS

Mr. Edwards libeled “the good {side again.” The abortive holdup attempt at name, character and reputation” g

. | Unable to SI we Page Links ae ol of Mr. Mitchell in a broadcast on Pontiff A eal | “Last night,” he sald “I didn't : 0 ®t. resulted In the cap-iine evening of Nov. 7. | | 1 much. I kind of exture of ex-convict Charles Eatons, 1 jsleep . was kind of ex Fremont Hotel. Eaton was freed) Alleged Quotation |eited.

recently after serving 10 years Ine lengthy complaint embod- & | d B | Boy said he would not marry of a 25-year sentence in Michi- fed an alléged quotation from Mr. again “If I can help it. He ‘gan City State Prison for armed Edwards’ broadcast as follows: | |planned to spend the Christmas robbery | he other, Rignt A sepoite) roi (Continued From Page One) holidays with his mother. brother, = {you that a cea! ha en made sister and son, Joseph Jr. 21. A. B. Becker, clerk, said a man whereby a character from Indi- His supreme devotion, declare Boy also has a daughter, Elea-

eth in Oe PT ana Ave., Rags Mitchell, would ridiculous war against Him.” {nor, 23, who was married in June.

store's receipts. Mr. Becker said Df Permitted to support Al Mag-| gs voice was sharper when He said he would not attempt to

asy’ * he “stalled,” because he saw an. Snheimer as Republican candidate, , .ondemned the “counterfeiting| Visit her. v . .. other customer heading for the ra i ' { I don’t want to embarass her store." | The words “a character from of God's plan” on the social pow husband,” he said.

Indiana Ave., Rags Mitchell,” the plane. He warned emphatically] Mrs. Correnti said in New York rx As the customer came to the complaint sets out, are “false, ma- P Pp that she wanted to meet her for4 door the would-be bandit pocketed against the promises _of totali-

J licious and injured the reputation” | {mer husband when he left thel ween Be oa to passers) of Mr. Mitchell and exposed him taxian rijers, |prison, but “I just can't.” I~ by to stop him and two men, | to “publie contempt, ridicule and Plainly speaking of Communist “I'm married again and I have Mickey Pardo, 1033 Church St Shame. leaders, he said: to think about my husband,” she

and Jack Goldman, 1037 8. Capi- “You often place your faith said. tol Ave. ran after the fleeing and trust in “men who are as| When Boy walked from the g rar ues u man. They chased him to a positive in promising to solve/prison in a pouring rain, -there

| . parking lot at Pierson and New i all your problems as they are in- Was no one to meet him. He stood York Sts., where he turned and In Fall on Stairs [capable of effecting the facile alone in the darkness of the small . fired one shot. , {| Leonard .Schoenbachler, 35, of sqlutions which they hold out so station here, a forlorn figure. His \ A merchant policeman, Ollie 1878 Barth Ave, was injured dazzlingly before your eyes. | brother. he said, had promised to + ) i Neely, saw ghe chase and hurried seriously last night when he fell] «1 4aed some of these prob-i 3. Alt / to the parking lot where he found down a flight of steps In the jr. a0 not admit of an Peasy, I don’t know what could have \ Eaton under a car. He was held/lobby of the Murat Theater, po-| solution owing to the very limi-| happened, he said. ; on a pre-robbery charge. (lice reported today. | tations of human nature. Re-|: But as he was about to catch a ) & | —ee Mr. Schoenbachler, a labora- go,ve then, this faith and trust] sr ned NE Ee ae Ie Burglars Fail to Get [tory assistant at the Indianapolis in the first place for the promises poard his cepont sister and : (Power & Light Company's Hard-| ot God, who does not deceive.” | . p Cash, Set Fire to Bank ing st. Piant, received deep face 1; the ‘social field. he said “the|™ AL) wept sllently as th WOODLAND MILLS, Tenn, | lacerations when he crashed «qivine ima. f man” ‘been | wept silently as they emA ‘ ge of man” has been braced the freed man. Dec. 23 (UP)—Edgar Bramham,| through a plate glass door during replaced by the “false notion of] nn remeron ; a president of the Woodland Mills| the fall. a man whose conscience is a law . i by. rr -.....Bank, sald today that burglars, He was reported in. serious ynto—himsetf,” who 18 his" own Act to Avert Strike |< rege AH er . Who broke into the bank added in-{condition at. Methodist Hospital, jegisiator: brooking no control”[ ' ST. LOUTS “Per. 23 (UP) L Tre LH sult to injury. : where he was taken after the The Pope began his address at Leaders of the CIO Communica- be (Tia NENT] // When they failed to find any accident. 3:45 a. m. (Indianapolis Time) tions Workers met with Gov. For- [| important money early yester- Mr. Schoenbachler, a company land spoke for 35 minutes in the rest Smith today in a last minute - | day, they set fire to the bulld-/official sald,’ was one of the consistorial hall of the Vatican effort to avért a strike of 50,000 oa , IT) nd ing. All the records, notes and firm's guests at their annual palace, where 20 solemn cardinals Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. : ‘ : pecurities were destroyed. Christmas party. gathered. |employees in six states. (TTT a PITTS TT TET rrr Pre py VT TTT PPP i To A 4 ( : RN ” . t . 2 - = ; SA U RDAY) ’ 1 > ) i « . HHH 24) ! J | | ; vo ; | \ [ | MERRY CH RISTMAS! 1 | 4 fit g \ } J YX | . + - ni ‘ Yo T— - ‘ Li A Ww 79 _—all goods purchased up to 4 o'clock— “ : ) Lin Fr iy 0 swe [0 will, of course, be delivered in ample time . Jil . \ S C ’ Riley 2333 \ , for Christmas. 241 MASS. AVE. . . 2 ; La A LAST DAY MEMO!—Strauss Gift : one L AA Vv CITY-WIDE DEUVERY 4 Bonds—and Dobbs Hat Certificates {with ; * ee et . - Co / \ miniature hat boxes and miniature hats). : 4 : d There will be extra services in the gift bond booth (First Floor) ra / § di 0. | ( ; to meet the days business in a short day! . CE i: I . ii i ; | \ i il Hii : . ; ; ! i : k, G ’ LUN - I tt i Ah HAN fii a S$ 1] S ; c Ln 5 TH y @: 3 . « iA i Ril | Jail Ili! il i a ll il il iN . atl y | i i am i. his TRA - S. - & B 0 "yy : - E " 4 FR dl i ry nr ; ) a : : Ek wi ! A A » " - t is . i «i 4) i mie. a / z ; 2 , : > a i ha i Wo 3 > T

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