Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 August 1951 — Page 2

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ERLY, Mass., Aug. 9—Mystery today surthe death of an attractive young bride-to-be killed last night by a speeding railroad train into whose path she ran with “a look of terror” on her

4 Se ie admitted today they had no definite evi- Rails Complain

dence whether Priscilla Beeman, 24, who was to have been married in less than four weeks, died accidentally or was a suicide.

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$548 million-a-year freight rate James Luke, engineer ‘of the Gloucester-to- boosts approved by the Interstate Boston train, said the girl “had a lcok of terror on Commerce CONMRISN Youd be her face” as she ran into his path from woods oppo- | rpe carriers complained. howsite the Boston & Maine Railroad station here. ever, that the increase would pro-| James A. Butler, her stepfather, reported the - duce only about half of what, girl had left home to go shopping. He broached the por and supply costs. ; git ba that Miss Beeman might have been forced | The ICC yesterday approved a into an automobile and driven to Beverly where, he said, she might have run blindly in front of the train

in an effort to escape an attacker.

in the Kast and 6 per cent for,

Freight agents for railroads | here were unable to estimate what the new increases would produce in revenue because of the fluctuating traffic volume.

‘| Was Too Shocked to Scream’ — But all emphasized that the rate increase was not really a |

R * ¥ ‘Blond Insists ‘Bulldogging | 9 per cent boost. It really

| amounted to only 5 per cent because they had been granted

Isn't a Beauty of Nature | a 4 per cent rate hike last April,

they said.

By United Press Miss Gustafson were sitting along the rest of the country. It said

43 ; 9A the wooded shore of Lake Rock- icles ts also MISSOULA. Monk. Aus, §A tn, FOE 7 1,45, EOE peas nosed ot ah justice court’.rules today idly discussing whether to go WOU se

seman ac- increasing traffic volume. case of a Missoula hor {swimming The new rates may go into ef-

cused of Swalsegemg 2 38 Rares His Hoss fect 15 days after the carriers year-old- blond while she W =| . file formal notice with the ICC. nocently enjoying the beauties of a adenly, Hiss Ae Walter 8. Franklin, Pennsylnature on a hot summer after-y,.. in the most approved rodeo Yania Railroad president, said he moon. style and leaped from his mount WAS | ETCt¥, SIRPIOAIC ed The horseman, Clyde Bakker, onto her back. In some Foges ers carriers would suffer. 80, was charged with third degree circles, this feat is called “bull- However price officials said assault. He took the stand briefly dogging.” the rate increases would “bring yesterday to deny being anywhere! “I was too shocked to scream cigrincant Inoren ces in "costs 1 Dear the scene July 21 when the when he first grabbed me,” Miss SCRSUIMEES running. into millions alleged offense took place. {Anderson said. - “I didn’t realize of aollars vearlv.) They voted But his accuser, Juanita Ander- exactly what was happening. that in some cases, especially son, a shapely, blue-eyed blond, “When 1 finally decided to. 45 the increases would .be and her companion, Astrid Gus- scream, he had his hand over my passed ‘along and pyramided by .tafson, 23, had a different story. mouth.” wholesalers and retailers. Miss Anderson said she and Miss Gustafson said she looked Except for specified commodiin vain for something to hit Mr... c ch as grain, the increases Bakker with. : will be 9 per cent in the East ; 5 Also Piayed . © north of: the Potomac and .Ohio, > : sivers and east of the*Mississippt,

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= she said. "I thought it was the 4 Indianapolis went to Work’ on ghd” of both of us.” tories, such as eastern to southinstruments this morning. After kneeling down, she said ern the permitted increase wil A soupy fog which brought re- she finally yelled, “in the nama of pe § per cent.

'G t off her!” —— ports of ceiling zero from most of od ge

“It was only then that Bakker Veterans Group

the state early today, caused mo- released her,” she said.

torists to drive cautiously. Miss Anderson said she also The condition was expected to Prayed. To Back Bayt Active support for Mayor Bayt

rercast Justice of the Peace E, W, Ziebreak up later into low OVercast ..,... ¢aiq he will decide the case in his mayoralty campaign was

_ and then into clouds. Showers today. voted last night.by the Marion were expected in -the south and County Democratic Veterans Or-

central parts of the state, Motorcyclist Burned ganization. ‘+ The fog, the heaviest since early A resolution adopted by the vet-

June, covered the state at In Crash Is Critical erans group stated in part various intensities. It'was caused A teen-aged motorcyclist, His yecald as Mayor speaks by showers cooling air in the lower whose hody is a mass of burns, his ia A iy a yan area yesterday afternoon and the is in critical condition in Metho- voters the Kind of servicer thew temperature drop after sunset gi Hospital today after an acci- are entitled to expect from ey which reduced the temperature of jant an the South Side. rhe pec y the air to the dew point. Windell Raney, 18, of 1424 W.| The veterans elected ~ Street mt Ray St, suffered first, second Commissioner T®ny Maio presi"DN ; , g and third degree burns, dent, succeeding Sheldon Key: 5 DNEY, Australas, Aug. 9 He was'riding on Ray St. near Joseph W. Barr,-first vice presi-{UP)--The worst blizzard in 50 his home last night when a pud-/ dent; James McQueen, second years howled across Australia to-'qle gent his motorcycle skidding. vice president; David. Probstein, day and struck at a crippled Brit- It hit the curb, turned over and third vice president;.Louis P. M. ish freighter 30 miles off the coast caught fire. The flames quickly Adams, secretary and. Thomas eperead to Mr. Raney’s clothing. Quinn, treasurer.

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| WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 — The , nation's railroads said today the;

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9 per cent hike in freight rates i

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THURSDAY, AUG. 9, 1951

Fn | Music Hath Of Woman DETROIT, Mich. Aug. 9 (UP)—Launcelot J. Bufton,

Soothe a Judge . | a 55-year-old music-loving CCl en d ; postal clerk, promised today ! to get another job and pay

| Be. United Pre back the $1000 he stole from

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. Aug the malls. to finance poor / youths’ educations.

Mr. Bufton, who worked at the suburban Pontiac, Mich., postoffice since 1942; pleaded guilty yesterday to charges he took the $1000. But when he explained to Federal Judge Arthur Lederle why he took the money and that he had repaid some of it, the judge freed him on $1000

{9—The FBI solved the mystery of St. Petersburg’'s “Cinder Woman’ to the satisfaction of local police today. It was decided she cremated herself by going to sleep in an easy chair with a cigaret in her hand. | For more than a month, detec- : tives here had puzzled over the Ba wi death of Mrs. Mary Hardy Reeser, hl whose body was consumed by X fire in her apartment the night Jersonal dona Pending a pro fof July 1. The slender, bespectacled { All that was left of the elderly pachelor said -he used the widow was a shrunken skull, 2 money and some of his own piece of backbone and part of tq nelp “seven or eight” young fone foot. What baffled police was, men finish their educations. how a fire intense enough to “It. made me very happy,” cremate could avoid damaging he said, “when one fellow the rest of the room. entered the ministry, and of The FBI explained that “heat course I was glad to see sevliberated by the burning bodys eral of them decide on a has a tendency to rise and forms; career of music.” a layer of hot air which never

came in éontact with the furnish- 5 : ’ ings on a lower level.” Early Holds His Own b——— WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 (UP)—

Food Prices Steady Former White House ‘Press Secre- . WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 (UP)— tary Stephen T. Early, ill with a Retail food prices held steady heart malady, ns holding Js during the three-week period end- OWN.” his doctor said today. Mr. ing July 15, the Bureau of Labor Early, 61, was stricken Tuesday Statistics reported today. with coronary thrombosis.

The Bureau said retail food .: a prices showed only a small frac- THE PLAIN TRUTH about The

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: By United Press GARY, Ind, Aug. 8 — John Knowles, 17, of Chicago, has written another “confession” of the slaying of Miss Mary Cheever, Gary school teacher, and Probation Officer Nathan Glover said today he is “convinced” the statement is accurate. Mr. Glover said Knowles wrote the new statement last night giving what he described as det”ls of the fatal shooting of the teacher in a Gary alley Mar. 3, 1949, « Chicago police said today three Chicago youths implicated by Knowles in an earlier statement were cleared by a lie detector test. Two of them, Edward Hooks, 21, and Jesse Smith,-17, were to appear in Chicago Boys’ Court today on disorderly conduct, police said. The third, Robert Douglas, 17, is being held on a burglary charge. All three were with Knowles at the Illinois State Training School for Boys near St. Charles, Knowles will be turned over {o Gary police as soon as a charge is placed against him, Mr. Glover said. The youth was held at Lake County jail at Crown Point under jurisdiction of the juvenile court. In his latest statement Knowles told the probation officer he shot the school teacher when she resisted his attempts to steal her purse. He then rode a bicycle to Phoenix, 1ll., where he burned the purse and threw his pistol into a chicken house, the statement said.

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