Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 May 1952 — Page 2

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Blaze Hits - Meridian St. ~~ Warehouse

As high winds fanned flames + out over N. Meridian St, thou- ‘». mands of spectators gathered to * watch fireman battle a §300,000- . blaze yesterday. 3 Although 25 fire hoses were trained on them, the roaring flames spread from the threestory Brown Furniture Co. building, 960 N. Meridan, to the roof of the C. H. Wallerich Co. auto sales agency, 950 N, Meridian, “Fqual to a three-alarm fire,” ‘said Assistant Fire Chief Charles Gregory, The blaze was reported at 7:59 a. m. A second alarm was gounded a minute later. When firemen arrived, leaping flames threatened other business buildings and houses nearby and 25-mph winds whipped firebrands up to a half-block from the main fire.

Two Firemen Hurt

The blaze was brought under control in two hours, jot not before two firemen werenjured. Treated at General Hospital for burns on their eyes were Walter Brown, 35, of 2363 N. Talbot Ave. and Haldine Jackson, 27, of 616

| | Skeptical they plan | persons on the story of George {Gwen Yoho, 25, who said his hand was blown off with dynamite because he refused to take part in jan extortion plot against film {stars Doris Day and Ruth Roman.

BELCHING FLAMES—Firemen mounted aerial ladders fo

N, Oxtord St. battle the N. Meridian St. blaze.

The fire started in the Brown a Furniture building, which also ui - houses Hodges Auction and stor-| . » age Co. then spread to the roof] - t of the four-story fireproof Wal-| ai e on ri er lerich building. Cause of the ®o i " blaze was not determined. S B N } T Employees and spectators re- INgS vue Oo £ Oo ay moved all the autos from. the Fie Basciat first floor level of the Wallerich " ’ MILWAUKEE, May 19 Frank yoconiey, 48, Ft. Wayne, Ind.

company. Damage to the interior. 400 Hoosier musician |

of the building was limited t0/y),0, jaij-cell cantata won him

They were sweethearts when

smoke. The company opened for , ,.rdon from a life sentence, both were young. But when he [goes to court today on a Vagrancy turned to a life ‘of crime, she. : By the! To the north of the gutted arrested in a tavern Saturday time he got out of prison the

business as usual today. Damage Set at $300,000 charge.

married another man. The 50-year-old composer was . .

Brown building, a 2-story struc- gfter a woman sald he was the/last time, she was a widowed ture housing the Burroughs Add- man who knocked at her apart- grandmother. ing Machine Co, district offices ment door to inquire when two| «I don't, know what will happen of Ford Motor Co, and Van-nejghbors across the hall would now,” Mrs. Grandstaff sobbed in Ausdall & Farrar Co, recording he home. [Ft Wayne, machine distributors, was dam-| A 10.year-old boy, however, | “I came here to try to get aged by water and smoke. told police Grandstaff was not work with my electric organ,” Chief Gregory estimated over-/the caller who came to his apart-| Grandstaff said after his arrest all damage from fire at $300,000 ment in the same building to ask here. “I had checked a few tavDamage to the three-story where his mother kept her money. erns without any luck.” furniture building and its con-| Grandstaff said he was intents was estimated at $200,000 pocent of any wrongdoing. organ he had been playing at by Emerson B. Brown, head of ‘Been Going Straight’ night spots around Decatur, Ind. both the Brown and Hodge firms.| «I had nothing to do with it,” his home town.

covered by insurance. hours. I've been going straight

ever since I left Nashville." ae Safe and Home Robbed It was in the Nashville prison Held on Preliminary

Grandstaff composed his now- Char Over Week End Here famous “Big Spring Cantata” ge of Murder EVANSVILLE, May 19 (UP) — Yeggs got between $500 and

which honored Big Spring, Tex. | | The cantata was performed at A preliminary charge of murder $1000 from a safe in the office of Big Spring in 1950 as the high was filed against Basil Wallace, N. K. Hurst Co., sugar brokers at point in the city’s centennial cele-| 33, Evansville laborer, in the 230 W. McCarty 8t., over the week hration. end, police reported today. Other burglars stole $168 and! cell to be on hand. ing to join her soldier husband two pair of men’s trousers from a| The fame gained later led to in Germany. Mrs. Lois Miller rooming house at 3028 N. New his being granted a pardon from was stabbed in the throat with a Jersey St. The trousers and aja lite sentence began in 1940 as butcher knife Saturday night fol- _— looted bilifold were found under a habitual criminal. lowing an alleged argument with 4 neighbor's porch. | After he got out of prison, Wallace.

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Grandstaff married Mrs. Mildred

He also sold] He sald the loss was partially pe said. “I was only in town three vacuum cleaners to make money. |

Grandstaff was granted butcher knife slaying of a 28an honorary, furlough from his year-old woman who was prépar-|

Police Doubt Hollywood Film

|doubtful of Yoho's tale that two | {men he knew only as “Bill” and | “Willie” {with an electrical device designed {to “blow me to Kingdom Come,” | | because he backed out of the plot. 3

that they would investigate the story thoroughly, They said they would talk to the actresses within. ¥ the next three days, although the {women were only remotely con- ’ nected with the scheme, : ER

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iment at the: In"By CHARLES CORDDRY diana Ufiiversity United Press Aviation Writer | Medical Center. WASHINGPON, May 19— A. native of Charles A. Lindbergh, 50, but re- North Carolina, 'markabl : . she is a gradumarkably little changed by the ate of Meredith Years, is as much a mystery man college and today as he was a quarter-cen- holds a .Mas-

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detectives said today to quetsion about 15

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rigged his hotel room

at Curtiss Field, N. Y., one day work from Co3 {in May with the romantic notion jymbia Univer(of flying the Atlantic, solo. isity, She comes | Tomorrow is the 25th anniver-'to the Medical Center from the isary of Col, Lindbergh's take-off North Carolina Cerebral Palsy we... from adjacent Roosevelt Field in Hospital. ; ta frail monoplane, the “Spirit of ————— |8t, Louis,” which hangs now in home with his wife, Ann Morrow {the Smithsonian Institution here Lindbergh, a tiny, black-haired land daily evokes the amazement beauty, and their five children, of visitors accustomed to four- Col. Lindbergh will pay less out

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Detectives indicated, however,

Meanwhile, Yoho, an ex-convict,

Miss Day Miss Roman

General Hospital, where he was Paul Curtis, trying to stanch- the some Hollywood woman and then ®N8ined luxurious giants for their ward attention to the annivere

reported” in good condition,

Saturday by an aircraft investigating the explosion. found Yoho, who had registered ing to Yoho, the two film starsireers if the pictures got out,” he and the world to his feet, at the hotel under the name of were to be lured to a party by sald. | :

He said he had a $2000 electric”

{ ir fare. {sary than anyone else. flow of blood from his severed/doped. While they were “uncon-| | a " h y found i is | Sl ! Thirty-three h 2 in-! »Gloryi i -8 Yoho was foun n. his room wrist and shouting that two men|seious, “pictures would be taken of| ’ Ques and 29 in ryng. In his long-sought

worker utes of seat-of-the-pants flying/privacy, he has ‘declined hunHe ‘had tried to murder him. Accord-/them which would ruin their ca- brought Col. Lindbergh to Paris dreds of invitations and pleas for appearances, interviews and In the quiet of his Connecticut speeches.

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