Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 November 1951 — Page 9

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By United Press DETROIT, Nov. 29—A litfle toy Panda and .a stuffed dog

standing guard over a woman's purse on the bank of the Detroit River unraveled part of the mystery today of a little boy- who smiled’ up in. death from the bottom of a shallow® lagoon. The toys and the purse were found after ‘unknown Boy No. 7" was identified as George O'Brien, 3'2, and two terse suicide notes were discovered in the room of his pretty Skidrow waitress mother, The evidence,

police

Jones Calls Bell Stand ‘Ridiculous’

Public counsellor Walter Jones Jr., accused the Indiana Bell Telephone Co. today of

said,

assuming a “ridiculous” position to fight immediate dismissal of the utility's court suit against the state Public Service Commission. Mr. Jones will ask Marion Circuit Judge Lloyd D.-Claycombe at a hearing this afternoon for immediate dismissal. He said Bell merely is attempting a “delaying action” in an effort to retain in creased temporary rates granted it by rn

Judge Claycombe last sun

PSC should he allowed to sume mmediate jurisdiction the rate case of Indiana's largest

telephone utility, Mr. Jones said Bv law, jurisdiction 1] reve the PSC wher a court-imposed {injunction is dismissed : Mr. Jones said such d smissa is inevitable... Today's fight Be tween the PRC i is based on r ) 18 4 { n A n 1 1 . e dis Sing the & 3 t ne a o en ne the PSC the eves of the court,” Mr. Jones said. “They are attempting to pro-

hibit the commis something they are Mr. Jones said a on Bell's overall bid—amounting to 310 million a year for tomorrow subject gal of the court suit. Bell's action In regard to that prov he said ated the

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THURSDAY? NOV. 20; -— ‘He Looked Like a Little Doll Down There'—

Toys Pierce Mystery In Death Of ‘Unknown Boy No. 7’

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pointed to murder-suicide. George, his cheeks still pink and a smile frozen on his handsome little face, was found -lying ‘face up in the clear water of -the lagoon Tuesday night by two spear-fishermen, “He looked just like a doll down there,” one of them said. Notes of Despair Newspapers published pictures taken in the morgue and

two waitresses’ who workéd with his mother recognized him The suicide notes were swiftly found and then officers

searching the river bank found the tell-tale toys and purse.

‘Act Is Constitutional’ —

Court Throws Out

Police dragged the river. for his mother,. Mrs, Marjorie Cooper O’Brien, 24, who scrimped along.on her meager waitress’ salary to outfit her little. son in expensive clothes and all the Yoys . little boy could wish fol Christmas. The notes told of her despair since her divorce from her husband, John 1.. O'Brien Jr., who visited her during Thanksgiving. . The Pittsburgh, Pa. father was said to have left in a huff after a quarrel with his ex-wife. Police are seeking him. One penciled found the kitchen table started: “Dear

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Gambling Tax Test

A United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 A three-judge federal court threw out the first challenge of the new

gambling tax today on grounds the petitioner did “not come into

court with clean hands.” Although the judges did not rule on the constitutionality of the new levy commented that “we think act constitutional but we think it ssarv to discuss the constitutional

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federal officials from carrying out the law. The statue requires» hookies and other gamblers to buy a $5(¢ “operating” tax stamp, pay a 10' per cent tax on their gross incomes and register their names, addresses and business and the

receiving wagers for them. Unanimous Ruling The three judges ruled in dis-

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upation was not listed The unahnime 2 x m inded down ht “iy Mr. Combs had filed suit for .a er SOWA bY Lirci eliminary injunction to restrain Henry W. Edgerton and District

to Driver Burns to Death

In Collision of Trucks Times State Service KENTLAND, Nov, 29—A fuel tank truck driver today was killed and burned beyond recognition when his truck caught fire

oil

following a collision with another truck at a bridge on U. 8. 41 r miles south of here. He was

tatively identified as

of Westville.

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you.” 5 The other, written on the .back of an envelop, left instructions that ‘anything I have” should go to her friend Frances Matthews and her husband, “Clifford. Devoted Mother The exact cause of the boy's death still was .not determined There -was no water in the lungs, leading officers tb believe that he had been carried to his watery grave after death. All of Mrs... O'Brien's friends said she was an almost fanatidevoted mother. Her own

Bomb Blasts In Germany Fatal to 2

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BREMEN, Germany, Nov. 29

Two persons were killed and seven wounded seriously today in bomb blasts which police: said political terrorists may have plotted.

Three bombs were sent through names and addresses of persons the mail from the town of Verden

Germany. bomb went to D. Adol editor-in-chief of the In t Conservative Bremen when

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little George had .almost everything of the well-to-do. She worked fiom 4 p. m. to 1 2. m. in a Skidrow restaurant and lived with her son in a furnigshed room.. She boarded the boy at a neighborhood nursery operated by a Mrs. Leona MecClennan, while she worked. Mrs. Matthews, 26, the restaurint owner and Mrs. O'Brien's closest

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friend, refused to believe that this was a case of murder-sufcide,

Feared Husband

“She was making plans "to give Georgie a real good Christ mas,” she zaid. “She had already bought several presents and one was even wrapped up. Mrs. Matthews said Mrs. O'Brien was deathly afraid of

her husband. She testified at their divorce trial that he beat

her. The couple was married April 26, 1947, in Pittsburgh

and moved to Detroit about three years ago. They were divorced last April. » Little George was neatly and ‘warmly dressed when he died. He was wearing a snow-suit, mittens and a little cap and boots. There were no’marks of any kind.

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