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Woman Who Passed Bills
By DAVID WATSON Secret Service agents today claimed the smashing of one of the biggest counterfeit rings in recent years with the arrest of three men here and in Louisville, A woman is being ‘sought as a member of the gang. Arrested and held here on charges of possessing and passing counterfeit money were: Everett Edward Hack, 33, of,
Sheriff Has Trouble With Builder Also
Sheriff Smith complained today he has troubles with building contractors as well as newspapermen. The sheriff sued E. M. Bundy, 1527 Central Ave. for $1095, charging breach of contract. The Sheriff claimed he bought an $8800 house at 37 8. Post Rd. from Mr. Bundy in July, 1947, which did not have an “adequate”
On Counterfeit Money Ring Here
IU Veterans
Hospital fo Open Feb. 1
Indiana's, war-sick will have temperatures read in a new veter|ans’ hospital opening its doors. {here Feb. 1. | The 495-bed hospital on the Ine. !diana University Medical Center | campus admits patients that day. | With its opening, Billings Veter{ans' Hospital will be abandoned {and the Veterans’ Hospital on
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well. $ , Later, the Superior Court 3 suit said, a shallow well was dug but Mr. Smith still did not consider it adequate. The Sheriff’s troubles 4were multiplied in April, 1948, when the well started to go dry, he said. - : The Sheriff and the contractor agreed to split the difference in installing another well, and it was dug. But then the Sheriff found he didn't have enough money to buy a pump. Mr. Smith claimed he agreed to pay $307 for the pump, and . a Ada Mr. Bundy $1095 for drilling and Hoosier Reds Called ‘Gangster’ Still Alive— plumbing. > :
The contractor subsequently re-| Fy : Pi cl f FOR FREEDOM—Mrs, Rachel Hawk, Frankfort, national president of Mothers of World War II, [fused to pay his share, the suit IQUr e iN = ro pagan a
helps judge the awards which will be announced by Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge on Wash. |charged. and the well driller and
: IY JTTee0: " Cu ww {plumber filed i inst th on . ington's Birthday. With 22 others, she picked prize-winning material which “speaks up for freedom. a Tarte Rains ‘Sto ry Is on POW List
3727 ‘Massachusetts Ave. David Durward Bocock, 42, of 2266 N. Talbot St. . Each was held under $500 bond.
Brother Held in Louisville
Hack’s brother, Monroe Ellis Hack, 45, has been arrested in| Louisville, - agents said. An ar-| rest warrant has been issued for| a 39-year-old woman, identified as a distributor of the counterfeit $20 bills George B. Loy, agent in charge of the Secret Service office here, said other persons probably were involved. He said several thousand dollars in counterfeit 20's have been .shipped into Indian-| apolis and that several hundred dollars in the fake bills have been!
. OLD FRIEND—Fire Battalion Chief Joseph F. Hancock,. nominated for fire chief by Mayor-elect Clark, stands by a reminder of | his rookie days. Chief Hancock served on Engine No. 6 when he joined the force 30 years ago.
Agents identified the woman as| She is shown with. Judge Charles R. Hayes (left) of the South Dakota Supreme Court and Kenneth D. | ghorift Smith is represented: by
Mrs. Ada Miller, Louisvijle. Mr.| Wells, Foundation president. wr ? bp James J. Stewart, 4 ‘member of ' pay] Ropert Sanders, Hoosier gs
Loy said the warrant was issued «| Prosecutor Fairchild's law firm. gp)dier whem his Communist capon the basis of a photograph ex- eT [tors called a “typical Indiana 3 50 Unhurt in Landing :
amined by Irvington merchants, Witness Says Police Were Called— : gangster,” is still alive. who. on Dec. 15 accepted several | °® : , abbeaved vestetda weird wa von” | Daseribes Tallulah’s- Gay Party (of crippled Plans ° |, 0% ii woes Operating Two Months COBURG, oat. Dee 21 (UP) w= igeryicemen reported by the Reds Mr. Loy said Everett Hack, an| By United. Press ito most of the questions about) The alleged visit by Miss Bank- The pilot of a chartered plane to be prisoners of war in Korea. auto So lot operator here, has NEW YORK, Dec. 21—A New 4}, jnoident—which Mr. Blais- head to ‘the Costello gambling flying from Chicago to Newark, m.. news brough joy to his been classified by the department England businessman described 3.1; gescribed as “an unusual house occurred sometime around N, J. got lost in a snowstorm father, John F. Sanders, Shoals, a as a counterfeit money “whole- from the witness stand today .cyrrence”—but they were al- Christmas, 1949, Mrs. Cronin said. over Lake Ontario yesterday, but on" 4osoribed by the Moscow saler,” apd others as “shovers” Now he called the police at 34,4.4 to remain in the record. |The gambling house was not fur- crash-landsd the. transport on a pi... oc Gazette as a “rich Inor distributors ~~ |& m. to come and get Actress ther identified and no reference Canadian farm without injury to! gq "0 Lo, 3 A Excused From Stand | 3 ts board ana . The agent said the Indianapolis I 2llulah Bankhead during a gay was made to gambler Frank Cos- tie 50 persons aboard, 1 2 : pois hich “curs- i : Pilot B Smels ¢ Bur.| Sgt: Sanders was reported ring has been in’ operation ap-|Party at his house in which “curs-| ar.q @ronin, a silvery-haired, tello, notorious underiorid figure Pilot Bruce Smelser, of Bu OnE te alin. i. Argust proximately two months, but that/!n8 and screaming” broke the ,, iherly looking woman who indicted on charges of congres- bank, Cal, made a wheels.up Io = Ga oTgshy other persons connected with it quiet of the night in Marble- ;j5;ms ‘Miss Bankhead punched sional contempt. : {“belly” landing on a STOW OY Bovielpublicitions Antetviewpds rdnde ed osetfp apd ne tig hreast in New=York =item ==“iered field “less than da mile from viet Ps on 1 a etn three years The witness was Harry Blals- ;p4 pit her and threw her out of : Coburg, 65 mils east of Toronto, Sgt. Sanders, 25, in the No The $20 bill being passed, Mr. dell. 8 manufacturer, who testi-' "i ocqing room in San Fran- Governor Cancels when the C-46's fuel ran low and Korean capital of Pyongyang : Loy sid, is “very deceptive.” Of °d that he rented his 18-o0m (joo, was excused- from the'p. 4 Forfei Order [078 Of its two engines “conked and reported his findings in an oe design, it is printed as an|NOUse to the actress and others i... temporarily to allow Mr. Bon rreiture Order |,» article Aug. 19. issue of the Federal Reserve Bank *f her company when they ap-ip.:qqe) to testify. | Gov. Schricker yesterday can-| Damage to the plane was con-| The correspondent told his of New York. All the bills yes feared In Stoos in Masher, The former maid testified yes- celed a Criminal Court order to fined to its under surface. ~ |Russian readers that Sgt. Sand- ~ f {head for a week in August, hf ; t 2,500 bond posted by) SD ers had no opinion on the : covered thus far carry the serial] terday that the throaty actress forfeit $22, p . ; d number B-70909801D. y ir. Blaisdell was called as & loved high living and once visited William C. Miller for Leonard Dies of Heart Attack Korean War, never got mixed up Sgt. Paul Sanders reeset etep— |defense witness, interrupting the .pse o,gtello’'s gambling house” Leroy Freeman, who failed to ap-| After Trimming Tree in politics, and came to Korea ers were a typical farm family, helbyvill Pl testimony of Mrs. Evyleen Cronin, in New Orleans, but the maid pear for trial on three robbery er in 9g simply “on orders.” [raising seven ehfldren on little S e yvilie Co-op ant who is on trial in General 2S- railed to back up her charges that charges. | CHICAGO, Dec. 21 (UP)—Sam| These are American SS troops. money and anything but “rich.” Sold to Glass Firm sions Court on charges of stealing yriss Bankhead was also fond of A condition of the executive Genna, once a wealthy bootlegger obtuse youths from Indiana and] cs Fore than $4000 from ihe actress .,..eties and sex. order was that Mr. Miller post finished his Christmas tree yes- Oklahoma, imagining themselves Cc Cc lled The sgle of the plam of the'by raising the amounts 0f checks; ‘my, Eyylesn Cronin admitted $1000 reward for Freeman's cap- terday and then died of a heart supermen and now cowardly ex- oncert Cance National Farm Machinery Co-op while serving as her maid and tnat she raised the amounts of a" attack: plaining that everything is due| The Rev. Harold W. Mohler, in Shelbyville to Pittsburgh Plate secretary. {“50 or 75” checks signed by the| Gov. Schricker acted upon writ- At 67, he was the last of the gix!to ‘orders,’ ” the correspondent minister, announced today that
Glass Co. was reported today by Numerous, Objections ' actress. But, she said, she did this ten recommendation of the judge “Mad Genna’ brothers who built wrote. |the choir concert scheduled for Klein and Kuhn, industrial real- Mr. Blaisdell's testimony was merely to repay herself for the|wno set the bond, the prosecutor the United States’ largest illegal tors.
Pittsburgh Plate Glass will Objections by the prosecution. Bankhead way of life which in- auditor, treasurer and sheriff, on Italy during the early 1920's.
|covered Mr. and Mrs. John Sand-|has been cancelled.
After his article appeared, The 4:30 p. m. Sunday in the Wash-| (fragmentary because of numerous money she spent to maintain the wno filed the charges, the county alcohol business in Chicago's little Times went to Shoals and dis-|ington Street Methodist Church
field. In the future, the 241-bed hos pital on Cold Spring will treat tuberculosis patients instead of general medical patients. The Feb. 1 opening date and dedication for 2:30 p. m. Feb, 3 were announced by Gen. Carl R, Gray Jr. of the Office of Administration of Veterans Affairs in
Washington, D, C. Gen. Gray and
representatives from his offices
{will conduct the dedication cere.
monies. Deadline for admissions to the: new hospital is set for Jan. 1, To date, they total 301, according fo Dr. E. H. Hare, the new superifitendent. Until opening day, emergencies will be routed to Billings Hospita¥, The new nine-story structure, started about 18 months ago, can accommodate 152 neuro-psychid-try patients among the 494. Dr. Clifton Smith will serve as superintendent of “Cold Spring Hospital, to go there from Billings. Dr. Hare presently is detailed to managing the Cold Spring Rd. Hospital.
2 Firms Refund U. S.
{$221,000 on Contracts
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 21 (UP) —The Army announced yester.
" |day that a local firm and an-
other in Eddystone, Pa., voline«
ment a total of $221, tracts. Col. William K. Ghormley, denuty chief of the Army’s Philaidelphia Ordnance District, said the Standard Steel Wofks Division of Baldwin-Lima - Hamilton Corp. Eddystone, has refunded $178,000 on a contract for mord than $600,000. : ' The Midvale Co., Philadelphia, has returned $43,000 on a contract exceeding $200,000, he said, Herbert L. Wilson, head of the Philadelphia Ordnance Procure ment Division, said the savings resulted from “efficient opera'tions and cost experience to date.”
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employ 200 to 300 from Shelby- While Defense Attorney Fred G. cluded orders for liquor “thrge the grounds that the bond set Their bootleg empire crashed
ville to make glass wool, fiber Moritt insisted to The Sour Bator four times a day.” was excessive. It is one of the when three of the brothers were oi lass, glass yarn and thread for he was not trying to attac 88 highest ever set in Marion County shot to death, one b lice and ee 'Bankhead’s character, he said it Spent Own Money jo y yo STORE HOURS SATURDAY 9 TILL 6
lon similar tharges. The plant has 150,000 square Was important to show how Mrs.| She said she spent her own, g
i |Cronin spent her employer's money purchasing such delicacies feet. No price Was given, money—“whether for melons or|as filet mignon, lobster and cham-
B i | marijuana, coca-cola or cocaine.” pagne. And for liquor, clothes and : ‘Large Plape’ Reported | ur. Biaisdell was allowed to|besuty treatments. | STRAUSS SAYS:
. : : [testify that hefealled the police! i Crashed n California !and that he saw them depart
BAKERSFIELD, Cal, Dec. 21 with Miss Bankhead and Blake T€nnessean Derailed
‘two by gang rivals.
(UP)—Witnesses reported that a johnson, one of the owners off] KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Dee. 21 TT. oh large plane” trailing smoke aD the summer theater enterprise. (UP)—Three cars of the Tennes- oR ug peared to crash in the Tehachapi| up Blaisdell said he saw Mrs. sean, Southern Railway's de luxe NI; ye - Mountains today, the Kern cropin Jeave “at 4 o'clock in the Washington-to-Memphis stream- SE or County sheriff's office reported. morning to go to the police sta- liner, were derailed here last Zr’ \
At the same time a military jon to get Miss Bankhead out.” night when the train hit a split C-46 transport was feared miss-| The court sustained objections switch, but no one was injured.
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U.S. Aggression Charge
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