Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 August 1951 — Page 1
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Inseparable Pals—
- Boy Scarred
By Tragedy Walks Alone
a » By R. K
. SHULL
Times Staff Writer
BLUFFTON, Aug. 290—They bought their guns to-|
gether last
hands.
it again. The coroner ruled it accidental
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That should complete the report, but there's more to tell—| much more. There's the story of]
The other rifle is idle.
istmas, both 22-caliber rifles.
i nnn bon einer ier ones DIPS Are Jammed Into
Its owner never will claim
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FORECAST: Occasional showers ending late tonight. Cloudy and warmer tomorrow. Low tonight 70, high tomorrow 89.
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235,000 Childless Husbands
six happy years, of insepatanisi Lf 0 $ of playmates, of heartless tragedy us e
and stunned silence. | Richard Ross, 13, has seven sis-| ters and no brothers. With that] much femininity in the house, a youngster has a tough time trying! to be rugged. i He found the companion he needed when Tommy Andrews moved into the neighborhood six| years ago. Tommy was every-: thing a boy could desire in a running mate. :
Both loved to fish and swim. Both preferred football and base-|
ball to the more Hoosier-like bas-| Par. chief counsel for a bar as-|1430 E. Market St. owned by ;
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 (UP) — An army spokesman said today that none of the 90 West Point cadets accused of cribbing has been reinstated by
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the military academy. He said that final
cally all
the cases.
By United Press
review has been completed in practi-
“Give me your tired, your poor,
“Your huddled masses yearning to breathe
free, “The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, “Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me: “I lift my lomp beside the golden door.” (Inscription on the Statue of Liberty)
By DONNA MIKELS Indignant neighbors today directed the attention of the {Area Rent Office to a !land-
lord said to be crowding non-English speaking persons into his furnished "apartment
house” at more than three times maximum legal rental. The Rent Office began an immediate investigation of the con-
NEW YORK, Aug. 29—Robert verted apartment house at 1426-
i in, 856 S. Merid- : th {sociation committee investigating Louis F. Bernstein kereall xs In he lume the West Point scandal, said to-/ian St.
“boys. . The Urge to Hunt
Mr. and Mrs. Burns Ross and]
remember which families
{day he has received “very reliable! information” that at least six of/tried to
A Rent Office investigator who investigate telephone
ithe 90 ousted cadets have been complaints and anonymous notes At time it became difficult for| restored to duty at the academy. found he could not question the Mr. Daru made the statement immigrants because they neither Mr. and Mrs. Harold Andrews to| at the opening of a public hearing SPoke nor understood English.
seemed they had closer attach-|Courts Bar Association.
ment for each other than their | own blood relatives. They'd run down to the river
off to the circus together. Last Christmas they got the, urge to hunt. They saved their| money and with stipends from;
the new rifles. Yesterday,
“I was given a little pause this imorning by very reliable information which came to me that unfurnished has or the stone quarry to fish to-|at least six men in the last day into three units gether, leaving their brothers and or two have been restored to Latvian sisters behind. They even went duty at the Point, Mr. Daru said. mately $117 monthly.
‘No Different’
the into the dismissals being conduct-| boys belonged to. Sometimes the! ed by the Committee of Justice of parents would worry when iti the New York Criminal and Civil
Made Into 3 Units
Returning later with an interpreter and through questioning of other persons he learned that one unit which is legally scheduled to rent at $34.50 monthly been chopped up for which three families pay approxiStill another unit which Rent Office records show should reni
“These cases were no different. for $34.50 as an unfurnished five-
Richard. to go out for a little/these men.”
squirrel shooting. Whi¢ Tommy
In opening
the
I can’t figure out at all their parents were able to buy! basis for restoration, of
the room unit is broken up into two these units and rented to two more DP men except that it could be the families at approximately $88.68 Tommy called on|{forerunner for restoration of all monthly.
All of the families being housed
hearing, Mr.!there are refugees from the Rus-
stood on the sidewalk, Richard Daru said the investigation was sian reign of terror in their hometalked to him through the upstairs/being limited to the procedures land.
window. Richard was inspecting|which were followed in dismissing the men for allegedly cheating in
exami 0! into nat ad would mol Bo make regarding their accommoda-
the men involved. Mr. Daru also said that Jerry
his rifle. A shot rang out, and while the kids in the neighborhood watched, Tommy staggered, then froze. Richard ran down the stairs and
out to Tommy's side. Tenderly Geisler, he laid him.on the grass. Seconds later, Tommy was dead, . .
rs
4 s
Before he died,
. .
was able to speak. The bullet had!
entered his neck and punctured a lung’ - Mrs. Andrews scene a f were Tommy's brothers and sisters.
was on
Had No Complaints
They had no complaints to [tions or the rental. A priest active in DP work in Indianapolis explained: . :
A TOUCH OF HOME—Tidy Latvian housewives have added touches of their homeland to quarters for-which rent office officials say they are being overcharged. Hére visiting in the apartment of Mrs. Alexander Dimzios (seated, left) are ‘Dzidra Zils, 9 (standing), and Aina Zils, 6, and Janus Ozolins, 11 (seated).
Gzech Ambassador Trying. Charm on
Charles
well-known - Hollywoo imony from -ousted ‘cadets bn th rar 8 eth ates A First ‘Witness, The first witness ‘called wa Norris Shira,
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: |- a» They have seen attorney, is taking additional tes. nes chased awaysiiihe ni
_never to be seen again anys ““linstinctively: fear, anything co
nected with the word ‘pdliee,’ $7 s One couple, Mr. and Mrs. Alex-
their: loved.
Hamlin, ander Dimzios, pay $9.50 weekly the Tex.. a tackle on last year's foot-|for a front room and a kitchen monients later” so ball team. A veteran of 40 months with no water connections. They and Richard's, in the service, Mr. Shira said he share the bath with Janis Mel{had been at the academy for bards, who pays $5 weekly for a
They waited for what seemed|three years. He served as a sec- sleeping room and the Kristaps
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What Do You Ask
ond lieutenant in the Army.
Manteifels
family.
which
pay
Mr. Shira said that at no time $12.50 for two .rooms in the same
|did Judge Learned Hand of the unit. |Circuit Court of Appeals, who investigated the alleged cheating, {seek any information from him.|these rentals total $117 monthly.
Didn't Report. Conversion The Rent Office estimated that
He said he had never met the!Since the owner has never regis-
In Home Details? [jus
nor
him,
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1115 SOUTH BRADLEY OPEN 7 TO 8:30 TONIGHT This cosy bungalow has living room with fireplace and picture window, cabinet kitchen with breakfast space, 2 bedrooms and bath..Ofl | heat; arage; carpeting included. | $8250 {ll buy this home, We in- ! vite you to come and see it today. PL-1314 f LULU GREGG BR-4847 A
KINSON & CO,
The above ad is one of the many HUNDREDS of homes For Sale in the real estate
‘2 Tots Perish in Fire
MONROE N. Y., Aug. 29 (UP
{—Two small children were burned « {to death [stroyed
today when
fire detheir home at Oxford | Springs near here.
State
unit
communicated with terett conversion of this five-room
into smaller apartments or thé change from furnished t6 unfurnished renting at $34.50. ) A Rent Office spokesman said
it
is
undoubtedly the get an upward adjustment,”
listed as
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0 By BILL FOLGER In a shouting, arm-waving speech, Rep. Ray J. Mad-
section of today’s Times. This Gary Democrat declared:
wide variety includes homes and countryside . . . in all styles and sizes. HUNDREDS of these homes are advertised ONLY in . ..
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“Labor's enemies last fal
legally
landlord . could in
Labor Group Warned To Keep Eye on Home Front
\den told the State Federation of Labor convention today "that unions had better emphasize home-front as well as
foreign issues in the elections next year.
A shock of graying hair flopped
| : Democrats in Congress to surviv | Willkie-liké over his brow as the 8 Suryive
the Republican landslide last fall.
I He ripped into war profiteering in every section of the city [filled the newspapers and the air 2d Price control. He said labor
had done more to curtail Comwaves with propaganda concern-| 4 i ing the an War and interna- MURISM than any other force. He [tional problems, and skillfully re-| moved domestic issues from the) {minds of the American people.” [€Ti0US as it was the day after
warned that the threat to the freedom of the world now is as
The vigorous Mr. Madden, who| Fear! Harbor. And he said even
On the Inside—
Perhaps you've seen Butler University many times,
Page He appealed for teamwork with!
but a picture
story today shows it to you through the eyes of a prospective
coed. Ed
are not nice ones
vola writes about square dancing, and Earl Wil son tells about Egypt's’ unmolested flies ..
Sen. Capehart has some words to say about the
President. They
sess s rhs eats
A maverick league is a possibility by tomorrow, when the Pacific
Coast League may decide baseball, says Larry Stillerman Wheat do the Japanese think of Jim Lucas reports '
Amusements ............ 11
tesescannencsuness 8B eebesenanssnnnnas 25 case 14
Serres s ens nannns 11
to withdraw from “organized
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the ‘proposed peace treaty?
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Robert Ruark . i........ 13 Society Fos ennn filmes ses 8, 7 Ed Bovola: ... viene... 13 ) SEPT ssa raa 16, 17 sSesssanavens 13
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Jooks far younger than his 59|Joe Stalin admitted that Ameriyears, warned some 600 delegtaes 3" production won World [they'd better not let it happen| War II | again. He is one of Indiana's two| Farlier, Lawrence M. Raftery, general secretary-treasurer of the Brotherhood of Painters.
| Decoirators and P
aperhangers, praised
[the Indiana State Federation as |'second to none in this nation.”
{management to train more build-
{Ing workers. Like Rep. Madden,
he urged a continued fight against
| So
{the Taft-Hartley Law. -
NAM Is Attacked
did
i two measures duced shortly. before the noon deadline for resolutions. One of them called the National Associa-
intro-
{tion of Manufacturers “one of the
|7 most powerful and ruthless lob-
|bies ever maintained” and said’ it (had “put over the Taft-Hartley
crease for State Federation offi-| cers, higher pay and union recog-
ave Labor Act.” i | Other “resolutions introduced, |and referred to committees fajvored a 10 per cent salary in-|
nition for postal employees. in-
creased paymen
Law,
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i ents under the Indiana Workmen's © Compensation
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1 page. On it you'll find a pro- |
» U. S.-Newsmen na A ‘Star Robert Walker, who t
4 Br Unies Press me Iquer..becayse AOHINGTON, Aug... 20: ek odia onTovEr Si n,” thoked to death last night
nir Prochazka, new Czechoslovak 20 ath | his -p®ychiatrist, gave him
ambassador ynfier ne : a hypodermic sedative injection
is" trying to charm Washington news. reporters—the , quiet his “emotional state.” reporters he cannot jail. <' . I Dr. Frederick Hacker said the He is not being successful—no twice-divorced ‘Bad Boy of Hollymore successful than his encoun® Wood” sank, into unconsciousness ter with President Truman yes-, about 10:30 p. m., Indianapolis terday when he got a tongue- time, after being given a shot of lashing at-the White House. He sodium amytol by his . associate, faced another one today when he Dr. Sidney Silver. meets with Secretary of State Dr. Silver said he had adminDean Acheson. istered the same sedative “injecMr. Prochazka smiles at Amer- tion~to Mr. Walker several times ican newsmen, or appears to he in the past with “good results.” afraid of them. That is not the A fire department rescue squad way he acted in Prague. administered oxygen to the 32Mr. Prochazka used to he press Year-old star for an hour and a chief for the Czech foreign office, half before he was pronounced As such, he helped start the Com- dead of respiratory failure. munist regime's campaign against That's the same as choking to Western journalists. death,” Dr. Hacker explained. i The $1000-a-week bobby sox idol died in the first floor bedroom This campaign led to the Im- of his 8-room Pacific Palisades prisonment of Associated Press Beach bungalow wearing the Correspondent William N. QOatis Same gray and checkered under a 10-year sentence on Sports shirt he had on when he charges of spying. began to feel ill late yesterday Mr. Prochazka, peering bug- afternoon. eyed from behind his dark horn- Had Housekeeper Call rimmed glasses, has been -in- Three years ago Mr. Walker volved directly in the Oatis case went to the Menninger Clinic in at least once. On July 25, he con- Topeka, Kas. for, treatment for ferred withe Ellis O. Briggs, U. 8. alcoholism after .his drinking inAmbassador fh Prague, about Mr. volved him in scrapes with police Oatis. Mr. Briggs got no satisfac- on several occasions. ‘ tion out of Mr. Prochazka. Dy... Hacker saidy.the six-foot, Mr. Truman told Mr. Prochazka wavy haired star's sudden emopersonally yesterday that the best tional upheaval ‘could have been way for Czechoslovakia to im- a recurrence of his old trouble.” prove Czech-American relations is “He had his housekeeper, Mrs. to. free Mr. Oatis. Amy Buck, call me around dinToday's encounter with Mr. ner time” Dr. Hacker explained. Acheson would be unpleasant for,"When I got here he was in a most people to take but Mr. highly emotional state, Prochazka is a career Communist,
a tough Red despite his slight ‘Tha President Feels’ — build. ,
No Satisfaction
slacks
Pollen Count
Grains per cubic yard of air. Today-—360
Yestorday——198 \ By United Press
WASHINGTON, Aug.
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Gam... 89 10 2. m...0 70 President Truman today offered 7a m.. 70 11 a. m... 71 a burial in Arlington National 8am... 7 12 (Noon) 71 Cemetery to a Korean War vet9a m.. 7 1p. m.. 7 eran whose body walk rejected by Latest Ramidiity. on... 95% | cemetery In Sioux City, Iowa,
because he was an Indian. The veteran was Army {John R. Rice, who was early in the Korean War.
Sgt. killed
Follow the Fair
In Your Times His body was shipped to Wini oi w nebago, Neb., his family home. Let Whe Times bé your guide. Authorities of the Sioux City
at the State Fair, Get a copy of The Times
: low ‘the burial because he was tomorrow and: save the section
“not a member of the Caucasian
race.” gram of events to take place
at fair grounds all during fair week plus a handy map to show you where the various activties: will be. Get ‘a copy of The Times
Asks Consent
ately di
tomorrow and find your way [notify Sgt. Rice's family that color or creed.” ay be, @ range for [nterment in Arling- buried in Arlington if
a
around the fair grounds with ‘the Army would be happy to ar-
®
er, Mrs. Ede Licis, works at her as a bedroom and living charges
After Hunger, the Big Time—
Robert Walker, ‘Bad Boy’ And Bobby-Sox Idol, Dies
By VIRGINIA MacPHERSON Wi
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 29--Screen urned
4 |
Robert Walker
“He kept saying: ‘I feel terrible, Doc. Do something quick” But he didn't know he was dying Whether he had been drinking 1 could not say. I didn't get to talk to him too much. He was too emotionally upset.”
Struggled to Top
Mr. Walker played top roles in nearly a score of films, strug gling to the top after his marriage to dark-eved Jennifer Jones Jan. 9, 1939. They often went hungry, but both made the big time. Then their marriage went on
the rocks, Jennifer charging that Walker “would become irritable and stay eut all night.” She an nounced her divorce plans two weeks after winning an«® scar She won custody of théir two sons, Robert, 10, and Michael, 9 After that Mr. Walker was said to carry ‘the tallest torch. in town.” He married Barbara Ford daughter of Director-Produce: John Ford July 8, 1948. She di vorced him Dec. 16 of the same year charging he struck her when he was angry.
Truman Offers Hero's Rites To Indian Killed in Korea
place of heroes, Gen. Vaughan's telegram told the Rice family that if it consented, the Army would arrange the Arlington burial White House Press
the nation's ranking
Secretary
Joseph Short said the Army, at the direction of Mr. Truman. will supply air Winnebago to the body and the sergeant's family.
from for
t®ansportation Washington
Telegraphs Mayor
Mr. Truman also had Gen,
Cemetery, -however, refused to al- Vaughan send as telegram to the mayor of Sioux City.
It said: “Please advise the family of
his 1
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CROWDED QUARTERS—Seventy-one-year-old grandmoth-
knitting in the room which serves
# imarried men
igom for a family of four. Landlord. $9.50 weekly for part of reconverted five:room dwellink officials will send the new reguunit that had rental ceiling of $34.50 monthly.
"Ridgway Clears
150,000 Men
‘Apartment’ Here), 4-F Files
To Be Tested
9000 Conchies Will Go to Work:
By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 29— Thousands of childless mare ried men sre due to receive induction notices from their
draft boards in the near future, The childless husbands are about to lose their draft deferments and be called to military service.
The new draft law passed in June requires that these men be classified 1-A—available for mili. tary service-—unless they qualify for deferment on some grounds other than marriage. Previously, all married men were placed in a 3-A classification regardless of whether they had children | Selective Service headquarters has never said how many men {would be affected by this change in the law, hut congressional ex‘perts estimated that some 235.000 would lose their {deferments,
Draw Up Regulations Selective Servite legal experts have finished drawing up regula[tions for administering the new law and sent them to the White House. President Truman is exe pected to approve them soon. Once. he does, Selective Service |
lations to state directors: and
——- local draft boards, and the local
boards will start reclassifying all childless husbands in their files, Another 150,000 registrants, all 4-Fs, are also likely to lose their
deferments under lower mental standards provided in the new law, :
Reducing Soon The act requires the Armed
Forces Lo-reduce thoggm. 1 Gr rE Raabe amb) IDAMCER Ic hAR Le nn Tt 8], : Sia THERE oy «a=Congressiopal experts predicted... -. TOKYO, Aug: 29 - Gen, Matthew. about: 150.000. men now-classified B. Ridgway's fir but “mild a would hecome< FIg¥le oF to fhe Gommunists ‘was believed serdice. ‘today to have paved the way for - About 9000 other draft regise
early resumption of the Kofean (rants who are conscientious ob
armistice talks. The reply rejected a nist demand for a new
Nations investigation of the al-
CommuUnited
leged bombing of neutralized Kaeson. but it contained none of the
scathing language which marked
his previous exchanges with the Reds. The Supreme United Nations
Commander made only two points in his brief message:
ONE—The Red offer to permit a re-investigation a the alleged raid purpose other than to this unjustifiable delay in armistice negotiations.”
week after “could serve no continue the
TWO--Gen, Ridgwayv will. send his truce negotiators to Kaesong 0 seek a ‘reasonable sarmistice agreement” as soon as the Com munists lift their suspension of the talks Gen, Ridgway's reply was broadcast to the Communists2@ver the Armed Forces radio®and handed to their liaison officers south of Kaesong in Korea a half-hour later. The Communists broke off the cease-fire conference last Thursday on: grounds that a United Nations plane had bombeu and “strafed the Communist delega tion's headquarters af Kaesong
Two United States officers who
viewed the “evidence concluded that it had been planted.
Held Following
Jectors will be required under the new law to perform some type of work contributing to the national: health, safety or interest. Previousiy, persons who objected to even non-combat military service were deferred.
Selective Service officials said there is no thought of placing conscientious objectors in work
camps. But they will be required to get work which their individual boards regard as in the natioh's best interest.
OK Million Dollar Sewer Project
City sanitation officials today had the final go-ahead sign foe plans to build a §1 million intere ceptor on the near North Side, Approval of the project was
granted by the State Stream Pole lution Control Board. The sewer,
several miles long, will eliminate overflow of untreated sewage
into White River from the existe ing Pogue's Run interceptor,
Construction {is expected to start * this fall. Bids will he accepted until Sept. 10, with $1,250,000 set as the city's maxie mum estimate
Sanitation officials said sewage from the area now. runs into a storm sewer, then flows untreated the river, The interceptor would route it to the sewage dise posal plant,
into
Autopsy on Wife wo $100,000 Estates
Robert Catron, police yesterday that He punched and Kicked his wife, Mary, 4°, five days before her death. Police at first believed Mrs. (fatron's death to be from natural causes, but a coroner's autopsy, following a phone call from a suspicious relative, revealed severe bruises on her body whith may have caused death,
48, admitted 10 Admitted for Probate
Two $100,000 wills were filed in Marion County Probate Court yesterday. Admitted for probate were the eStates of Omar S. Hunt, presi dent of Marshall & Bushart Co., and Mrs. Binnie M, Miller, widow of James Miller, former merchane dising ‘manager of H. P. Wasson
Catron, who lives at 2626 Wade & Co. Both died Friday.
St., told police yesterday that he beat her during a drinking party Aug. 18, five days before her death. They were in her apartment at 826 N. New Jersey St when he struck her. Hef head hit a couch as she fell, knocking her unconscious. He then kicked her. Catron, now being held on suspicion of murder, is jobless and
|Sgt. John R. Rice that arrange- has been arrested previously for |ments for burial in Arlington |drunkeness and assault and bat-| Mr. Truman read about it in/have been authorized. The Pres-| tery. ‘ the morning papers. He immedi-|ident feels that the national ap-| his military aide, Preciation of patriotic sacrifice Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughn, to should not be limited by race,
Lookit Who's Here
{
NEW YORK, Aug. 29 (UP)--
ed by plane from Paris today a three-week visit at her es-
- Tobacco heiress Doris Duke ar’
Heave-Ho
INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa., Aug. 29 (UP)-- Pvt, Stephen Pappas, Washington. D. C., has learned, it is wise for every soldier to dig his own . foxhole,
In a combat problem here the 250-pound Pvt, Pappas sought hasty eover = by jumping in a foxhole dug by a much , man, wp It took efforts of “to free hl