Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 September 1950 — Page 2

. PAGE 2 ; .. pr Death Again Rides At Wheel of Taxi . Offcil Says Drivers Get Physical Tests

.. The second case in a week involving the death of a taxi driver” at the wheel today was followed by official assurance that public Passenger drivers are required to take periodic physical examina . tions, ne ¥ A heart attack was fatal yesterday to Fred L. Kern, 43, of. 2080 ‘College : Ave, driver for United Taxi Co. A similar attack one week earlier was fatal to a Red Cab Co. driver,’ Mahlon Leach, Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicle official, reported that taxi, trolley and other public! vehicle operators take physical examinations once a year. - | A preliminary autopsy per formed last night by Dr. H~-T.' Craven revealed Mr. Kern prob-! ably died of a heart attack. . | Sheriff's deputies reported Mr Kern was driving west on Ray-| Marion County finance committee. mond St. at 3:30 p. m. when he was stricken. The cab veered to the left and collided head-on with a car driven by C. B. Edwards,

59, of 1506 LeGrande Ave. ur 3 Plane Crashes

Edwards was unhurt. " Nose Injured

A 15-year-old taxi Patricia Kirkham, Ave., suffered a nose injury.

Mr. Kern died in the hands of) a 21-year-old housewife who rushed outside when she heard the crash. Mrs. Richard Scott By United Press 2116 Hobart St, found Mr. Kern Thirty-seven persons were killed in the taxi driver's seat, with his in three widely-separated plane head slumped forward. She re- crashes within 24 hours. ported he was still breathing. and The worst accidént occurred off she held his head straight for Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands mearly 10 minutes until deputies where a four-engined Navy transarrived. port plunged into 1200 fathoms of The accident occurred near Ho- water and killed all 26 Navyl, bart St. personnel aboard. ‘ Mr. Kern drove for United Taxi! Another Navy craft crashed about 15 years, and cab officials|into Puget Sound yesterday, killsaid he had no chargeable acci-|ing seven men. The plane, a fourdent. He was a World War II/engined patrol bomber, sank into veteran. : {500 feet of water near Whidbey Last week, Tuesday, Claude Island 50 miles north of Seattle. _ McClain, 51, a Red Cab driver,! Two men and two women were De ta, bounds more suffered a fatal heart ‘attack killed near Bland, Va. yesterday , Pennsylvania state law while driving downtown, A pedes- when their single-éngined Beech- “,.. po 1.0. 0.0 nosed his truck trian, Henry F. Hughes, 70, was craft plane crashed into a field. | odo" 0 0 a hill and started killed by the runaway taxi. A ‘Plane Explodes, Burns 10 roll down tie | { grate at between young woman passenger was un- The 26 dead in the Kwajalein go and 10 miles per hour. As| hurt. icrash included 19 passengers and : { { ‘ fane ‘went he picked up speed his foot feit seven crewmen. The p for the Brake pedal. i

| down just after it took off. from J the Kwajalein lagoon on a rou- |, ‘ait TL WESC RE, FO |tine flight to the Far East. The... 0 0. warning buzz from plane exploded and burned briefly the safety device that was supbefore it sank. 'posed to tell him when his air { A witness to the Puget Sound ran low. {crash said the bomber was in a] giant load of steel and ‘ve{tight spin when he spotted it Just 1,10 had become a 38-ton batterbefore the ship hit the water. ling ram. There was an auto on 'n “It ak almost immediately,” po right. He couldn't run off ; # ‘he said. Narriman Sadek Heads The Navy still was hunting for EE al, ere was Another in For Riviera, Farouk [PCatibie survivors but vetually al tuous weaving in and out, hop- | ; ‘ing to miss the traffic. GENEVA, Switzerland, Sept. 20{ The plane was on a routine, pr. pie le tham all (UP) —— Pretty Narriman Sadek training flight from Sand Point last one left Switzerland today on a road/Naval Air Station here. It was - The wild-runnin truck struck that leads to the French Riviera attached to Patrol Squadron 931, ,. ot driven eg ed Shifand K Farouk of Egypt. {a recently reactivated reserve n.. 20 of Broughton Pa The 17-year-old Egyptian beauty unit from the Willow Grove, Pa. 3ir Baldassare was th may be &oing to a rendezvous Naval Air Station. clear. But Mr, Shifter was dead. with Farouk, who anchored off rp wn d ? ! oa. Cannes and set up his royal party NAMED TO BUTLER FACULTY | Today, Mr. Baldassare is held for in the swank Carlton Hotel there, Gene B. Oppy, Ohio University 'D® Alleghany County grand jury Yesterday. faculty ros Has been ap- an a charge of imansiaughter. Farouk has long been reported pointed an assistant professor in CU Of the Inquest before Coranxious to make Miss Sadek his/the Butler University College of ner William D. McClelland came : queen. Education. * (these developments: i ONE: The Carnegie-Ill1inois

;8teel Corp. set up its own police system to prevent overloading of trucks leaving its mills in Penn|sylvania or Ohio. TWO: Dr. McClelland warned {that he would recommend a manslaughter charge be filed against

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non Trucking Co. Pittsburgh, pulled his tractor-trailer rig out of a loading yard of the Carnegie-| Illinois Steel Corp. 2 | His truck weighed 21,000 pounds. oaded on the giant trailer were huge steel coils. In Mr, Baldas-| sare’s pocket was « shipping! ticket showing that the coils weighed 55,575 pounds. 31,575 Pounds Overweight ; His rig thus weighed 76,575

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| Steel Firm Cracks Down 2512 ue Take J] Lives On Truck Overloading

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 20--A man had to die to accomplish it,

So is the coroner of Allegheny County and the truck driver's

On Aug. 14 Anthony Baldassare, 23-year-old driver for the Bran-

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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 20, 1950

nds (German Believed Korean Army Chief

| Reds’ Strategy Similar to Hitler's

Times Foreign Service

has so far directed the North Korean troops is neither Russian nor Chinese. He is one of Hitler's most capable young ex-marshals, © Behoerner by name, ascording to a most reliable source just arrived here from Innsbruck in the Tyrol. Adolph Hitler considered Schoerner tacticlans and one of the few he could count unreservedli. ih the last stages of the war. At the end of the war Schoern- “ ‘er returned to his residence in an eastern suburb of Berlin. He put himself in the hands of the Rus-

E A Ye, sians and was used to instruct the 4 AY ae lt Eastern German police force, : op] . Disappears cans assembled in

About five months ago he disappeared. His family which had settled in Austria, recently has received letters from him from his ‘headquarters” in Korea. Schoerner ig of Tyrolean origin, but has none of the subtlety or suave manners of the southern (Germans. { Since the outbreak of the Korean War several military commentators in Pariz have thought ithat the northern strategy was ivery similar to the methods of {Hitler's generals. It now appears that they were right.

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Camp Atterbury Ready Germans Fear | To Serve 35,000 Troops pivici hh I | Special Units Headed) ter battalions and {od voi DIVISION of Reich |

For Training Here

By MARION CRANEY ~ Times Staff Writer CAMP ATTERBURY, Sept. 20 A daily trickle of non-divisional units and recruits from all over,

lance. company. : | As revéaled by Maj. Gen. Danliel B. Stickler, division com-| - : mander, at a recent assembly of] Plan Under Fire his troops, there are “some 10,000, Times Forelgn Service in the division.” Another 15,0000 BERLIN, Sept. 20—Thoughtfulo

is expected this week. | Germans, particularly in Berlin,

! its will the country slowly is building this| on vistonal pn supervi- re alarmed at French proposals

Pe ae oF 2 Digaes BAT sion, but may be attached to the for. a defense line like the “AtB eo Col. J : Aw {28th Division if needed. |1antic Wall” along the Elbe River Yel 88 YU. James re Honor Guard Returns | which divides German's Soviet-

phey, comnfander, made the an-| ! De tour that the camp is i Within “the 28th Division, pre-| occupied ‘zone from its western areas.

ing made ready to serve up tocyele seliool 3278. Sie Six week 35,000 troops, special units from Pe of: instruction pre | The suggestions put forth in throughout the nation moved combat training, found GIs Bw Suggeslto . IN whe the Germans are already consid-

toward Attetbury by truck. train|fatigues outdoors ‘sitting with atsn bur. onton fogged on nstriclons, any sired mp over the wre. The 28th Division, the largest jo 0. jife at Camp Atterbury|ing® of one of their own Western on duty in this country, will be begin today, nine days late German commentators who instrengthened. as “fillers” add 10 rhey were the honor guard that | sists that Kastern Germany be per cent to division strength. Full|petiirreq this morning from| Written off” and abandoned te war strength of a division is be- wilkes-Barre where thev served Communist control. tween 20,000 and 21,000. las escort for the 33 dead in the| Urge Flexible Plan Although the fillers are not recent Ohio rail tragedy. | The French plan for a fixed de- | expected to begin arriving until) {fense line, the Germans feel, tomorrow, non-divisional units, 1 1 would do just that and end for including organized reserve corps Call Reich Confectio lan time any possibility of reunitoutfits began arriving last week- ‘Grenade Splinters ing the nation under democratie end. ’ Times Foreign Service leadership. 30 Units Due Sept. 30 | BERLIN, Sept. 20 Bakers in| Men like Ernst Reuter, lord More than 30 such units, rang- the German town of Tauberbis- mayor of Berlin, long have been ing from a detail of one to a|chofsheim, near Wuerzburg, re-|UrSing that -defense measures {whole company, were scheduled! I ’ . ’ must be more positive and more |to reach here by Sept. 30. Al-|C®NtlY produced a new kind of geyihje on the theory that Sethough military {confection and labeled it, for rea-| ;.¢ pressures in Eastern Europe

classification] {binds camp officials from dis-

Fixed Defense Line

{sons which aren’t entirely clear, |. at first be contained and then

{closing units and strength, m-| &I0ade splinters.” ultimately forced back. -.

| The ever-watchful press Was copyright. 1950, by The Indianapolis Times creased activity on newly-sur-| cq. instantly. Cookies, it was 0d ihe Chicago Daily News, Ine.

faced camp roads shows a grow-| argued, must not be “militaristic.”

ng influx of troops. Over-all The bakers acceded. The mor- Named Chief of Staff

plans call for more than 300 go1a now are called

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include a er, | 8TH ARMY HEADQUARTERS, {South Bend laundry company, a ACTOR IN ACCIDENT | Korea, Sept. 20 (UP)—Maj. Gen. |Gary quartermaster service com-| HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 20 (UP)-—-| Deven C. Allen today was named pany, a 8t. Paul, Minn., mobile| Actor Richard Greene was unhurt| chief of staff of the 8th Army. army surgical hospital, transpor-/in a three-car collision yesterday.! Gen. Allen, 56, a native of [tation truck companies . from but officers questioned him when | Utah, was chief of staff of the | Pennsylvania and Alabama, they learned he was driving with-| 12th Army Group in Europe |evacuation hospitals, ordnance out a license. Mr. Greene said| under Gen. Omar Bradley im |depot, ordnance and quartermas- he lost the license last week-end.! World War II.

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