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Believe It About Jack O'Neal
By DONNA MIKELS HEY just don't believe it about Jack O'Neal. “They” are a lot of peo: ple.
“They're the men who have worked side by side through-the Years with a squat, white-haired Irishman who. never wanted anything as much as to be “a good cop.” , They're the people .outside but close to the department, who've seen Jack plod steadily and conscientiously through the jobs that fell to him. oblivious to the scrambles aboard this and that political bandwagon for the “juicy” jobs. They're anyone who ever saw that. glow of pride that Jack couldn't keep froin showing whenever he mentioned 38 years in the Police Department “with never a spot on my record.” Now the grand old man of the Indianapolis Police Department is suspended because he was sick and under doctor's care when new Chief Ambuhl took office’ and had not yet turned over. his report on burglary charges against Patrolman Robert Liese. Ironically, previous to the wrenched back sustained in December at a relative's funeral, Jack had missed only a halfday in 30 years. - Some of “they” are gamblers, who knew Jack was never on “the take.” “Offer him a cigar.” €aid nne, “and he wouldn't take it because he rolled his own cigarets.” Some are crooks who knew he was one cop you could trust. Through the years it became routine for some to “surrender only to O'Neal.” Some are fellow policemen, some are the community’s top citizens, some are “just people” who never met Jack but who knew and had faith in his reputation.
= ” x THE ONE thing in common
which binds them is an overwhelming belief that Jack O'Neal never did anything to Justify his suspension in the latest “scandal” in the politicsridden Indianapolis Police Department.
Rookie O'Neal, 1914 . . , start of a lifetime of service.
Slayer of Wife Declared Insane
Albert Wyatt, accused in the
fatal shooting of his wife, Goldie, on Oct. 6, today wak committed to the state colony for the criminaglly insane at Michigan City.
The 27-year-old Wyatt, 1454 S.
Moreland Ave, was committed after two court-appointed doctors said he did not have sufficient comprehension to understand charges against him.
Double-Take
By BOB BARNES
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Three children escaped with!
In 1915, , , Gamewell operator O'Neal.
Azk a Republican: “I'm shocked,” .said former Police Chief Edward Rouls in Miami, Fla., when he heard the news. “I certainly’ have nothing to say ahout Jack but the best. He always stayed away from politics, * and" I always found him on the up and up He's probably just a victim of the things that get thrown at you when you get in that chair Ask a Dempcrat: “Fve practiced law here for 25 years,” said former Congressman Andrew Jacobs, “and I've known Jack through the years. -I've never known him to do anything dishonest or dishonorablé and I don’t think he did in this instance.”
= = = ASK A police reporter, tha newsmen who work day in and day out in the big stone building on S. Alabama St. Hezé Clark, police reporter for The Times since 1913, ‘sums up a 50-year acquaintanceship with Jack like this: “Well, first he’s honest, and second, he’s sincere. If he tells you something you can print it. Anything he says is true and reliable or he doesn’t say it. In
Sgt. O'Neal . . . in 1931, after establishing police record bureau.
Jury Locked On Costello
By United Press
NEW YORK, Jan. 15—A federal jury of 10 men and two women were locked in disagree-| ment today on the contempt of Congress charge against gam-|
bler Frank Costello.
The court told them to “take ,as much time as you conscientiously require.”
The jury returned to the courtroom this morning after more than six hours’ deliberation last night and today to hear at their|
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the years I've known him he's never told a lie or broken a promise, or played one paper over another. “He's a policeman who's tried his best through the years to give the public its money’s worth. When he came up to jobs where you can make yeur own hours he always came in a little early, never a little late. He did a good job when he was chief and he did a good job when he was only a clerk in the office. And that’s all he ever wanted— to do a good job.” Robert Hoover, now public relations director with the Indiana Conservation Department, a police reporter for the Indianapolis News 22 years said this: “In my years I saw policemen go up and then fall down in my estimation. But I've got the first time yet to ever see Jack O'Neal commit, do or utter anything that had the least suggestion of anything tainted. “I think the Indianapolis police department will suffer a severe loss if they lose fellows like him. You can’t just take
Chief .O'Neal . . . 1951.52 brought honor, then: grief.
Turning Up Over State
a broom ‘and sweep the best out with each new administration and still have a good department.” ~ o on o MEANWHILE, . Jack O'Neal has nothing to say. Oumtwardly he's taken his suspension like a “good cop,” never making public what behind the scenes political back-stabbing . motivated the only blot on the record that was his pride.
But close friends and his
fighting-mad three sons report |
he and his wife ‘just sit there and ery, like they were lost.”
Some callous department member even demanded Jack's badge when he was suspended without notice. “It's the first time in 38 ' years he’s heen without a badge,” said his son Robert O'Neal, executive officer of the state police and nationally-lauded as a poee officer who's promised a “fight to the finish’. to clear his dad’s name.
The inside story on Jack's | acting chiefship is that he de- |
clined the post when Mayor Bayt offered it last year. He accepted only after the Mayor phoned Mrs. O'Neal and she talked him into accepting it as an honor to cap his 38 year record.
Intimates of the family say (No matter which side of the
“she’s taking it worse than he is, because she feels responsible.” " = ®
INTIMATES ALSO say that |
any suggestion that Jack O'Neal did any maneuvering in
the case which caused his |
suspension ‘for ' political reasons” is ridiculous. They point out what many’ people often suspected, that his longtime friend Al Feeney wanted Jack to be chief and Jack turned it down. They say other things, too. They say that some of the men
that Jack helped keep in their |
Jobs when he was on top were the ones who “knifed” him in the current suspension. Thursday Jack O'Neal will go before a police trial board, for a hearing on his -suspension. On it will sit men he’s helped, men he’s trusted, men who know him. In their hands will rest the fate of the
| Sports
- ‘ Entersd as Second 195, 1952 "Indianapolis.
Skiers Rush Help to 226 Aboard Train
Heat Gone,
Summary of
he Times
Local Page Democrats’ gain control in Princeton, Ind. ..s: 0... 3 Rep. Brownson asks for full probe of R. Earl Peters... 3 National Page, I've got four babies and { they're all mine * surprised
father tells nurses after driving blanket - wrapped quads to hospital 15 miles from HOME +. .uvesvrnesiinn 3
Two prison officers stabbed to
death by enraged convict at San Quentin......:i 550 2
“Long Tawm” .Connally . of
Texas faces a tough. fight for re-election ..«vvevveeras 10 Eisenhower's opinions as a civilian on domestic matters 11 Sen. Lodge says Ike may be
nominated on first ballot... 13 "OPS _ charges meat packers
with selling “fatty pork”... 13 Father charges Marines Corps
“kidnaped” slain son, 18.... 13
Foreign
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Softspoken GI kill 16 Reds single - handed to avenge
brother's death ........... 2 [Communists charge Allied
plane bombed POW camp in North Korea, killing at least: 10 United Nations
PLISONGIR ....ociivacvessss 5 {Rescuers bring out 19 bodies | in Canadian mins blast. 9
Iron Curtain they come from, female delegates to the United Nation: General Assembly ard in favor of further advances. for womanhood ..... ceri iiian 11
Editorial Page Page {Truman has passed the ‘Internal Revenue Bureau ball back to Congress ... , an
editorial ..... Cessna ae 12,
“Don’t count MacArthur out yet,” say Republican leaders . he’s still a power ...... 12 1s Europe building fast enough
to meet Red aggression? .. 12 {Oland D. Russell reports from
Tokyo . . , Japan is still on
the hook +ueiv... PI 12)
Olymps entertain Warriors to-
night ....coceeiinnnnniie.. Eddie Ash’s Sports Roundup 14
man who, unlike many other (Indiana, Purdue find Big Ten,
police, cared less about the gold | on his badge than the badge itself.
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PERHAPS the clinching view on the merit of the O'Neal suspension comes from Robert Shields, one of the state’s most respected state police officers until his recent resignation. The man who helped crack the famed Robert Watts case sald this: ‘‘What no one has pointed out is that Jack handled this case just as a good policeman should. What did he have® He had ore policeman who said another had committed burglary but who refused to be a witness in court. -
“If .he'd gone into court
never have gotten a conviction. You can’t convict a man because you know he’s guilty. The law demands proof.”
Makes Call
Inflammable * sweaters rorred Oy Truman
up all over Indiana today as news-|
papers put publicity heat on the!
dangerous apparel.
In Indianapolis, fire and police | Estes officials said they have received| about ‘a dozen sweaters which go, 130 minutes talking politics today! off in searing flame when a With President Truman, but he {refused afterward to shed any
match or heat is applied.
Br United Press °
WASHINGTON, Jan, 15—Sen. Kefauver (D. Tenn.) spent |
Many others made their own light on their plans.
tests. The sweaters can be de-| tected by their silky, spun glass Would announce his own plans]
feel,
Police said in all cases the
Sweaters were bought from | peddlers, and no stores have been
own request a rereading of Fed-! found handling them.
eral Judge Sylvester J. Ryan's charge. Costello, charged with 11 counts of contempt of the United States |Senate for his 15-hour appear|ance before the Senate crime in- | vestigating committee last March, {sat with his hands folded, staring {at the jury as the clerk read for
{37 minutes. | As the jury retired Costello ‘again began pacing the corridor.
“How does it look?” a reporter asked him. “fr wouldn't know,” Costello re-
bruises when they were hit by cars here late yesterday. Three-year-old Ronald Hazelgrove toddled into the street and was hit near his home, 1317“W. Pruitt St. 1
Gale St, and Marcia Wilson,
of 2848 N. G crossing N. Olney St. together near their homes,
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Elsewhere in the state, police and fire departments had piles of the sweaters brought in for tests.
on H. Cromer Jr. bare) inated by President - n yesterday as America's
| top Yoving ambassador in Eu-
rope. Mr. Draper is chairman
{about Feb. 1.
went on in the President’s office. ! Neither would he discuss his own plans in any detail.
ever, that he had been encouraged recently by “grass roots! support in the South” ‘for him, plus calls from “some Democratic| leaders,” including “some good| Democrats in. Ohio.”
Carlsen Honored;
Carfsen in New York tomorrow
Henrik Kurt Carlsen receive
He .is scheduled to arrive in!
tape reception. Lloyd's, whose underwriters osure ships. the world over, ‘paid tribute to the 37-year-old Woodbridge, N, J., skipper for his epic but Tutile 13-day battle to save the American freighter Fiving fence
of the Island, N. Trans Ahr,
The Senator did say that he!
Mr. Kefauver, who is more than willing to be considered for, the 1952 Democratic presidential] nomination, said he was sorry! fi he could not tell reporters what!
Mr. Kefauver volunteered, how-|
New Ship Assured
The arrival of Capt. Kurt |
will be televised’ over WFBM- | TV from 11 a. Mm. to 12 noon. |
Loon, san. 15 (uP capt. Lloyd's prized Silver Medal today and prepared to fly to New York, for more honors and a new,
command. . 4
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BoinZz rough} .eeeevvicei. {Revenge is sweet for Bulldogs 15 {City, county basketball scoring
leaders .......” vereierese 15 veal their engagement shortly.
{Comiskey quits White Sox
over pay squabble ........ 15 Speed Held Excessive “ICC Blames Engineer “In Crash at Monon
The engineer of a speeding pas- the engineer to apply the brakes, had not been recovered. forcibly restrained his fireman from Applying brakes man that he, the engineer, would Donner Summit about 30 miles and|from the spot on the east side, shortly afterward he released the where the ill-fated Donner wagon ‘brakes and opened the throttle,” train turned to cannibalism while [snowbound more than a century
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Open light advises Blackwood
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Shortridge's '27 class to hold
special reunion at 64th alumni meeting Thursday.. 7
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THE RUMORS FLY—Princess Margera walks to the train | that will carry her back to London, accompanied by her reported husband-to-be, the Earl of Dalkeith. The princess had been staying with the family of the 28-year-old earl, and it's rumored she'll re-
{50 an iwere killed when their rotary {snowplow engine was swept away by an avalanche. Their bodies
senger train
wrecked the depot - Monon last
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the report said.
The ites tried to reach the 280. but the engineer|
That finding was announced in Washington today. by the Inter-| state Commerce Commission. The engineer was killed and 11 other “forcibly Ve od him |persons were injured in the wreck: ‘'making a brake application,” The ICC report blamed 'exces- said. sive speed. It did not name the, engineer or fireman of the Monon
- College, Central Aves. Next to Be Cleaned
Indianapolis will fireman long broom and sweep the airy; 36, both of off College and Central
identified the engineer as H. as Charles Henriott,
A 19- -year- -old "Monon girl, Ali ei the Chappell, ® aver keep their cars off Cars left Jarked will be
warned motorists .to-Loufaville
smasHed into the station. . The ICC ‘said the {hred was traveling 64 mph. —10} |stickers, miles above the theoretical over-| —The House today approved a [turning speed "on a curve where from Massachusetts Ave 10 per cent pay increase for all [the speed limit was 15 miles per|St., _persons in the Armed Forces. |hour . and | the fireman 1 warned’ Wayne
Thorough- towed College Ave. cleaned train
and Central Ave.
SENTENCED IN “ROBBERY—A mothor. her 25.yoaicld son, ond hes tenced in Milwaukee Federal Court yesterday for the $11,600 rob
Bank. Left to right, = are: Charles French Jr
tence; Mrs. Esther A
er diuglfer, 14, Wor senof the Laone, Wi and drew a Mp rol
sentenced to five
« who planned the rob ia Whiting; Green Bay, Wis, who was
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Food Low In Blizzard
By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 13 ~Dog sleds, ski teams and snow weasels battled up both sides of the Sierra Nevada
Mountains today. They were out to réscue 228 persons trapped without heat or -
[light in the snowbound Streams {liner City of San Francisco.
A veteran highway superine tendent at Donner Summit said
| the snow rescue teams “weren't | getting anyplace.”
“It's a, white hell,” he said. “Everything's down. Just a big
| blizzard with no beginning and {no end.”
Winds up to 100 miles an hour
{howled over the stranded train,
The 6th Army rushed rescue crews equipped with six weasels by truck to Colfax where the weasels and two high patrol cars were to be loaded on flat cars. And engine equipped with a rotary-type snowplow will try to
(haul the equipment as close to {the trapped train as possible.
The Army crews included two
|doctors, six medical men, and a
quantity of medicines. 8 Children Sick
Food was reported running short aboard the snowbound
|train. Six children were sick and {six adults suffered heart attacks,
(one passenger said, A 16-car Pullman train also |was- ordered to move as far as possible up the mountains to bring the passengers down if they are freed from their 48-hour jordeal. Meanwhile, another relief train
| fought its way up the eastern
slope of the mountains from Truckee, Cal., near the Nevada | border. It also carried doctors
| who expected to make the last | few miles by dog sled, The sleds
{and dogs were carried aboard the
{relief train.
Already, the rescue operation
had claimed two lives.
Englpoer Rolly R.. Raymond, a machinist named Lopez
They died on the west side of
Snow 14 Feet Deep Driven to desperation by cold
it| {that “fit to your face like a death
mask” in December, 1846, and
\January, 1847, the 81 members of
the party turned to pack animals tand finally infant children for
{food. Only 45 survived.
Snow was piled up 14 feet
"(around the City of San Francisco.
‘Roy Clator, a member of a ‘rescue group that reached the train last night, said older pas-
Street Conntissioner James B. sengers lay in their berths and tO reclining - seats, swathed. in tWolpjankets. Younger passengers
gathered in the club car, “taking
Parking it more or less as a lark.’ The rescue party reached the shortly after its diesel nit ran out of fuel, cutting off
from Ft. the lights and heat. The dining Ave. to the canal.
car was nearly out of food and
there was no medicine aboard for
{several sick persons.
The rescue team fought through
blizzards for five hours to cover the 13-mile trip from Soda {Springs to the stranded train, They carried 200 pounds of food (as well as medical supplies.
The train carried 196 passene
{gers and a crew of 30. It left {Chicago "at 7 p. m. Friday and |was to have arrived in San Fran[cisco Sunday morning.
The train gained the Donner
[Summit and started down the [western descent. It was stopped |cold by snowslides at noon Suns {day and had not. moved yet.
The rainfall in Los Angeles
|reached 9.48 inches for the season, compared with a normal of > 65 inches.
Fender Tag Ends At County Jail
The game of YS tag began
in front of City Hall. It continued south on Alabama St. past the Courthouse.
The other car crowded him on
the left; then on the right, Sherit's Lt: Thornton Biddle said. At | Washington St, it sideswiped the ‘officer’s auto. ’
Biddle Te e game don-
tinue, . yesterday afternoon, until the two cars were in front of the County Jail. There, appropriately, o Th he said, “You're it.”
“He took Willis Huddleston, 28,
of 641 S. Missouri St. inside and
a him nt angst