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~ 60th’ YEAR—NUMBER 359 dd a ee MONDAY, ‘MARCH 6, 1950 y a ‘Botered as g Second-Class Matter at Postotfice - Sees

Indianapolis, Indiana. Issued Daily

! Fumes. oe i Athlete and Girl i

Auto at Her Hore:

nce ow Deal |@ mle om onl in Before Hypo, Sc : ool

- Marion Jessup and Karol Hardy Found - 7 $ i By Her Stepfather; Leaking Monoxide Blamed

Lawrence, were found dead in the youth's car early today. |

They were believed to have been poisoned by carbon in. voc Toiies New Watts Trial Starts Miners Expect Officials Study M Move

monoxide leaking from the exhaust of the automobile into

the interior.

Marion Dwight Jessup R. R.- 13, Box 369, and Miss Mar. 6 — Dr. Hermann N.

‘Karol Hardy, 4529 Payton Be St., Lawrence, were discovered seated side by side at 6 a. m. today in a car in the driveway of Miss Hardy's home. _ They were found by Rus Peters, Miss Hardy's stepfather, when- he left the house to go to =» work. , Calls Firemen’ Unablé to rouse theni, Mr. Peters called deputy sheriffs and the Lawrence Fire Department emergency squad. The, squad applied a resuscitator. A General Hospital physician = then attempted for 40 minutes to revive the couple with oxygen.

‘Something “Snapped, A 20-year-old athlete and his girl friend, 16, both of Never Intended to = otis Sm

United Press Stat Correspondent |

MANCHESTER, N. H., i

To Consider Time Off Fob ie As ‘Spring Vacation’

Holiday Beginning Mar. 31 May Be Dropped; Backsto-Work————— Pupils in Muncie, Frankfort Return to Classes

dead. | Indianapolis schools will be open for business tomor-

’ Sander calmly testified today, : ‘that an “obsession” forced him to pump air into a cancer| $¢ patient he believed already oo

esometmg mapped in med p ! i . {was ‘Dr. Sander’s explanation of . Ww k H Gains Momentum row morning. {the air injection that brought him , : " i ey ph ne ’ \ Under New Contract J. Dwight Peterson, president of the board of school murder” of the - patient, Mrs. PITTSBURGH, Mar. 6 commissiofiers, made this announcement today following Abie ie 4 bis | B® (UP) — Signing of a new a meeting with officials of the city school system. own star witness, maintained | : i ‘wage-boosting contract sent! “All Indianapolis schools will open tomorrow,” Mr, |Mrs. Borroto was dead of cancer| more than 154,000 United! . | Peterson said. - :

{when he plunged his hypodermic, Mine Workers back to work “We. have received assure lin the nation’s soft coal pits whers {1 ope. ance from our dealers that

The youth and girl were pronounced dead by Deputy Coroner Dr. Joseph Jewett. Both died of" accidental suffocation from car-

wd ; of her long suffering that might; ‘as local unions met for formal re he action will bon monoxide, according to Dr. 2 & |have touched me off and made action on the settlement. In| Producer Predicts Era ED aifected by | soa ate Jewett, ? me do something that doesn’t ‘keeping _with ‘UMW tradition, ‘ : CF tending night classes in the syse Car Out of Gas Miss Karol Hardy make sense,” he said. thousands of the miners refused Of Understanding’ . ng nig: y

The motor of the car, a 1934 Ford coupe, was not running when the bodies were discovered by Mr. Peters. All the windows were closed, the ignition key was turned on, and the car was out of gas.

The youth and. his date left. the house at 7 p. m, last night "to go to a movie. Mr. Peters and his wife, Mrs. Flora Peters, went to bed before they returned. Young Jessup was the son of Oscar and Hallie Jessup. The family lives on a farm on 75th St. east of Indianapolis. Was Star Athlete : A May, 1949, graduate of Lawrence Central High, he had been working with his father on the farm. For three years he starred “fn-pasketball and Tootbam Tor His" school. The youth was forward on the

: ° before he had completed his Lewis appeared | It vai 3 Squeaky lntle basketball team, and captain in <% Marion Jessup [ha rag ppd Mr. Phinney ores reported they had ri ee i ne ity desk his senior year. -He played end —— { Cantt Tell Wh | sold out of sandwich meats. telling newsmen that his United | . Can you tell me, sir va th Sootball Sn a 2 on Ce 1 der Weath er lana ve aT tel us why?"| In Western Pennsylvania, 12.‘ Mine Workers were “naturally will schools ‘open tomorLawrence High track team ang | persisted Mr. Phinney. | 500 of the district's 50,000 miners! ‘grateful over the settlement.” | row?” played first base with the base- Du@ Tomorrow oy TIGNL” _ repeated . the; jFeturhed. rn hl any Sid __Adds to Fuel Cost — ae Hight, bright and. all mec © etball conch; 8.0; LOCAL TEMPERATURES — “pinany however, Dr. Sander tonight and full production willl The agreement, which may set x

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(Sniz) Bruce, called young Jessup! *a fine boy and a wonderful ath-| lete.” He said the youth was a] hard worker and ‘had a "Workh of endurance.” In addition to his parents, he! se

: ; ’ 53 000 “pupils in the city’s 82 eleS d by a sister, Mrs. Ruth req tirer— " +entionto_kill-Mrs.—Borrote. | la pay increase of 70 cents a day. ! ie Survived DY a Indianapolis, | DE I never told anybody I-killed-Mrs:H [ta-118,000-minters hack: —raising their daily wage to! mentary and seven high schools. ahd a brother. Donald." both of -Colder weather late tomorrow Borroto.” Indiana Pits Open Sy Normally, the vacation period Indianapolis. : ; fe ri eure hang In "pr. Snider said he recorded the { In Alabama, delay in- trans- Industry payments to the in local Shoots aroula hegin at Miss Hardy was ranked among : tumbli the Weather air injection on Mrs. Borroto's! {mission of the agreement kept union's health and weifare fund| ne. e school day, the scholastic leaders «in her Ey . 3 case history because “I think it's Mar, 21.

Junior Class at Lawrence Central. ‘She transferred there from Tech! High 1'; years ago when the] to 62 today. and

turn on later shifts. fits again. Ss ; - % eH wg pot checks - throughout the family moved from Indianapolis oy of 42 tonight. Temperatures FaoLy ator for. the. Debate Illinois’ 24,000 UMW members In return. the operators ob- western Indiana coalfield showed to Lawrence, tomorrow will reach between 55 tatic Sasn the air Infection Photos by Liovd B. Walton, Times Staff Photographer.” !were returning. In Indiana all tained a 28-month contract which most Hoosier shaft and strip Miss Yardy" is survived DY 8 wd 80, had been one of the big mysteries Judge George Long , .-. presiding . at second trial. (Other Mines were open except a few :annot.be reopened for- Any-red= mines working today, gi brother, Jack, 19, in addition to Sunday —drivers—crowded Indi 51 the case. photos, Page 3). ‘which had not been inspected. The son before April. 1951. This ap-| Some 2000 members of the Mr, and Mrs. Peters.” ana highways to fish, see the Asked again if he had any in- . “va {back-to-work movement in south- parently assured at. least a year United Mine Workers reported at She was a Past Honored Queen, sights and visit relatives. Hoo- tention of killing. the . cancer.. . — {ern Virginia -and Tennessee was of peace in the soft coal fields. [all the 15 mines in the SullivanSons Daughters, ht a Chureh. | siers traveled from miles around stricken patient, Dr. . Sander State Excuses Three Men (spotty. . Thomas Kennedy, UMW vice Greene County area. Officials at 0 nglew ian agily to watch sea gulls soar lazily over said: | The Ohio Coal Operators “ As- president, announcéd that negoti- a few of the strip mines said | they — ) : » , HTT PFOA C5 Mr. Peters said his stepdaugh- thé Geist reservoir > at Oaklandon. 1 never had any intention to A $i in- AE) havi Toot ty on Lwitl—be shifted here from a the I oy LJ ~ {er had Tot been dating voung. KilT_MTs._Bofroto.” _~ | ce ccep ng. - Jury ere back I pro-| ! Pumping au, lb Bue T. a ig Sous Ils “Did you ever have an “agree-| {duction and the remainder were YOrk where 13 weeks of bargain-/but the rest ordered coal cars Pp Ca Ss Case Against ment to kill Mrs. Borroto?” asked Def Murder C Columb expected to open at the after- | ing sessions have failed to pro- from the railroads at Linton, an said she would go to the movies| efense in urder Case in Columbus a i | noon-shift—— —tduee—resuits.— He predicted that indication they would ship today. ‘ WIR Dm Jot gh et when the Judy Punciured’ (c ontinued on ‘Bage Sol. —Col. 7), _Then Begins Questioning Others = ] ithe industry would agree “on | The Tallevaale shaft mine, one two stopped in the driveway,! NEW YORK. Mar’ 6 Py—| I d : By DONNA MIKELS, Times Staff Writer Burglars. Obtain $5 ferme Within. few days. hg gin] Ta a, preparatory to Miss Hardy's leav-The defense told the ha Times Index. COLUMBUS, Ind., Mar. 6—The oft-delayed second murder trial From Indiana Central Bans Union Shop [County field that did not work tos feourt jury of six men and siX| About Peaplé ............ 7 of Robert Austin Watts got off to a slow start today in Bartholomew | . . | Other provisions in the new d Mi flicials said Talleydal (Continued on Page 3—Col. 5) housewives today that the gov- Amusements ...........:. 6 County Circuit Court. ana Central College author- contract: i HOT od oes rr nT_T ernment’s case against Judith’ Bridge .................. 4 | . For the second time the 27-year-old former Indianapolis city | of today reposted hy police the! ONE: Elimination of the * ML speetors:yesterduy but: te “hg Defective Flue Causes |Coplon_and_Valentin- Gubitchev'" Comics re] truck driver. Laced. trial for.-his. life~in- the murder of: Mes: Mary’ iy AL approx oi § ia grow Thig afd “able” elatisé Which oper- inspected ‘today and will work tovy was “one “of THIET 16Vée ana not” Crossword .......v.......11 Lois Burne¥ in her North Side home. it hoo! during the Croke/ators charged enabled Mr. Lewis morrow. Of the 9500 UMW mems “South” Si e “House Fire™ conspiracy to commit espionage.” Fashion «.....eiereeeeces 5 Watts was ' attired in —a tight nto the sehool during the week-. . 9 .

a Started questioning Jurors shortly end. An undetermined amount of — Summing-up the defense in the. Inside Indianapolis sessese 9 brown suit, yellow socks and tie damage resulted from a fire which four-week old trial. Abraham Il... Mrs. MaBDREIS .coveresvees 8 iWith-a yellow and brewn handpartially destroyed the home of Pomerantz, attorney for Gu-. Othman ....cveeseevees.. 9 Kerchief stuffed ‘partially into bis

1 periods” for mine disasters to’ I ing the defendant sat with. his in school (ria The Comet Colleries, a small Earl Whitley, 4857 S. Meridian St.. bitchev, told the jury “hot blood Radio ....cseeseiees....18 breast pocket. ; face- resting on-his ‘chin, a tradi-|was ir ht bulding, upout five days a year. strip mine near Linton, reported this morning. does not make for cool reason.” TRUATK .....ovveveensneess 9 | At noon the prosecution had ac-ij0191 mood with Rim. g THREE: ‘A ban on the union

Firemen said. the flames,’ Mr. Pomerdntz

fgniting from a defective flue, de- that the government's case was Sports ...............12, 13 \defense surprised. spectators by ig mew . County prosecutor, ques- ——— - irrioelins pL RY soon as news of the strike settle stroyed the roof and attic of the a “poison gas balloon” which had =~ Weather Map r¥iesesnes sald |accepting without questions. The

house. The second flpor was dam- been “punctured, aged by water and smoke. land disappeared.”

Madison Ave. Business District E Enjoys Rapid Growth Available Now i Bis Hist unt Be, Tis Sle 2

Ample Parking

Space Is Lure By VICTOR PETERSON Parking space by the acres: Room for more than 1000 cars. That is what merchants in the 2700 block Madison Ave. have’ to offér prospective customers, besides a wide variety of merchandise. Here is another of Indianapolis’ “mushrooming and booming suburban business spots shaping up: over the city as it grows from knee pants into long pants with an expanding population. Except for the Standard SuperMarket which pioneered the area : - several years ago, the business establishments for most part have yet to celebrate their first anniversaries. From the. super-highway that is Madison Ave. at this point, the casual‘ observer ‘will - not notice . the number of stores backing the

four along the curb. The busi- New car nosing into the central eral storerooms stood vacant, a a Guarantee Auto Store. Haag first, time. There is the Rieman ‘er University, - Sone Diy, he was “Co of * ness district is; built much like a parking lot they receive addi- poor advertisement -for “those Drug Store aiid a Vonnegut Hard: Appiiance Store -of Ted ‘Rieman = All seat are reserved. in as At DABRIE rm box, hollow in “the center. with tional notice. struggling to hold ground. | ware. These larger, older firms and Ted Spence, so new, that not ; Prices; including tax, are: Ey Mr. Sheol organized hid 3 “Brill and Firms now holding spacé in el [Today . Proprietors of all are sit like mother ducks’ ‘protecting even a window sign ‘adorns the “First floor: $2; 1st bal- - ivestment- th in 1917 Sfter: - Yoke Sts. © = i Brill St. building seem to be well pleased with ‘the business trend| a ‘nest of young.’ | store. = _cony, $1.50; 2d balcony: first. Meadiny the a Cons her ts to he rear admit established. i others, how-land believe a pattern of trade! Jatching into real “businesses: Open since Christmas. the floral 8 : L ve had a hid a Sovgh vey and found the way too -rocky has been established. | are many of the others ventur=-. ee i 6 staried,

“And, mister, do we have 0 a m...48 amplified his answer Le adding |be reached tomorrow. A pattern for settling deadlocked) 15 make up the time?” 11 a. m....48 (that “the very fact she was dead | About 25 per cent of Central ‘negotiations with anthracite pro-| “That's right again, you - 12 (Noon) 51 [gave me assurance I could do her {Pennsylvania's 55:000 miners were 9UCers. will add an estimated 25, gyre do.” Lp m...58 ino harm.” working and the remainder w ere !0 33 cents a ton to the nation’s "Aw, gee whiz, mister.” Under direct examination, Dr.

Indianapolis today enjoyed its cond day of balmy springlike

Cloudy, mild weather today was expected to boost temperatures

and moved out. For a time sev-| . Out front, beside Standard, are Ing into the selling game for the. ACiitinued jn Page 2—Col. 2 RE ne Fool" San hE

{needle into her arm, thus, he con-/ “today. Full production was ex-

| tended, he could not have killed : {her _ to spare her further Suffers... fan ‘adequate supply of ‘coal is [pected within 24 hours. now available, making

g . J ing. 1 pos The back - to - work movement f Endin Strikes sible for us to take this action." {gained momentum by the hour

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“It was just the appearance of! i her face and the remembrance)

| tem. Muncie Pupils Return : "The sudden truce in the 4-week=

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Irrational Behavior “It was an irrational behavior land I don't think I ean explain; iit. I was obsessed to do it”! That was under the friendly - | questioning of his counsel who drew from him the assertion that | Mrs. Borroto was dead when he - - entered. her-Hillsborough County] | | Hospital room last last Dec. 4.

: (work until UMW President John. WASHINGTON, Mar. 6 (UP) {Le Lewis’ telegrams announcing A top coal industry official hoped: the agreement arrived. today that the new contract with With the ‘reopening of the John L. Lewis’ bituminous miners. ong. C00) SIRs Fav loo veplA “mines, railroads and heavy in- would lead to elimination of after part of a week's vacation. dustry, hard-hit by the coal hort- strikes in the soft coal fields. | Others returned to schools at |age, started the clinb. back to ~ George H. Love, chief spokes-: [Frankfort and at several rural juormal man for the Northern and W. est-| schools over the state which had 411, _S.. Steel. which. -had._cut.ern producers, said the. wage, closed -because-of-fuel-shortages. Torro district operations fo agreement signed after nine!

153 per cent, brought its oke pro- months f strik t it: At Ft. Wayie, Rowsver, 4 + C 8s 0 8s es, cour suits The atmosphere changed about! {duction back to normal and of gloom hung heavily for pupils

> a - — of h de and high schools § an hour and a half later when j : turned on the heat in eight of Cost of soft coal termed too els officials Chaney last the state's chief prosecutor, At- Robert Austin Watts arrives at the Columbus Court House the 14 blast furnaces banked. high

Gar. Ow vivsse Page 2 | - | lorney General William L. Phin- jp custody of Sheriff Richard Thayer of Bartholomew County. Stores dammed Regyons for sudden accord eaten the. “annual spring va 4 : 2 ney: vegan Hip Hs exaIRation Mine field stores were jammedn obscure......i... 0. <Page ? Meanwhile, in Indianapolis, a

{with miners’ wives Stocking UP and angry and often fruitless Similar move was being con{their depleted pantries. Credit, par aining offers the industr | sidered. | which some companies had cud its 8 aE real opportunity oy School board officials said they off to strikers, automatically was stability in the last decade.” [ould consider today whether ‘restored. - =

je hoped -naded; that} LEY-N0uid proclaim last week A"bread truck operator in ‘the ey promote “such mutual under-| | Waynesburg, Pa., district said standing that we will do away Gee Whiz— his supplies were exhausted long|with coal strikés in the future.”

: questions designed to send the! [latter to prison for life. | But Dr. Sander maintained his {position that “I knew she was

“You Had an obsession to inject (air into the veins of this poor,

{holding strike-ending meetings. fuel bill. i o

Salles Su) aL Dever Bug any West Virginia Feported 95.400 of It grants the soft coal miners| 35. the spring_vacation for the

[today’s working force to less than boost 2 are boosted from 20 to 30. cents, Meanwhile; all City = Libr 11000, but the rest of the state’sa ton with the promise that the! facilities “will - ra Ti 120,000 miners were expected to re- ‘fund soon will start paying bene-| hours tomorrow.

the duty of every doctor to put down everything done for-every.

Void thi to a patient whéther it has any effect

to—controt- production by calling sudden strikes. | TWO: Limitation of the ‘ ‘memo-

bers in Indiana, 3500 work in Vigo before the recess. =Evan..R. Keck, business man- jmines; Chia

For the most part of the morn- age. “said c Trucks Line Up

discovery of an open window] more than. 50 trucks began lin-

Tthe told the jury Society :.......uv..es.... 4 [cepted a full 12-man jury and the, William Lineberger, . Bartholo- and missing funds.

(Continued on Page $—Col. 3) ing up Saturday morning. as

tioned more th dozen pr - ‘ment—was learned; in order to a a a i — ,, College All-Star ‘Bulgarian Admits | receive coal today.

Women’ 8 ciesiceieninann, 4 imen, however, and the defense | (Continued on Page 3—Col. if “At the Blackhawk mine, near * Basketball Seats Spying for America Terre. Haute, there were 25 trucks

ported how - the Ty Tg pected to come from the tipple. ! ® Today .. . or tomorrow torture prisoners to make. them ‘Meanwhile, coal-short home \ = 2a : : ; is the time to get your ~ confess, pleaded guilty to spying/owners and other users made .. tickets for the charity for the United States in a trial preparations to get by the next basketball game spon- (that started today y in Sofia. few _ few days o on their remaining coal. coal. sored by The Times. .be- oe tween the Indiana College - es Jufiins Coles Thomas D. Sheerin Rites

apolts Olympians.

The charity game wi be Will Be Held Wednesday

March 15 i t rigaach 13 18, the Butler | Civic Leader and ®Get tickets over the | Banker Dies at 65 counter at Marott's down- "Solemn: High Mass for Thomas

town shoe store, in the | D. Sheerin Indianapolis business Union building at Butler | man and civic leader, will .be Hiwersity, at the Olymp- | sung at 9 a. m. Wednesday in the a Auden . gale 2 | St. Joan of Arc Catholie*Church. e | . r _ Butler Fieldhouse . . . or Prue uml Yi hein Cove send a mail order with’ | Mr. Sheerin, who was 65, died check Or, money-order |

2 {last night in St. Vincent's Hosmade out to: “Indiana All-Star Game” and J “He Nv ot Ir, 1330 Central J = = . stamped, addressed ‘en- : [ velope. Send mail orders | Besides “acting as a director

te Sa of the Indiana Bell Telephone Co. Business signs shill are going up in the’ new suburban trading area off the 2700: block Madison Ave,’ = : : wv eo 123 Br Star and trustee. of Citizens Gas &

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