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Cut Down in Gangland Style—

Strip Tease

Shot 11 Times From Ambush Near His Home

By United Press

CALUMET CITY, Ill, Sept. 15—Arthur Helfer, 53, owner of five night spots on Calumet’ City's Honky Tonk Strip, was

murdered gangland-style today when he was cut down by a hail

of gunfire outside his garage.

Police said he was hit 11 times. They said he apparently saw his

attackers approaching and drew

a revolver he carried in a shoulder

holster. It was still clenched in his outstretched hand when his body was found. It had not been fired. His wife, Lillian, said shé heard a +disturbance about 2:30 a. m.

She told police it sounded like]

two men arguing. A short time later she investigated and found Mr. Helfer’'s body sprawled alongside the garage. Mrs. Helfer said she did not hear any shots.

Strip-Tease Joints

Mr. Helter had an interest in the Paddock Club, the Peacock

Lounge, Art's Doghouse, the |

Stickum Niccum Club and one other, All are located in the garish two - block section of Calumet City’s main stem where striptease joints stand one alongside another. Police said Mr. Helfer had left! the Stickum Niccum Club and

driven home.. He parked his car: outside the garage and stepped

out into the driveway when his attackers emerged from some bushes along the border, police aid. He was hit four times in the head with slugs from a :45 caliber pistol and seven times in the body with slugs from a .32 caliber pistol. . Find No Motive

Police could give no motive for the shooting. In his pocket they found $39 in cash and he was still wearing a wrist watch. In addition to his nightclub interests, Mr. Helfer had petroleum holdings in Southern Indiana. Police said his attackers—it was assumed there was more than one—fired at very close range. Powder burns were found on Mr. Helfer’'s temple. Once before there was an alleged attempt on his life. Mr. Helfer and his wife live’ in an exclusive subdivision of-the suburb. The earlier attempt on his te occurred June 3 of this year. that time, four men in a car ho

out of his driveway. One of]

them, wearing a handkerchief | Mr. Fuiler will test more of the Way to return home, he didn’t see today, over his face, got out of the \farm early next week. He plans 2

car and came over to Mr. Helfer! who threw his car in reverse and| backed over his own lawn and escaped. |

Mishaps Add 3 More to Indiana Road Death Toll

A Richmond youth died today of injuries suffered in a traffic crash after a football game, and two other highway fatalities were reported in freak accidents. A 3-| year-old boy fell out of a car| and an elderly pedestrian was hit! by the rear view mirror of a truck. William Portanova, 20, Richmond, died in St. John’s Hospital at Anderson of injuries suffered last night in a two-car crash on Ind. 9 near Ind. 67. He and two other Richmond youths were returning from the Richmond-An-derson High School football game. ~ Injured were William Eavey, 19, and Mel Thompson, 19. in the Portanova car; and Harold Barnes and Lawrence Campbell; both 18, and of Indianapolis; in the other car. David Snyder, 3, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Snyder of: Ft, Wayne, was killed when he fell out of the back door of an automobile and was crushed by an , approaching car on U, 8. 30, near Columbia City. Authorities said the child apparently tampered with the door lever of the car which was being driven by Mrs. Nellie Lamle of Ft. Wayne. Donald Woods. 25, Burket, drove the car which struck the child. " “Fred Radke, 68, Michigan City died of injuries received when he stepped into the side of a truck on U. 8. 20~near Michigan City. His head was struck by the rear vision mirror. Philip Larivier, 22, of Detroit, was the driver of the truck.

Steel Cutback to Hit State Bridge Program

Federal steel allotments to Indiana for highway and bridgebuilding purposes will be cut about two-thirds for the JanuaryMarch period of 1952, the State Highway Commission reported today. Commission Chairman Samuel 'C. Hadden said steel cutbatks will hit bridge construction programs hardest. He said the state may have to ‘seriously curtail” $14 million bridge program for the next two years,

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SATURDAY, SEPT. 15, 1051

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Hoosier Reports Finding. Uranium

“Man, 86, Kisses Wife, Then Death Car Strikes

Times State Service

MORGANTOWN, Sept. 15 86-year-old man was killed " a

Times photo by Lloyd B. Walton. HEAD FIRST—I3 FEET Benjamin King, 55, of 2321 ple Ave. (inset), receives first aid after he slipped and fell 13 feet head first into a ditch on the eo Burk Construction Co., was moving lumber on the city sewer construction project at Brookville Rd. and Gladstone Ave. He was taken to Methodist Hospital for treatment of severe head bruises and cuts, and examination for possible skull fracture.

car near here today a few sec-

Ore I St te Fa onds after saying goodby to his 0 d Im wife as she boarded a bus. James H. Cullen, Morgantown, R. R. 3, accompanied his wife to

proached Mr. Helfer as he droveias Mr. Fuller tested the same the bus stop on Ind. 135 in front diana Bell Telephone Co.'s

of their home. Crossing the high-/Preciation charges was announced two days before a court

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area as Sunday.

ito take samples of earth and rock {to the geology department at In{diana University for further tests.| ‘It Is Possible’ Dr. Charles Dice, of |geology department, expressed in{terest in the tests and said that

[if they are correct, Mr. Fuller has Bert H. toads Dies

{discovered the first fissionable {material in Indiana. “The probabilities of fissiopahle

not too good, but it is possible” Dr. Dice said.

said. “When 1 was a child, lightning struck a large oak tree on a ridge. My brother and I cut the tree down, and a few years later,| lightning struck the stump. Dad] {blasted the stump out and leveled] the ground. When lightning! struck there again later, my father said he believed

Studied Goologs

“The remark made me curious.

Ww hen Js went. to college 1 studied Police Raiders Hald geology and realized there were 2 On Gaming Charges Indiana rate, Jones said,

some odd rock formations on the property; “-Mr:Fuller-said: “I didn't do much about it until

. day by the police vice squad. ent” evidence to support its rate t (Geiger counter as id 2 g my wife bought -a Geig Wilkins, 46, of 225 E. jncresse big Monday. recently.” : the new evidence must y . Michigan St., was arrested at 148 ferred to the

If more tests prove that there definitely is uranium on the farm,

speeding cdr approach. Mr. Cullen was struck by the increase permanent. car driven by Richard F. Erickson, R. R. 3, Nashville.

lice said.

Leeds, veteran, Veterans Hospital on Cold Spring

“I've always been curious about Rd. He was 64 and lived at 2326 r the land on our farm.” Mr. Fuller g

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a few years in Washington Park. Survivors are his wife, Rennie; there was some kind of mineral 2 son, T/Sgt. Basil W. Leeds. stathere. Soin tioned grandchildren.

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Two persons were arrested on

W. 16th St.

in the nation.”

He compared the 1950 Indiana rate, 4.35 per cent, ity’s 3.45 rate in Wisconsin, 3.46 in Nevada, 4.00 in Illinois, in Ohio and 4.10 in Michigan. The

“out of line.”

gambling charges in raids yester- pected to offer

Police confiscated five court can make final judgment.

Mr. Fuller said he would notify full books of baseball tickets and:

atomic energy authorities. “I'll leave the rest up to them.”

S/8gt. Gabriel A. DiDanato, 2 of Camp Atterbury, was bound over to the Grand Jury yesterday on charges filed following an accident Sept. 8 in which Det. , Sgt. James T. Gaughan was killed and Sgt. Bethel Gaither was injured. The Army sergeant, a former) Bridgeway, Pa. resident is charged with failure to stop at a through street and reckless homicide. Sand : His bond was reduced from $5000 to $1000 by: Municipal Court 3 Judge Joseph M. Howard

Hurt in Plane Crash

MADISON, Sept. -15 (UP)-—A Battle Creek, Mich., couple, Mr.! and Mrs. Richard C. Alman, suf-| fered ‘minor injuries last night] when their light plane struck util-| ity wires and crashed near Madi-| son Airport. The craft was demolighed.

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Walter Jones Jr., The car selor of the Indiana Public Serv‘carried him 111 feet and then ice Commission, asked the Fed-. ;icraghed into a culvert, state po- eral Communications Commission| the IU to investigate Bell and announced| - wd they had agreed.

public coun-

The FCC will] investigate the state utility soon as possible,”

At Veterans Hospital | But Mr. Jones did not the pending probe of Thiamin ds. World War TI,charges would affect the Circuit! last night at the Court action last Monday. Lloyd Cloycombe will start “hearings then on whether a ary rate boost be allowed Indiana, Bell three native of Illinois Should be made permanent. and an Indianapolis resident 55 Cost of the rate years, had been an insurance inspector here for seven years. Services are set for 1:30 p.m. to $7.2 million a year. the J. C. Wilson Mr. Jones told the FCC that al-| |Chapel of the Chimes with burial though Bell obtains equipment for use in many states from the same source, its depreciation rate, in Indiana is “one of the highest

increase to Bell customers in 80 Hoosier communities has been estimated up

with the util-

Jones said “Indiana Bel is ex“new and differ-

Farewell Recital Set

a8 I Dale Young will present a fare8 Lyn- well organ recital in Zion Evan36, of 4005 W. gelical and Reformed Church at Police found 174 10 a. m. tomorrow. formerly also of the Jordan ColMore than 150 books of baseball lege of Music faculty,

24, tickets were confiscated in nine Monday to commence a DUSTere

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Towns to Have With Ex-Fighter Over Blonde’ s Affections

$9 Tax Rates

Only two towns {in Mario County— Southport and Homecroft —will have $5 tax rates next year.

The County Tax Adjustment:

Board completed its review of proposed levies yesterday by fixing the rates for Southport at $5.268 and Homecroft at $5.208. Only one ‘township — Center Outside—cut its tax rate from last year. Indianapolis property owners will pay from $4.8477 to $4.948, depending on the township they live in.

| The city rates are $4.873 for

Center Township, $4.858 for Washinton, . $4.948 for Perry,

$4.8477 for Warren, and $4.9357/

for Wayne. : Final approval. of the levies was given yesterday after the, Board trimmed the city schobdl rate 2.5 cents to $1.755. The 20jcent cumulative building fund rate! was unchanged, The Board made the reduction by recommending an increase of

‘estimated reserves in the sick!

leave fund, an increase in esti{mated miscelianeous revenue and {a reduction in estimated capital {outlay. | Following are the approved {1952 rates for the various units {in the county:

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FEC to Investigate: UE Bell's Depreciation Rate in Indiana

A federal investigation of In- Vonnegut Hardware Co. for 38

m. in Immaculate M, rt of Mary Catholic Church. burial will be in Holy Cross. Mr. O'Connor died Thursday In St. Vincent's Hospital. He was 58. A life-long resident of Indianapolis, he was a member of Imymaculagte Heart Church. He was ‘employed as accountant by the

de- years.

Surviving are his wife, Hilda; a daughter, Mrs. Carolyn Sulli-

hearing on making a Bell rate v4, and his mother, Mrs. Lena O'Connor, all of Indianapolis.

LAST TES Hogihar Levitt, who died of a heart attack at School 84 yesterday, will be buried tomorrow in BethCemetery. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Leavitt, 5756 Washington Blvd. Services are set for Il a. m. at Aaron-Ruben Funeral Home for the 10-year-old child, born a "blue baby."

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HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 15—

Blonde actress Barbara Payton p Stepped out of a neutral corner today and accused actor Tom Neal of throwing the first punch

in a bldody, one-side battle _ hat sent Franchot Tone to the hospital in serious condition.

Mr. Tone, suffering a head concussion, broken nosé and fractured cheek bone, failed to land one blow on Mr. Neal in the. predawn brawl yesterday over who would marry Miss Payton. Doctors gave Mr. Tone sedatives to quiet him through the. night. He was unconscious for hours after. the fight. Mr. Neal, a heavyweight at 180 pounds, had a 10-pound advantage over Mr. Tone, who was |battling out of his -class. Age

37, while Mr. Tone is 45. And Mr. Neal was a regional Golden Gloves champ in Chicago 'while Mr. Tone's more cultural leanings won him only a Phi Beta Kappa key. The actress who is nursing a black eye, was in seclusion at a friend’s home. She was supposed to marry Mr. Neal in San Francisco today. But she moved into Mr. Tone's corner after changing her mind only a few hours before the ceremony. She said she didn’t remember what started the fight. “The first blow knocked Doc (Tone) down and he was completely out. Then Tom beat him unmercifully,” she said. | Barbara hovered on the side[lines screaming at Mr. Neal to leave Mr. Tone alone. She ‘didn’t come off well, either. Somehow she connected with a flying fist and wound up with a * shiner. Miss Payton said she would visit Mr. Tone at the hospital to|day and that they probably would 5 give a joint statement later. Judson O'Donnéll, retired theaterman who lives above Miss Payton, in a Hollywood Hills ‘apartment house, said he was awakened from a deep sleep by Barbara's anguished voice vellng} n't do that Don’t! Leave Kin HET

“It sounded,” Mr. O’Donnell; went on, “like a prizefighter in a, gym beating the bags. It was one!

of the bloodiest fights I've ever seen.” | Doctors operated on Mr. Tone to rebuild his nose and left cheek bane. They said his _condition is only “fair. “With cerebral concussions it's hard to tell,” they explained. “We're praying he will recover. But only the Lord knows that for sure.’

Neal's Knuckles Raw

Mr. Neal, with both hands swollen and his knuckles ripped raw, didn't mean to slug the older actor but he said he couldn't {help it. | “We both wanted to marrx {Barbara,” he said. “In fact, Bar-| {bara asked me to marry her. She

Home Blast Kills 5 of Ohio Family

HENRIETTA, O. Sept. 15 (UP)—Five of the nine-member McGhee family lay dead today as a result of the explosion and fire that ripped apart their four-room, wooden home. Mrs. Ethel McGhee; her daugh- * ter, Dorothy, 13, and her 8-month-

‘old son, Larry, died last night in

“|Amherst Hospital from burns suffered in the flash fire yesterday.

burned rescuing the baby.

Two other children died in the!

fire supposedly started when Mrs. McGhee poured kerosene on some ignited coal. The children, Shir-| ley. 5, and Shiela, 3, were found huddled under the remains of their bed when the flames subsided. Three other children who were outside at the time of the blast escaped without injury. {

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thing could “have been avoided if Tone had not been on the warpath.”

The fight that sent Mr. Tone to the hospital isn't the only battle he’s had lately. But in his custody’ fight with his ex-wife, Actress Jean. Wallace, now the two-week bride of Cornel Wilde, he at least came off with a draw.

A Court Battle

A judge gave them until Jan. 7, 1952, to work out a friendly agreement on who gets custody of their two sons, Pascal, 7, and Jeff, 5.

Mr. Tone and Miss Wallace have been fighting it out in the courts for months. - And it was At a hearing last winter that Mr, Tone admitted on the. witness stand he “couldn't estimate” the number of times he had seen Miss Payton in the nude.

Attorney S. 8. Hahn at that hearing asked Mr..Tone if he had ever seen her “naked.”

Mr. Tone said he had. Mw. Hahn asked how many times. And Mr. Tone replied: “I couldn't estimate, but I would say frequently.”

FRANCHOT TONE—"Completely out."

Charge Is Dropped In Rockne Shooting

WICHITA, Kay. Sept 15 (UP) City Court Judge George M. Ash(ford dismissed a felonious assault |charge against Joe Novacek yes/terday in the shooting of William |Rockne, son of the late Knute Rockne.

Mr. Rockne fas not recovered from his critical wounds received in the shooting Jan. 21, his doetors said, and was not able to come to Wichita from his South Bend, Ind., home to testify. Novacek, 33, a used car dealer, said he shot Mr. Rockne when he tried to force his way! into the was engaged to Mr. Tone when Novacek home. Mr. Rockne said I met her two months ags. Bat that he wént tq Mr. Novacek's

home to buy whisky. she told me she wanted me be- rn ;

cause he was too dull. She said . tt ny Iran Says Soviet Offers

It was Mr. Neal's muscles that Help- to Balk British

dazzled Barbara into first breaking her engagement with Mr.! TEHRAN, Iran, Sept. 15 (UP) Tone. ~—Vice Premier Hosein Fatemi “The minute I saw him in bath- said today that Rusisa has offered ing trunks.” she told friends, “I'to supply vital materials to Iran just flipped.” to offset “British economic encir= She jilted Mr. Tone a few days clement.”

later and announced her engage-' patemi told newsmen that Britment to Mr. Neal. Later she ain cannot force Iran into subflipped back the other way and mission on the oil nationalization went back to Mr. Tone. dispute by her economic ecrack-

A couple of weeks liter she j,w : decided Mr. Neal and his muscles had nang pat the Soviet Union

were what she wanted after all gritish ordered their boycott. and they made plans to be mar- *

ried as soon as her divorce from Fr atémi said Iran had stockpiles Automobile Salesman John Pay- which Jere adequate “for the ton, Burlington, Iowa, was final. Present.

BARBARA PAYTON—"| just flipped."

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Changed Mind Again

She got her final decree day before yesterday and she and Mr. Neal announced wedding plans

for today. Then early yesterday morning j FUR (0. she changed her mind again and E Ohio

{jilted Mr. Neal. 3 “That's when the fight started,” cc — aL

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Mr. Neal said. “She and Tone came home about 1:30 a, m. yesterday and I was waiting for them. She told me to get out— she was going to marry him.

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