Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 January 1950 — Page 11

he sought a night's lodging. The well-dressed, wavy-haired blond youth had been under suspicion for some time, according to Indianapolis Detective Bgts. Eimer White and Thomas Naumsek, who collaborated with State Police Detective Sgt. James Osborne in making the arrest. Placed on Probation Eicher was placed on probation; Dec. 5, 1949, when a two-to-five| year prison sentence was suspended in Criminal Court 1, where he was convicted on a charge of second-degree burglary

In his confession, Eicher said ; . the crimes were committed during|

the last three years in Indianap-| olis and surrounding small towns. Police so far have been unable to trace disposal of the auto accessories, clothing, electrical appliances and radios Eicher said he took, in addition to about! $10,000 in cash from 70 safes | When arrested, Eicher sald he possessed only 30 cents, Police] said he had with him a collection | of burglar tools, including punches, drills and other equipment, The joking, smilingly un. worried youth said he spent the money in gay night life, hy Names Accomplice { He implicated an accomplice! etill at large, in several burglaries, but said he committed most of them alone. BEicher's largest haul, he sald, was $5000 worth of clothing from several breakdns at Ready ~- to - Wear - Department Store, 2863 Clifton Ave.

A list of safe-cracking jobs top

which he confessed included: Money, Inc, 535 N. Pennsylvania St, on’ Aug. 21, 1947, $1000. Senate Coal Co. 1402 N. Senate Ave., on Dec. 26, 1947, $928. Western Fuel Co., 452 N. Bel. mont Ave. oh Mar. 10, 1948, $600. Polar Ice & Fuel Co. 1001 KE. 29th St., on June 15, 1949, $1100. Maplehurst' Dairy, Maywood, on June 21, 1949, $1800,

Utility Dividend | The board of directors of the! Indiana Gas & Water Co. has de-| clared a dividend of 30 cents per| share on common stock, payable!

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> SHAY as amid Indiafiets ouistanting Youhg man or 145.41 the conference of the Indiana Junior Chamber of Com-

R . Roberts’ work as president of the Indiana Town and Country ; Administrators Association and as president of the Evansville

the judg- pistol when police chased and shot at a “peeping Tom" here last week. \ ;

United States Junior Chamber of KILLED ON IND. #4

National Citizens Commission for turned on Ind. 44 west of here.

OAK WILT TAKES TOLL LAFAYETTE, Jan. 28 — Indi ber crop may be damaged againj, i)". ghemyville,

this year by the dread oak wilt

disease. x Dr. J. C. Carter of the Illinois tire blowout, state police said.

which invaded northern IndianaInd. last year, should be taken. James Moore,

From now on all the bad news comes at once for local utility users. c— The city this week inaugurated | MUD HELPS NAB SUSPECT combined water-electric power CLAY CITY, Jan. 28 (UP)~— billing. A new address-o-graph | A burglary suspect was ca machine purchased by the city by Clay County Sheriff Martin turns out 3000 addresses per | Slack todav hen the rented hour and completes in one day | car he ‘vas driving became the monthly accounting which | mired down on flooded Ind. 58 formerly took seven days. north of here. Roy Love, 35, Indianapolis, was booked on suspicion of robbery after three business jury venire has been called for the| places were broken into last trial of a 72-year-old grandmother night. Sheriff Slack said little charged with the slaying of her; jot was taken by the burglars. grandson. Love's companion escaped, The trial of Mrs. Ida Sturrock| sheriff Slack said, but Indianwill open tomorrow. Mrs. Stur-| apelis police have been asked rock is accused qf shooting her| gor information on his partner. grandson, Roscoe’ Owings, 31,| Monroe County, last July 2 atipy ve WINANCE FIRMS

Moore, also 14, rural Rushville.

CALL SPECIAL JURY BEDFORD, Jan. 28—A special

of Bedford. HUNTING MORE WATER

to discuss ways and means of| Virginia ‘and Illinois.

obtaining more water. | The

ginning Wednesday,

Co. workers home the same day.|City. Source of the shortage was not| immediately identified, but Mayor!

repairs,

{

vious administrations with fail-|

large industries, which allowed qe, j Emmett McManamon.

x a fg ed 2 » \ r é " v I v SER . Chambers Offers

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To Take Lie Test

Relations With Hiss WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 (UP) — Ex-Communist Whittaker Chambers offered tonight to take an FBI li detector test to refute “scuttiebutt rumors” that there WAS som “peculiar”. in his relations with Alger Hiss. Mr. Chambers made. the offer ng a radio interview, iss, a former State Depart-|

ment official, was convicted by a

RUSHVILLE, Jan. 28 (UP)—|the Department for transmission recently was named as the In| A Shelbyville woman was killed to Russia by Mr. Chambers. He diana member to serve on the/isday when an automobile over- was sentenced this week to five

State police said the victim was| Mr. Chambers was told that Cleo Antle, 35. In fair condition|there were a number of stories at Shelbyvillt's Major Hospital “that have attained national ciri "|were Elvira Robbins, 50, driver culation in scuttlebutt fashion.” ana's $2 million annual oak lum-| 4») "oor and Mary Parshey, 32,

The accident was caused by a in a mental institution; that he is

at Purdue University preventive today in the head-on collision of Mr. « measures against the disease,(two trucks south of Falmouth, these rumors as- stories “assidu-

15, Rushville, died In the accident, which hap-}, . . : San ned on a county road. Hospital-|tarium of any sort, period,” Mr.| : pe Y Wark, [Chambers said. “I almost never Spends Money ‘God's Way’

14, Rural Glenwood, and Gilbert/touch hard liquor.

ROLLS 7 DAYS INTO ONE LOGANSPORT, Jan. 28 |ized here were Athol P. Lewark,

her home in Bartlettsvilie, north yew CASTLE. Jan. 28 (UP)—| { The purchase of five finance firms, {in this vicinity was announced) - NEW CASTLE, Jan, 28 — City| today by the Interstate Finance officials met with business and Corp. Evansville, which operates industrial representatives today 54 offices ‘n Indiana, Kentucky,

corporation bought the The New Castle reservoir, fed National Finance Co. and the by four wells, nearly ran dry this| American Security Co., both of week during the wettest January New Castle. Other firms pur-“on-Weather Bureau records. Be-/chased were the American Se- AA HW the water|curity Co. Greenfield, the City nc A- H. Wiese. shortage closed schools at Friday Finance Co. Richmond, and the) noon and sent Sterling Window | Neighborhood Finance Co. Gas Judge Kern to Speak

BRAZIL, Jan. 28 (UP)—Roy|

federal court jury in New York jot lying under oath when he said he never stole secret papers from

|years' imprisonment,

| Listed were rumors that the ex{Communist spy was once placed n Fr |a heavy drinker and that there Pe {was something in his relations|

pathizers.”

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Natural History Survey, Urbana, 4 “ ‘ : Nl, warned ol fn ohio fbi One youth was killed and two VI Hiss “that has not come to Mrs. Walter P. Morton, chairman of decorations, and Mrs. the Indiana Arborists Conference others were injured seriously| ©" Onis nie Lyman Thompson, Red Cross canteen service chairman, are making : ambers characte

plas for uy Sun. Marshall dinner of the Indfiantpalia Red Cross i” “| Chapter Feb. 9. They are looking over a part of the decorations ously spread by Mr. Hiss’ sym: Chich will be used in the National Guard Armory, 2015 S. Pennsyl-

“I have never been in a sani-| vania St., when the ‘wartime Chief-of Staff visits here.

{five or six glasses of Five vr Tavern Owner Offers to Aid

| “The whole truth about my] (friendship with Alger Hiss was {placed before the jury.” | ———— ————— a ——

Electric Men To Meet Feb. 9-10

3-Year 'Overnight Guests’ Family of 10 Given Shelter in 1947

Stays Long Enough to Embarrass Town CATASUQUA, Pa. Jan. 28 (UP)—A hotel proprietor offered to

The 17th annual meeting of the pein this little town today in a problem of etiquette—what to do with Indiana Chapter, Western Sec-|3 family that moved into a public building as “overnight” guests tion International Association ofianq gtayed for more than three years.

Electrical Inspectors, will be

- On Oct. 21, 1946, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Kratzer and their eight

Thursday and Friday, Feb. § and cpjiqren moved into the building for the night.

[10 in the Severin Hotel. { A men's luncheon Thursday will despite the efforts of the borough Be Sanowed by 3 JK Orrin council to get them out. ‘ i . + We DE '| Today, the seven councilmen [sales manager of the Esterline announced with pleasure that Angus Co. Indianapolis. {John Camizzi, 50, proprietor of a Ted Campbell and his orchestraly,rk, Pa. hotel, offered to find

will play for a dinner dance ats home for the family and also

(7:30 p. m., concluding the first 4 jon for Mr. Kratzer, an unem|day’s activities. ployed schoolteacher. Reports of committees will be Wasn't Too Bad {followed by election of officers Friday. ’

{V. Bruce, chairman, Bruce Ben-|the offer.

Robert his interest.

Klaiber,

Goodwin, Carl

{borough councilman.

‘Before Bar Group

Spends ‘God's Way’

| the water company to tap their!

No ‘Nurse Marries | SCHOOL UNINSPECTED

| VALPARAISO, Jan. s—ar- Lifelong Job of

|thur Snider, area inspector of the

|Indiana Fire Marshal's office, yes- Helping Cripples

| “BE THRIFTY IN FIFTY”

|terday said no inspection was| [made by his department of the,

| Mr. Snider said the building] {was on his list for inspection, and | a lifetime patient. a {probably would have received a Mr, Combs, 22, sai

I PERTH AMBOY, N. J: Jan. 28 {Garyton grade school prior to the| (yp) _Ben Combs married his! {furnace explosion there Monday. .... today, and his nurse got

“I do”

CORNER WASHINGTON AND DELAWARE S78.

They have been there since,

nett, A. Lee Clifford Jr. Robert} But Mr. Camizzi made it plain Clifford, H. L. Dickinson, Ralph/that it was the children who drew

Price, R. A. Rearden, I. W. Strong] The new development brought a sigh of relief from Mr. Kratzer's

The Kratzers moved into the {building as the “overnight” guests| |of the Red Cross, which rented John W.-K . i ithe structure on a $1-a-year lease. | | John W. Kern, presiding judge| Recently, the lease was revoked, Harold Meadows sald it was Gribsby, 45, who served 11 years or the Tax Court of the United the Red Cross forced to move out, —will partake of a gigantic box “partly mechanical.” One of the of a life sentence for murder be- gates, will address the meeting well pumps was closed down for fore heing ordered released bYiof the Indianapolis Bar Associa-! | federal court, will know next week tion, Wednesday night in the MaMayor Meadows -charged pre- whether he must stand trial ~~'n.|rott Hotel.

Cay Circuit Judge Robert Stew-

ET I — " a ——

of five children, said he hoped to

{have a job for Mr. Kratzer with-

in 10 days. “I don’t know what it'll be yet, but I'll get it,” he said. Mr. Camizzi came to this country from his native Italy when he was six years old. He also owns a tavern at Lancaster, Pa. “I made my money through

Mr. Kratzer, who thought his liquor, but I spend it in God's | “municipal home” wasn’t too bad way” he said. Members of the meeting ar- “because some people in Europe S———— rangements committee include R.[live worse than this,” jumped at

Republicans Jump Gun For Lincoln Rally

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 (UP) -=The birthday anniversary of

[Abraham Lincoln will be cele {brated by Republicans this year as never before, And a week earlier, too.

On Feb. 6 in a sports arena here the party faithful—and any others willing to put up $2.20

and the heat, light and water dis-| supper and be entertained by a connected. But the family stayed.| “name” band, Hollywood person-

alities, drum and bugle corps, a

The Kratzers used a two-burner church chorus, barber shop quarRefreshments at 5:30 will belo] stove for heat and cooking, |tets, and two-minute speeches. ing to insure an adequate Water ,.4 today heard arguments on|followed by dinner at 6:15 p. m. carried water in buckets from a supply for New Castle, which uses , habeas corpus motion present-(The regular meeting will follow. gasoline station and bathed in|torney General J. Howard Menearly 2 million gallons daily.\eq py Grigsby's attorney. He Floyd W. Burns is chairman of neighbors’ bathtubs, The city might have run dry this| ,, inoned his ruling for one week, (the program committee. | week had it not been for several; oy er at the request of Atty. c—

Anyone can attend. Even At-

|Qrath, former chairman of the

Mr. Camizzi, himself the father | Democratic National Committee,

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