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TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1951
| Spectacular Blaze Razes on Laundry
Firm Officials * Set Damage At $150,000
The Lux Laundry was back in | business today despite a two- §
stroyed 80 per cent of its plant ' at 5301 Winthrop Ave. sent flames leaping 100 feet and smoke pouring 400 feet into the air, overcame three firemen and burned: another,
At least 5000 persons watched the fire. Only the dry cleaning plant, office and watehouse escaped damage or destruction. Today other firms loaned Lux some of their laundry facilities, The fire was discovered, by a driver returning a load of soiled laundry. In a matter of minutes the flames raged out of control. The blaze began in the ceiling in the southeast corner of the building, but Fire Chief McKinney said he did not know the cause.
Estimate Loss
He estimated the loss at $50,000, but officials of the laundry said the damage would exceed $150,000.ley, Engine House 32.
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FLAMES—Firemen fight the adie} flames which wiped out 80 per cent wi the plant.
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‘Shotgun Blast Kills Man Here After Quarrel
| A shoe-repairman shot Bimngertl to death in his bedroom last | night while police climbed - the |stairs of the house at which he {boarded, 715 E. 17th St. | Lester (Jack) Brooks, 50, took his own life, officers said, with a| shotgun presented to him six years |ago by his landlady, Miss Zula | Appling, 37. Before he died, Miss Appling said, Brooks quarreled with her! and drove her from the house by
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pipe which contained $600—her vacation savings. { Argued Over Trip | Miss Appling said an -argument| sprang up when she refused to accompany Brooks on a vacation itrip to Florida “where he always
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{wanted to go.” “When he wasn't mad, you couldn't find a better man on
earth,” Miss Appling told police. |“But he ‘had a terrible temper, es|pecially after he got sick June 25. |He never was right after that.” | Miss Appling said Brooks Hd
All were after 130 Lux employees finished driven back by the mushrooming njapnned for some time to sheot|
Thirteen pieces of apparatus revived by Fire Rescue Squad 14. work for the day and left the (blaze.
answered the call, and firemen
lines.
building measuring 135 feet by|He was bandaged, and 200 feet, leaving only brick and|to fire-fighting. stone walls and partitions, twisted machinery and remnants of|{of the blaze could not burned clothing. An estimated|ately be determined. 6000 to 8000 pounds of laundry was destroyed.
Thomas Stapp, Gamewell dis. plant. sprayed the flames with 22 water |patcher at fire headquarters, suf- in the office and a couple of driv-| fered a burned left arm while ers were still present when book-| dry portion. The fire razed a one - story|/lendihg a hand although off duty. keeper James Craig gave the first and an empty ventilation attic pg. .\.o operated for her. The tw | were quickly consumed. Licking flames ringed the mam-
ttempted to put out the flames moth water tank towering above
Sau ~ N vv id ca e a Fire Chief McKinney sa us Fire-
immedi- With a fire extinguisher, but was ithe plant and set it afire. men raised an aerial ladder and {pressure nozzle to put it out.
Tony Lux, 5726 Carrollton Ave., ‘Mu In all, seven engines, three fire
president of Lux Laundry,
From the moment of the first alarm, at 6:35 p. m., the laundry blazed out of control. Flames shot up 100 feet, enveloping a wooden water tank of 85,000 gallons capacity and setting it afire. Thick, black smoke billowed into the air, attracting thousands of spectators.
Walking, running and driving Lux said. cars, North Side residents arrived will be i so quickly they jammed the nar-|laundry.”
row streets on all sides of the| laundry.
Two minor automobile accidents fidence other at 52d St. and Winthrop Ave. held dries would aid Lux in carrying up fire trucks struggling to reachion until operations would be re- The the: blaze. Police fought to hold sumed at back pressing crowds from the plant. “Our trucks will be back on
danger zone, and were occasion-|
ally aided by errant streams from the street today,” young Mr.
fire hoses. | Firemen overcome by smoke;
and heat included Jack Fagan,/in the dry-cleaning section, Engine House 8; Johh Schmutte, promised. The fire broke cut two hours
Engine House 14, and Robert Hur-|
said he was not able last night Delays WFBM- TV
to estimate the entire damage.
but was not fully covered. | Customer Goods Hit i
“We had the biggest inventory| iwe ever had i life,” Mr.| “But our biggest loss
customer
ial, expréssed conIndianapolis: laun-
Winthrop Ave,
tomorrow |
Only ‘a half-dozen persons,
returned alarm, by telephone. Jesse Cook, night watchman, |
gy Water’
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he said,| A residuum that formed on top of the distilled water, used in cooling the television transmitter tubes, forced WFBM-TV to delay
their starting time two [|—A goods— hours and 14 minutes yesterday: The station is: also a scheduied to begin. tele- 000
casting at 11:15 a. m., but didn’t hit the air waves until 1:29 p. m. distilled water is cleaned at least once a month, but the tiny particles of foreign matter Lux still - accumulate. It hap- | pened that enough built up this time to interrupt transmitting service. WFBM’s radio broadcasts
both |
|called to the The last Fire Department vehicle
The company carried “at least Start 2 Hours to leave pulled away at midnight.
icharged J.
| while
were not halted. Cal.
[trucks and the rescue squad were two-alarm blaze. |
former Muncie,
Suit Charges Muncie Ex-Official Embezzled
| LOS ANGELES, July 31 (UP) a niece in this city, and other rel-|
roofi1ge5 N. College
himself; that he had told her and]
By the time firemen arrived, it neighbors he intended to do it. was impossible to save the laun-|
The wooden
She owned the J&M Shoe Shop, Ave., which]
(had been friends for many oe
to Indianapolis from Kentucky. Police Heard Blast Patrolmen Robert Hurst and Bernard McMichael, sent to the Appling home on report of a row,! were going up the steps when {they heard the |They retreated, and called for |assistance. But there was no need for help. Brooks was found dead with the {shotgun lying across him.
Miss Appling said Brooks had
Ind., city'atives in Kentucky.
[clerk was charged with theft and — |embezzlement of more than $30,- Chapman Worns Agairist st
today in a suit filed by the
Clyde
Dollar for Dollar wu can't beat a ) a» meee Pontiac
| Fidelity & Casualty Co. of New Cutting Power Funds {York. | The suit, filed in Superior Court,! Secretary of Interior Chapman) {Tips on two of the places were Dunnington says the nation would face 2 from citizens. “stole and embezzled” the money Probable power shortage if Con-| in office between Jan. 1943, and June 26, 1946. Fidelity said it had to pay $5000 ing dams. on his bond in 1948 and now asked $5000 on a surety bond. propriations subcommittee yester-| |Dunnington} moved to California day, Mr. Chapman urged restor-| "+ "950. He now lives in Tarzana, ation
WASHINGTON, July 31 (UP)—
1,/ gress cuts the Army Engineers’ funds for building power-produc-|
Appearing before a Senate ap-
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Police Ask Publi To Help Find : Marijuana Fields
ay," sald Judge Joseph M. “I'll give you 10 days in
Police today appealed to citizens since shortly after Brooks came for help as they continued their!
hundreds of
idrive to choke off
ipatches of marijuana. They asked citizens to call the report
(Police Department and
Woman Peels Off Fluorine Due i in Water P System Here Next Week -
F luorine, the chemical
that,
However, dental authorities em-
helps prevent tooth decay, will be phasize that it is not a cure-all,
added to Indianapolis water next Good diet, after meals and regular visits to executive. vice the dentist are still important.
0. Norris,
president of the Indianapolis’ Wa- | announced that the fluori- to chlorine, the bleaching and
ter Co.
brushing the teeth
Fluorine is chemically related
dation program will start one purifying element which is often
week from tomerrow.
Earlier this year, the program
dianapolis Medical the Indianapolis Society. Later, when the State! Public Service Commission al-!
lowed higher water rates, it asked the company to add fluorine to the water. City and state health officials have approved the program. $54,000 a Year Mr. Norris said it would cost $54.000 a year. Fluorine first attracted the attention of scientists when an unusually low amount of tooth decay was reported in a region of Texas. It baffled the scientists until they found that the water contained fluorine. Later experiments confirmed their theory that fluorine helps prevent tooth decay. It is espe-
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Hearing Slated Today In Slaying of Wife
BLACK RIVER FALLS, Wis, July 31 (UP)—A 42-year-old dishwasher was to face preliminary hearing today on charges of clubbing his wife to death with a rifle stock. : Raymond Larson raigned yesterday on first-degree murder charges of shooting and beating his wife as she sought
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To be checked toy was a field at 34th St. and Martindale Ave.
“We will continue checking fields where marijuana is sus-| {pected of growing,” said Vice {Squad Officer Lloyd Whobrey
|“and we will be especially watch-
f $6,900,000 dropped by the| {ful for people picking the nar- - Jeotics. i
Vice Squad officers yesterday] {said marijuana was growing wild lin about 50 fields in Indianapolis, land could be processed easily and {peddled for thousands of dollars. ' ———————————————————
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Times State Service TERRE HAUTE, July 31— Al {brief ground-breaking ceremony | on the site of the new Allis-Chal-mers Manufacturing Co.’ plant] here will be at 9:30 a. m.:fgomorrow. The first shovels of earth will! be turned by Mayor Ralph Tuck-| president | of the Terre Haute Chamber of Commerce; Boyd S. Oberlink, Al-lis-Chalmers vice president, and Martin L. Carson, general man-| ager of the firm, Terre Haute works. | Farth-moving machinery as| been moved into the site in the last few days and grading opera{tions are scheduled to begin im-
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