Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1950 — Page 2
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Leopard Sick ~ As Dope Nabs It
Gobbles Up Bait, Crawls Back Into Pit
(Continued From Page One)
Shortridge Furnace Puffs fo ‘a Dead Sones
. Julian
‘ pa sSsageway
the legpard pit. It was all part of
a plan .and a hope
and Zoo Dire had decided to gate to the service in case”
“Mr. Murphy’ Frazier leave opén- the
just
Lies Down Rane
Then He “It couldn't better” said Mr. Frazier Once down in the corridor, the leopard gatuered up his strength for another display of his leaping
‘off
have
prowess. . He bounded onto a l6dge, six feet up--from the floor and fay down 4 ‘A park patrolman- found him there at 2 a. mm. and sounded an alarm Heavily , a r.med"- men rushed to the makeshift boudolr
and slammed the door
Mr. Frazier went down into the gervice entrance a féw minutes later. . As riflemen covered him. he tossed a lariat onto the leopard with a cowboy's skill The. leopard fell to the floor, and came up with a bleeding nose. Mr. Frazier retreated, then approached again from the hack —doaor of the tunnel -
Hind Fool he let fly with a The third time, he leopard’'s back
snares a Three times 30-foot lariat snared one of the
fret Closing a cage door be tween him and the animal, he started tugging Mnally, I got him by the tail, too,” Mr. Frazier said
Mr. Frazier held his anchor fine
--the leopard’'a tail and the lariat
while helpers approached the _bhewildered. silent animal from the front with a sturdy wooden crate They slipped him into it sort of like putting him in an en velope,” Mr. Frazier said Then the zoo keeper latched the barred “door of the crate, and hammered in two 10-penny nails to reinforce the latch ‘just for good measure.” The leopard didn’t object to
captivity again. He lay down in
-the box and tried to go to sleep,
Zoo to be Reopened Mr. Murphy and Mr. Frazier planned to push the beast out of
the packing crate into a cage and
later to his mate that even miss him leopard may
inside the leopard day. There, with apparently didn’t in his absence. the be seen by the public The 200 was to be reopened al noon, for the first time since Sat urday. In his wandering, the leopard had ranged as. far afield as Deep Fork Creek at a point eight miles northeast of the zoo. His foot prints were discovered thers Sunday. Mr. Frazier, ‘who ‘Was 200 keeper at Ft. Worth Tex.. until a few months back, said the leopards will not be allowed out In the open pit until the floor Is lowered and the barrier for spectators is raised. Mr. Frazier said the big cat which leaped from a 20-foot deep pit-and cleared a water moat to escape on Saturday apparently returned to the zoo after midnight Tracks were found the male leopard jumped a fence to re-enter the zoo after an early evening rain had stopped falling.
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Coal Crisis Brings = Threat of Hliness
(Continued From Page One) ably will" he indirect, due to the steel shortage which follows the wake of prolonged coal short
Steet Plants Hard Up.
In Gary, one steel plant wakiie: ported within two weeks of bam
uge for heating than were homes, While some families already were reported doubling up to save fuel,
reported
some industries were considering sharing -their fuel supplies with employees’ families High on the ligt of hard-hit “local businesses Was Marion
County's $250000 greenhousge crop Winter supplies of fresh tomatoes, lettuce, radishes "and cucumbers were threatened Robert Bollinger, president the Marion : County Greenhouse Growers’ Association, said growers reported coal supplies ranging from five—days to three weeks Loss of the crops was narrowly averted only “three weeks ago when Sen. Homer FE. Capehart 30 carloads the local greenhouses, problem is
of
coal for The greenhouse
of
made more difficult, Mr. Bollinger «aid. by the fact that many of’ growers use stokers which
large part of the meager supplies available iz of low grade Reported Safe The utility situation in the city was reported safe for the present. John Kleinhenz, publicity di-
High School rector for Indianapolis Water Co.
ATumnt Association scheduled Tor gal the utility was prepared to
Haturday Curtailment coal
the meeting
spokesmen
was announced of heat shortage prohibits
said
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v ~ . 5 : TUESDAY, FEB. 28, 1850 available. Electric ly means a two-day trip Instead pumps — used in the Washing- of a one-day journey. 00SIers | bln ton St. station. There is no acute coal shortage Riverside water station has a in hospitals of Indianapolis. d C 30-Day Coal Supply -. — The situation could become z Indianapolis on Light acute within a matter of days but (Continued L ous Page One) ‘ Co., 100, is supplementing its voal @ Survey ‘this morning indicated out and said it b requests Mayor’ Francis J proclaimed an emergency and ors curtailment of “unneces<
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30-day coal supply, he said. Fall The institutions, however, have supply with oil ‘burning. Utility all hespitals are receiving suffi- for coal. : Governm
Creek station has a 20-day sup- been battling with inferior grades ply on hand of fuel for the past several weeks. , " hall County, he B spokesmen said essential services, clenticoal or have a sufficient sup-| In Mars . y r
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coal runs out. "However, the utility
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ing its furnaces and sending its’ mated its coal supply at enough perintendents of the six major sary consumption” of coal. NEW YORK 20.000 $mployees home. Another for 30 days. hospitalization centers in the In- A parochial school at South The governmen major plant was reported With J Citizens’ las and Coke Utility dianapolis. area | Bend Rioawr: amd. vy Publis £ase today $n barely. enough coal to last the reported a 30-day coal supply for: - No Immediate-Danger oer TU Ye Valent: a rel ! ; y to y ‘ alentin Gubit week rated uid, Bperations. The ADDI + AC-| Central State Hospital” which mo utilities, the big Northern Chief Prosec (Gene rally speaking indus cording 0 Assistant anager i ; was in better shape tor coal to Dean T. Burns, can be stretched normally Sune. a carload of coal Indiana Public Service Sou. at ley sais the |
rest as soon the jury the f Miss Coplon’s Mar. 4 when with Gubitchev
with ofl although use of oil in gas every day. has inaugurated a cur- Hammona . and . the Crawfordsmanufacture increases- costs {ailment program and faces no Ville municipal plant requested Train Service immediate danger of an acute 8nd received authority to reduce Although passenger train serv- coal shortage. Dr. Max A. Bahr, powgr.deitveries 25 per ecnt. ice wis at its lowest ebb In many superintendent reported The Indiana Public Service
vears for Indianapolis; essential “We have about a 10-day supply ( ‘ommissiof” announced that elec- by ras Be) freight services were being main- on hand and a carload Keeps tric utilities now may ask per= ork’s streets tained. Railroads »rving the city trickling in every day or so,” Dr. Mission to reduce their power de. Battles reported that despite dropping of Bahr stated. “The coal we are liveries by any amount. Defense at
over every incl the month-old the jury ever ! which the govt Coplon stole fr
some coal-burning freight and getting: is an Inferior grade and Institutions in Fair Shape switching engines, loads were be- we are having some trouble with! Chairman Thomas R. Hutson ing hauled by doubling up on the it but there is no immediate ¢
i o of the state Emergency Fuel big oil-burning tocomotives. danger of folks out here getting : 12 Currently there are 39 fewer cold.” Commission said all 22 state in-
passenger trains in and out of Dr. Bahr added that the big stitutions were in “fair” shape, J06NL Sieg at ® 881¢ the "city than during normal auditorium had been shut off be- with the coal supply most critical ’ The Ian on months just preceeding the cure causc of the. coal shortage and at the girls’ school in Clermont, taken from M rent crisis; cand more curtailment church and theater activities had . 1 cars of coal w was interruptec can- be expected, réported W. H. been .emporary stopped. He also He said 41 cars of coal were re- : . errup
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McKitrick, Federal Jud;
superintendent of In- said heat-saving short cuts were ceived by the state yesterday,
‘dianapots—nion—Rallways. being taken throughout the —bigl —The truck mines signing new #& finally took al) While passeriger business is off plant contracts with the UMW were the to studv overs some 25 per cent, Mr. McKitrick Six-Day Supply Mt. Pleasant, Spring Hill and Oak which should r
said, the real pinch of the cut in| General Hospital had a six-day (Grove shafts near Terre Haute, train service is being felt by those supply of. coal this morning and 'he Sunshine and White Ash who must ride the trains. In more coal was en route, Dr. mines near Bicknell, and the Buck other words, with the 39 passen- Charles W. Myers reported. He, Creek and South Side mines near ger trains off passengers must too, complained that the in- Linton. double up on trains still operat- gtitution had been getting a cheap Harry Brattin, secretary-treas-ing. grade of fuel which is hard to urer of the Truck Mine associa-1-Day Round Trips Hard burn. He did not anticipate any tion, estimated 2000 tons would he It is twice as hard to get to acute emergency, however, unless Mined today and it would be “in Chicago and back_in the same all incoming supplies are com- the bins of people who need it" by . day as it used to he the official pletely cut-off. tonight. i explained. The same is true in ————————— Trucks “began lining up at the cases where people want to make LITTERED WITH FLOWERS mine tipples last night. Most of quick trips to St. Louis, Cincin- There are 500 flowering plants the output will be trucked to coal« nati or Louisville. They must Mt. Rainer National Park, short communities in the Terre Haute area, Mr. Brattin said.
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