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SUNDAY, MAY ” ot ta ey TW INDIANAPOLIS TIMES ohh a PAGE 3 sre Ball In Weel raat Birmingham Mayor Is Ready Tears Fall In West Pearl Street Birmingham Mayor Is Ready 7 SLRs i = a. mmm sarong 1O Ald. SON in Trouble Here - on oe Ty ? Ranug Jui slams Ub 3 Fahey - a By JOHN V. WILSON wy: : ro Ss of a crumbling brick house are . ES 4 Tragedy, makes no distine:
Fewer footsteps echo in the cobblestone alley outside.
Those who do pass—the Skid Row. “wino,” the down-and-outer —shuffle by with heads iow, eyes downcast, A police car no longer cruises slowly through the narrow alley. Kate Murphy, the beloved bootlegger of West Pearl St, is dead. Two alcoholic beverage act violation charges still are pending against Kate, set for trial Wednesday in: Circuit Court. But Katie, for a last time, “beat the rap.” A Ministering Angel It was a final touch of irony for the red-faced, .rotund little Irish woman. who had but a handful of convictions in a 30year police record of some 70 arrests, Katie's death came as a blow to the dregs of humanity for whom Kate Murphy was a ministering angel. - For Katie broke the laws made by man, -But she kept inviolate another law, one that says: “Do unto others , . .” Kate fed more bums, gave more “loans” that were loans in name only, and did more kind deeds than anyone can count. She bootlegged as freely as
. Listed das Dead . jsome women take in washings. } But the money she made sell-
Three more Hoosier Gls have ing half pints on Sunday was been killed in the Korean fight- one by Monday—a free meal, a
ing. the Defe t an. night's lodging, a helping hand IB, he Defense Department an to the luckless who went through
th 1 A The department's 571st casu- Die aia wooden gate at 423 W
alty list also reports two Indiana Familiar Sight in Court
Marine sergeants wounded. ia They were: | “There must be a hundred guys {homeless and with no place to KILLED turn since Kate died,” one W. Pfc. Joseph E. Bartle, husband Washington St. businessman said. of Mrs. Mary E. Bartle, Muncie. “They're lost. When she was Cpl. Walter E. Ruff, son of Mrs. alive there wasn't a bojack Lillian V. Ruff, Mishawaka. around that couldn't look to her Pvt. Robert J. Sanderson, son for help. She was the angel of W.
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the rap" the last time.
of Mrs. Mercedes K. Parker, Pear! St.” South Bend. 8 pen Nobody knows just how old ; Ry OUNDED Kate was when she died May 12 g : . | ] 24 * a |—somewhere in her 60's.
: _ Marines | No one knows when she came ' 8gt. Robert C. Latimer, son of to Indianapolis. But her police ~Mr. and Mrs. George T. Latimer, record starts in 1922. And since South Bend. | Kate somehow had a way of letSgt. Charles W. McBride, hus-|ting police know she was ground, band of Mrs. Charles W. McBride, it's safe to guess her arrival was knew Kate summed it:
DOWN MURPHY'S ALLEY—Death closed a gate to the hungry and homeless. . Kate died she probably was the ways had in her kitchen.
And
Crane. {near that time. | “If there ever was humanity most revered and respected wom- the cash register gathered dust. Every policeman, bondsman, bundled into one little woman an ever to live on the other side Sometimes there was - (lawyer and judge knew Kate. The Who thought she was doing her of the law. : Insecticide |short, squat little woman who fellow men a favor by selling’ Kate sometimes drank her own day to buy groceries, But Kate discuss a settlement,
it was Kate, stock. And it was kidney trouble always said: “If I don't take care of
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could hardly see over the bench liquor on Sunday, (was a familiar sight in police She never made much. And she which caused the 10 weeks ail- - courts. spent it all on anybody with a ment that ended in a’ peaceful Row, who wil | hard luck story. death in a General Hospital bed. A Last Venue
Wearer of the Green | She never made much pretense Kate had children herself—one Funeral of Note - isn't meant { a boy who died a Marine hero at]
about her guilt. But the judges, who knew Kate IWo Jima.
Skid
Vaporizers May Be Dangerous
This By Science Service
CHICAGO, May 24—A warn- Maybe she started through the little ‘neighborhood, in lavendar lace.
ing against improper and exces- was all that stood between the bootlegging to support them—no phyms sat down on the curb and] She worked like a man, cussed sense of
Some cynics sald it wasilike a man, even fought like a father said. When the first water that had touched mam if the occasion demanded. never stable.”
it all there was a| in the Battle of the Bulge. A|
sive use of electric vaporizing de- Bowery’'s forgotten men and /°P® remembers. leried. vices for insecticides is issued by women and starvation, never, However, she started. the American Medical Associa- seemed to want to send her to!
tion. [ail The devices use DDT or lindane In the years Judge John me. DTVG and Surgery =
or a mixture to kill fies and other Nelis was on the bench, Kate Helps in Bone TB Tes pests, a nsenticktes ae [became a perennial St. Patrick’s| Nox ‘as 20 are slowly Day defendant. . |borhood tavern. evaporated by a built-in heating | » BY Sagh ik before Judge ih ret Belper oy | wake, big sprays of flowers and a woman. element pr some other heat elis in early March. Hea combination of streptomycin Priest at the service.” source such as an electric .light/sontinued the case to Mar. 17 and treatment and surgical drainage, 28 fine a funeral as a woman still had a charge pending. bulb. The insecticide is dis- told her to “come back wearing Drs. M. 8. Deroy and Harry Who had been a member of the Charmed as 8 vapor or fumesigreen And he turned her free. |Fisher of Pittsburgh reported to l2gies aid. Pn may settle in the” myer after—if Kate was ar- the International College of Sur- In recent orm of crystals on ceilings, walls ost0q in July or December and geons here. and other exposed surfaces. brought before Judge McNelis—| Fewer children will grow up ington St. end of the alley that made sense: These may later fall on floors, the case automatically was con-| crippled by painful deformed |T20 by her house — nicknamed, “Well,” he said,
tables and into food and water. {“Murphy’s Alley.” tinued to the same date, Mar. 17. joints as a result of this treat- J » The dangers from improper use et pl Rta ed jotsts they ivy __She ladled out food as she al- taken a change of venue.”
some in years, {But under The quarters and half-dollars heart as big as her arrest record that came from the bottom of| ragged pockets fell freely into a
weeks Kate
“she
‘charged with bigamy.
{Saul IL {leased on $1000 bond while his
lam Cooper Green Jr. struck a
£ of Birmingham,
barely decided to enough profit at the end of the charge because Green refused to
to picture Green has had a compelling urge When word of her death spread Kate Murphy as a kindly old lady for constant travel,
When word of Kate's death shell
reached the Court House and po-|killed a companion. Shell irasg- ‘Phantom Limb’ Is Put to Work 5
; riddled his left foot DRID, 24 — Patients 00x at Tommy Sullivan's neigh-ilice station, everyone stopped to ments e . Ma. May There was a remember the lively little Irish|
“Kate had| Somebody mentiorfed hat she artillery fire.
, At that point a policeman came pital, up with what probably is a fitting months. had epitaph for a woman who lived |bought a restaurant at the Wash- only within the laws she thought cheerful,” Mayor Green recalls. the arm or leg is still there.
won't that we found he had changed. come to trial here now, Kate's,
tion. - It strikes the leaders of society and the lesser
known alike. So=it is with the Mayor of Birmingham, Ala, W. Cooper Green, long-time Democrat leader. In Indianapolis, hundreds of miles from the Deep South, his son, William Cooper Green Jr, faces a possible prison term, The namesake has heen arrested and
Green faces trial June 20 in Criminal Court 2 before Judge Rabb. He has been re-
attorneys, Frank and Mary Miller Dale, prepare his defense, The arrest of 30-year-old Wil-
new note of sadness in his parents" lives. Since World War II, their son, they say, has shut them pout of his life, “He severed connections with the family,” Mayor Green said. “We tried to counsel Bill, but he refused any -assistance.” Pleced Out Story | The Mayor said he had not {tried to pry into his son's per{sonal life. Instead, he has pieced [together most of the situation from talks and letters, | The charges were filed here May 3 by young Green's second wife, the former Faye Matthews
| She said she and the magazine {salesman were married in their {home town July 7, 1948, shortly after he rejoined the Army. He {was stationed at Alabama Miliitary District headquarters, where {she was a civilian employee,
They lived together two years, {she said, while Green went {through officers training school lat Kansas City and won a com(mission, Then they decided to separate. Both filed counter =uits for di|vorce in Florida, but neither suit jever was settled, the second wife charged. 0 { Only a short time ago, she said, |she learned Green had wed Jane RULi8 Miami, 1n iDecemper. 1050. father continued. “He told his Young Green and the formes with Prosecutor Fairchild here. Wife he had to go out. This began Jane Hill live here at 1308 Cone Faye Matthews Green said she to happen night after night. tral Ave. They have a 2-monthe press the bigamy| «yg couldn't stay .at home. He old baby. He's working as a trive
{had to be on the go. He got aeling representative of a maga hon : |good job, didn't keep it. Finally, |zine publishing firm. Blames the War {his wife couldn't stand it. And “I think all his troubles came Mayor Green blames the war she divorced him.” (from that urge—that drive of ale for the change in his son. 8ince] That was his first wife, with ways having to travel,” Mayor the war, he explained, young whom he had two children. (Green believes. Mayor Green sald he did not, And although their son has know about the validity of Faye “quit confiding in us,” his father | “He seems to have lost his Matthews Green's charge. {and mother" are behind young responsibility,” his| “In Florida, Bill got his divorce Green in his present trouble. . “He is unsteady, or thought he did. He wrote a! “If he needs any help, I'll .be {short letter saying he was di- very glad to give it to him,” Maye Young Green was badly wounded vorced,” his father said. - lor Green promised.
_ WEDDING DAY—William Cooper Greea Jr. is shown at @ reception that followed his marriage to Faye Matthews, whe is now Shoring him with bigamy. He is the son of the Mayor of Birmingam, Ala. : i.
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exploded near his jeep,
| By Science Service |with little success, to rid the pae pinned down in a foxhole by! MADRID, May 24—Phantom tient of this bothersome, somes His toes froze limbs are now being made to times painful phantom limb. Finally he was removed to a hos- Work for instead of against the) Now the sensations are being where he ' spent wseven/man or woman who has lost an'uged to work ‘an sleétrisab arm : arm. lunder development in Germany, “His letters home were always) A phantom limb is the feeling Dr. Henry H. Kessler of ‘Newark, It/N. J, reported to the meeting here |“It wasn't until he got back home has been a serious problem for of the International College of {both the patient and his doctor. surgeons. . “We found out about it theMedicines and even psychiatric] Wearers have reported satis. second night he was back,” his/treatment have been tried, usually faction with it, Dr. Kessler said,
For the next five days, he was!
of such devices are the concen-|ooylq send a defendant named| Streptomycin without surgical tration of the vapor in the airiyj,nhy to jail on St. Patrick’s|drainage has failed in most cases, | may become too high and the p,y, they said, while surgery without material may get into food or streptomycin is “dangerous.” \ drinking water in dangerous
Son Died a Hero
ZInpunts Most of the arresting ee Add ’ . 'took it goodnaturedly. They Mavor fo 0 74 _—ite of hives, headaches and |i 04 Kate. They arrested Kate yo ress p01 [44 J
eye irritation and onei,..... it was their duty. But Lions Club Meeting
a f mild peripheral I in gS peyiTnena) De [in more recent years some exas-| Mayor Clark will address memthese vaporizers. perated officers started taking bers of the Indianapolis Lions
{her into magistrate’s court in-{Club at a noon meeting in the
Ed Sovela, Indianapolis most stead of the police courts where Claypool Hotel, Wednesday. i Next week the club will hold a | picnic Tuesday at Forest Park,! former judge who Noblesville.
widely-known columnist, appears she was too popular to be conSiunday through Friday in The victed. Times. Another
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