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5 Appointed To New Health Board Here

County and City Functions Merged

Four men and a woman] were named today to the new City-County Health and Hospital Board which will operate the County Home at Julietta. City members of the board, appointed by Mayor Clark, are: Stephen C. Noland, Republican, 4-year term. Mr. Noland, publisher of the Marion County Mall, has been a member of the Sunny-| side Hospital Board since 1942. He lives at 1402 N. Alabama St.| D. A. C. Hill, Republican, 3-year| term. Mr. Hill has been manager of the industrial relations for In-| !ternational Harvester = Co. 15 years. He lives at 4638 Graceland! Ave. ! Mrs. Osma Spurlock, Democrat, | 1-year term. A social worker for| many years, Mrs. Spurlock is on] the staff of Flanner House. She lives at 3955 Cornelius Ave. ! Dr. Myers Named | County members of the board, appointed by County Commissioner Dr. Golden P. Silver, are: | Dr. Charles W. Myers, Demo- | crat, feur-year term. Formerly] {superintendent of General Hos|pital for 20 years, he now is presi- |

AFTER SEVEN YEARS—William J. Mersing dreams of freedom from first degree murder conviction. {dent of the City Board of Health.

Bain Advances Date | For Mersing Hearing ors corms

{two terms as Warren Township By TED KNAP Judge Bain said the prosecu- trustee a now is a | tor's office can dismiss the case the township advisory board. e Former Judge William D. Bain or PoE 3 Den trial before Judgellives at 6797 EE. 10tn St today advanced the hearing date parry 0, Chamberlin, now presid-|- First problem of the new health for William J. Mersing, and there ing in Criminal Court 1. {merger board is drawing up the were indications the Indianapolis |. Mersing Overjoyed {1953 budget. City and county

man will win anew trial on his| Mersing was Gverjoved at the Dealth budgets have been tentafirst degree murder conviction. news. 8 oy : tively set and the new board will} Mersing has spent seven years| <I feel better now than I have consolidate them. | in prison fighting: delays’ to his|in years. { appeal for a mew trial. : | “If this lets me out, I'll be the | In an exclusive story in The happiest man in the world. It'll Times Sunday, Judge Bain. said be like starting a new life.” bined spending program totaling Mersing “didn't get full justice” . Mersing was surprised at the almost $4 million a year for Gen-| in the 1945 frial. The former sudden fast action after seven eral Hospital, Sunnyside SaniCriminal Court 1 jurist sen- years of delays and excuses. He torium and Julietta. tenced Mersing to life after a filed his appeal for new trial Under the consolidation the jury of 12 women called him within ‘a month after his con- County Health Department probguilty. : |viction in April, 1945. {ably will move into the city health One cause for the long delay offices in City Hall, Mayor Clark

— tor \ : sal } Up to Prosecuto was ‘preparation of a transcript. The board, which will assume

Two weeks ago, Judge Bain set| The _court reporter who took the hearing Tory Tony he shorthand at the trial died soon ad of the eombiseq pushed it up to Saturday at 9.30 afterward, and it was difficult to, a a de kes an Y et a. m., explaining that “since Mer- translate her notes. Mersing's o_,¢ ; sing was returned to Marion attorney, Owen 8. Boling, said he| . : County jail sooner than I ex- still isn't satisfied with the trans- County Spponenis, of the Jpa1 pected, there's no use having him ation. Jes re a ave ne 5 sit around there.” Mersing was convicted of woul. Seeking lo cec are the ae Last week Judge Bain said fh _i unconstitutional. Judge Norman ini shooting a Camp Atterbury cor- m Brennan. Superior Court 3. is Mersing’s conviction “probably, I in the home of Mersing's o. B , Supe > 3, is should” be overturned POT 8 De 9 8'S expected to rule on the law late : ’ estranged sweetheart, Miss Louise this month.

"A motion for new trial could | turn Mersing free. Floyd R, Man- Wilson, 612 N. Delaware St. | County Commissioners have opnon, chief deputy prosecutor, said, The cab driver, then 38, testi-| posed bitterly the law since it

his office has not decided if they fied it was accidental. He drove strips them of political control of will press for a new conviction to police headquarters immedi- the county home for the aged. on the old indictment. ately after the shooting. Passage of the law climaxed a - | 10-year fight by The Times to correct conditions at Julietta, {

Death on Wheels— | Russ Release |

430 Victims will Die [uf | During the Holidays |.mm.uis wn

; {young American Roman Catholic By JOE ALLISON | To improve your odds, listen to priests whom they seized yesterAre you going to pe one of the recommendations from the Na- day on the border line between

> . {West and East Berlin. | 4307 ¢ {tional Safety Council. | A United States Army spokesThe 430 are the dead. | ONE: Make sure your car is in pan said the priests and a GerWould you like to try for one safe operating condition. man woman who was guiding of the 3150? : | TWO: Start your trip in plenty them on a sightseeing tour were Those are the ihjured. freed after being held about 30 They are not dead or injure hours. «

4 of time. Don’t hurry. THREE: Keep your speed down.

—yet. Wait until Monday morn-| The priests, all from Chicago, ing. . Slow up here, show up there. lare Martin Borowczyk, George That's when the nation Will POUR: Pass cars only when Gorski and Bronislaus .Sokolow-!

part SouRting the bodies and, .... enough room. SKS, afilizted with the National roken ; : ; {Catholic eifare Conference. FIVE: Don’t drive after drink- i Estimate Deaths at 430 ing, even a little. i {Their guide was Mrs. Katharina

:- , {Wincklér, Berlin secretary of the! Just to give you a preview, the, SIX: Stop and ‘rest whenever, d National Safety Council has esti- tired or sleepy. Catholic Relief Organization

c4ap|Cralog. 430 will be killed over the, Six simple rules for a beiter| ated of July holiday. |chance to read Monday's Times| Sey were taken to American Records show 35 are injured in'about how many OTHER people Military police headquarters for traffic for every traffic fatality, were killed or injured. questioning. Simple arithmetic yields an injury estimate of 3150. = These are more than records, however. | . They could be you. Statistic No. 108 could be your wife. | Injury No. 2957 could be your little boy. +Of course, all the 430 won't be killed in Indiana. State Police Supt. Robert O'Neal says “only” 18 to 21 will die in the state, |

| Odds Improved That improves the odds. But if you lose you will be just as dead—or hurt just as much. The odds are that three, perhaps four people from Indien-| apolis will be killed in July 4 traffic. One of them could be you. Perhaps you will be one of the 120 from here who will be aurt,-7= It could be. Nobody is safe.

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Amusements .....ooev000 4 Eddie Ash ..coveevene Bridge Sessrneen Crossword «ccocoescessse 19 | Editorials ....covnnssine 10 Forum ..... sussusnars inn 10

In Hollywood ...ccoeevese 4 Radio, Televigion .vsvveee . 6 Robert Ruark ...eoeesses 9 Ed BOVOIR ovcsersvesesn. 9 * Bports sasisnenesensseall=12 Ear] Wilson .civssesseseed’ ® Women's .coeeessssnrases 5

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KON.TIKI SAILS IN STORM WATER—These three youngsters had a bigtime with their raft in the storm. On the raft is Bill Leppert, 5819 Central Ave. Trying to get a fee ride are Caryl Anderson, 5736 N. New Jersey St. (left), and Margaret Durham, 525 E. 58th St. The high water was in the 5700 block Central Ave. :

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Find Recluse GOP Develops Jitters Left $36,000 Over lke-Taft Feud

By United Press

y ! : ¥ tic Bank books totaling deposits of! Sen. Robert: A. Taft's political powerhouse aimed an-|

" Combined” Program $31,000 were found last night in other sledgehammer blow against Gen. Dwight D. Eisen-| The board will supervise a com- the room of a W, Washington St. hower here today as the Republican National Committee reported several trees down animal when efforts to revive it

recluse who died Sunday. took up the 13-delegate Louisiana contest. Funeral director Paul Lucas, Meanwhile. Gen. Kisenhower AD who was looking through the ef- wag preparing in Denver to swing the assignment ‘and found. in fects 8f Harry 8. Kididis at his aboard his whistle-stop special, favor of Taft delegates in all sev: room, 4681, W. Washington ‘St. Chicago-bound, He hopes to set en - districts. ‘Eisenhower man.

: fowa and Nebraska farmlands agers will try to appeal that defor his best clothes to bury him afire en route in protest against cision, along with the fate of the

in today, made the discovery. Mr. Taft's ‘convention tactics. other six, to the national commitMonday, ‘when Mr. Kididig’ ‘pm ‘to. roar ‘across the tee today. body was found, a shoebox con- country for a clean and decent taining $5000 in cash and bonds operation,” Gen. Eisenhower said-ihe

lived in the same room for 17 deserve it.” years, was employed as a meat Republican fears that the Tafttrimmer at Kingan & Co., for 27 Eisenhower bitterness would years. a damage the party's November Toledo Funeral election prospects had ceased to be a mere undercurrent of feelFuneral services for the frugal ing. Republicans were beginning 62-year-old Greek immigrant who to speak out. Anxiety had become came here from Turkey in 1912 g definite trend. or 1913, were to be in Toledo to- : BL 5 day. Police located his only rela- Remember November tive, a brother, Mike Kididis, Cautious party men increasingthere. He arranged for the burial.|ly were saying ‘remember NoAttorney Lawrence Shaw, who vember.” Just a hint to the free with Mr. Lucas was named co- Swinging battlers that they are administrator of Mr. Kididis' es- all supposed to he fighting the tate, said today ‘the six books on Truman administration, not each

. = still active banks had deposits other. totaling $31,000. Two other hooks. 7 Flom Washington Sen. George

on defunct banks, showed de- D. Aiken of Vermont warned that posits of $2100. The whole estate the Tkemen's “Taft-Can't-Win" . will total more than $36,000, argument could rebound against Mr. Shaw said one of the de- Republicans with killing force on I Tax Claim funct banks had paid back some election day if Mr. Taft proves fo money, hut he believes Mr. Kidi- be the winner here next week. {

dis never collected it. | And he feared the Tkemen's . {ceaseless chant would breed such’ A former Hoosier was listed to-

next.

up the convention situation for the first time. He said the operations of the Taft-controlled national committee looked to him mighty like a Russian dictator ship. But some things Taft men were saying about Gov. Dewey wouldn't go through the mails.

Views on the News— ill feeling that the party would day among tax claim cases which ———————————— inot be able to unite firmly be- a Delaware Senator said were . hind the General if he were compromised by the Internal Dan Ki ney chosen. Revenue Bureau.

Twenty-three Republican ‘gov- Sen. John J. Williams charged YOU DON'T. need TV to see ernors in Houston, Tex. joined in Nola Lowe, Orlando, Fla, forhow the Taft steam-roller is Summons to those around the merly of Gas. City, Ind, owed working. General and the Senator to pipe $388 021.76 taxes for 1932 through . nu down, 1936 and 1938 through 1944, and WONDER who the Taft | The governors were concerned pajq $1000 as a compromise setmanagers will give the chloro- about party unity, the few who {jement approved June 23, 1949. phyll ‘concession to? {favor Mr. Taft just as much as, (Acquaintances of Mr. Lowe in Basa the many who favor Gen. Eisen- “ity i , ow A SENATE committee called power. y Gas Si Bn es ened Owen Lattimore “a cOnscious.. These manifestations of anxiety 1930 to. about 1945. y ariiewate instrument of Boviet aroused speculation that the Taft poved to Florida. policy.” Must have heard the pro- steamroller might slow a nt ON peen in the trucking business. 8 ) {give Gen. Eisenhower 2 ra (One source described him as a ~~ |Some Taft men favored that. But (shrew hUKinesEman whe came others—the majority, up the hard wag..), -—said no.

| Disdain Deal Plane Crashes, | As that Texas decision ap

proaches, there are vague hints of Then Explodes

a “compromise.” Marshall McNeil, {Scripps-Howard staff writer, re] MYAKKA CITY, Fla. ported. (UP)-—A plane identified as. an The Ikemen have disdained all Air Force six-engine, B-47 crashed such, contending they wuz robbed, and exploded in flames three and you can't compromise a mijles northwest of here today, steal.” leaving ‘nothing but & blackened But if the national committee hole in the earth.” so decides—by .the 60 committee - Capt. Paul Mitchell votes which Mr. Taft have as a minimum, it tempt to given Sen. Taft and Ike miles each part of Texas’ 38 votes, Neither of two ‘lieutenants, Reps, Clarence Brown the nid Army B-29 Superfortress of Ohio and Carroll. Reece of y Tennessee, would possibility, Three delegate been disposed of, Florida, Kansas and Georgia. The national pale left hy icommittee voted about pone against Gen. Eisenhower and he

{for Taft, giving the Senator . . ~ Motor Truck Terminal up: today

'Georgia’'s 17 delegates. Lu a a ieda) Destroyed by Fire VINCENNES, July 3

fessor testify so much they have the Louisiana contest — started to talk like him.

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north, tentatively

contests have gaid there were no survivors.

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delegates were contested. Four at-large and two district contests

uring four firemen,

: : nat , ittee, Times photo hy Willlam A Oates Jr ational committee

mittee for adjustment. | The state committee accepted stroyed, Y ’ : ?

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=.drives blocked by limbs.

drowned out the motors of a half AA |dozen cars. Water to the: So 0 of of | Fatliing thers they will carry stalled several cars at Westfield

Louisiana dispute and all Blvd. and Meridian St.

. , or. sple other contests they lose to the Police sent extra cars to Mich-/ . was discovered. Mr. Kididis, who in Denver. “The American people 2U1°0 COTS FHF TO%F final. igan St. And Highland Ave, to Hl lISS@ & lv, to the convention floor. Mis- keep children out of backed up *

sissippi, Missouri and Texas con- water 2! tests involving 43 delegates come Princeton Hotel, 232 8.

Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New basement after running over the York, freshly arrived, was sizing curb.

WASHINGTON, July 3 (UP)—|

when he Goens collapsed in the yard of nection with the junior Senator Farlier he had her home afler suffering from the from Indiana.

July 3

seems to formation officer at MacDill Air may at: Force Base in Tampa about 60 identi- spared to a high of 95 degrees. fied the downed plane as a B-47, leading Taft g new craft greater In size than N,

Capt. Mitchell said the normal

eliminate this crew ahdard a B-47 is three men. Let Somebody

Police officers first at the scene

Search planes reported that the the plane was 30 ~ two-t0- feet deep and 60 feet in diameter The Axes

pefore 1 p. m., Indianapolis Time. Authorities sought the cause todav of a fire which destroyed the Indiana delegation alone.

K truck ter Thirteen of the "15 Louisiana minal building here yesterday, in- Times-Scripps-Howard Washing-

) : The hlaze was fed hy kerosene picture, in addition to a huge staff were ‘certified for hearing by the and motor-oil. Company manager of The United Press, >} Seven dis- Richard Crawford dived through

HOLIDAY SCENERY Staff members of General Hospital posed this view of "Holiday Scenery." trict ‘delegate contests were sent a window to escape the flames. the true story of the convention m. Will You se one of he thousands whe will be inured, end who will ss this Secon aver Sig Forth | ak fo the Louisiana state com P

Workers also saved three semi- —all sides of every dispute. trailers, but one vehicle was de.

erstorm

Three Die From Heat; High Wind Tears Down Trees and Wires Here

By CHARLES MILLER A thundering, flashing storm moved over Indianapolis today with high winds knocking over trees and tearing down wires. : The flash storm heralded the arrival of a cool air mass

from the west. | But the cooling air arrived too"

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

late for three persons, including $a mM... ae ie a. m.. 3 an expectant mother, who died ¢ > Mes is 13 Noon 3 Sysrmign! from the Oppressive Sam.. 8 1 ptm. The dead: Mrs. Valeria Goens, [atest humidity ...... . 90%

34, of 2473 Villa Ave.; Mrs. Mat- : tie Brown, 74, of 1419 N. Persh- a General Hospital doctor and ing Ave. and McKinley May- released. weather, 37. of 158 W. 9th St. | Elmer McCullum, 48, of 1620 Carrollton Ave. was taken home after he collapsed at 34 W. Ohio . : . St. Coming over the city reais the Mrs. Edith Hoover, 4638 E. ro Pleasant Run Pkwy. fell down the steps in her home after she

Hundreds of Trees Down

north and east. : Police reported hundreds o trees throughout the city had Was overcome by the heat.

{ Pastor Overcome been blown down. Reports of | ; wires down came from every sec-| Loe fourth person overcome

tion of city. Headquarters ve-{Wa8 the Rew. iliam Pert Rise. ceived more than 150 calls in two] 1s ted b hn hours. 2 eo was Brzestes oy po ce on Sewers, overloaded by the de. ShATEeS of Sryeny } animals. luge, Backed up and motorists $ horse “collapsed ai 8t. were stranded. Manhole covers? i Seheziey deve, floated away as water. became) e¢ Rev. Rice was overcome more than a foot deep in “some While police and a veterinarian parts of the eity.: tried to revive the animal. The The storm which brought, cool Minister told police he had been air into the state, promised more PlOWIng in a cornfield for several of the same for the Fourth of hours and had just left when the ; {horse collapsed.

July. Garfield Park was one of the! Dr. Charles Dobson, veterinar-

heaviest hit areas of the city. ian ordered police to destroy the

in the park with most of the failed.

: Street Blocked : Westfield Blvd. between Guil-| enner Km ] ford and College Aves. was ! ; :

blocked by cascading water which

And the Illinois St., reported water rushed in the

feet deep. By DAN KIDNEY - Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, July 3— Two policemen, Patrolman Horace M. Coats, former secLouis Daily and Paul Pearsey es- retary to Sen. William E.

caped injury when lightning hit their patrol car at Morris and Jenner, has gone to the Re-

West St. The lightning broke the Publican convention in Chicago to window on Officer Pearsey’s side. ‘case the joint” for Sen. Richard a _|B. Russell. Early Storm Warning ‘| Sen. Russell is the deep South Police and Indianapolis Power & candidate. for the Democratic Light Co. officials, alerted by the presidential nomination. He comes Weather Bureau of the possibility from Georgia. : of a severe storm, were ready for, The Senator's campaign heademergencies. The storm warning quarters at the Mayflower Hotel was issued earlier thie morning. here today declared they had em- | The storm brought clearing and ployed Mr. Coats to attend both [cooler weather to Hoosiers swel- the Republican and Democratic jtering under temperatures in the conventions in the role of “infor 90s and high humidity, mation man.” Further questionThe forecast for tomorrow was|ino geyveloped they want him to for fair. and pleasant weather with aq. along any political informa-

a high of 84 degrees. Low tem-| that may .be perature tonight should be around on a a useful in the

65. % July 4th holiday celebrants may ‘Information Man’ see the mercury stay in the 80's Sen. Russell will be in Indian~ Friday throughout the state. apolis next Wednesday to talk to Partly cloudy-and drier air are Hoosier delegates, forecast. Mr. Coats rowed with Sen, JenBut the welcome relief came ner,- or vice versa, about ‘two too late for Mrs. Goens who died Weeks ago. The row, according affer police and a General Hos- to bystanders, was on a high pital ambulance doctor battled pitch—if not a high plane. Upshot desperately to save her life, was that Mr. Coats quit, or got Expecting her fourth child, Mrs. fired, and thus ended a long con-

heat for several days, A native of Marion and oneDr. John. Culison worked three {ime reporter on the Indianapolis hours using 16 bottles of oxygen Star, Mr, Coats entered GOP puband several drug injections trying Heity in Indiana for the party or to save Mrs, Coens. She died en individ ial politicans in 1924. He route to General Hospital. as since been an outspokenly yl loyal Republican and an archMrs. Brown collapsed at home supporter of his mentor — Sen. last night. She was found by her Jenner. He broke this GOP emniece, Mrs. Mattie Smiley, 24, who ployment for. a time by joining told police her aunt had. been the International News Service under a -doctor’'s care. She was staff here. taken to Peoples Funeral Home. Having done publicity for camMr. Mayweather died early to- paigns. of both Sens. Jenner and day in General Hospital, : Homer E. Capehart (R. Ind.), beHe was taken to the hospital ing the publicity director of the yesterday after collapsing on a Republican Sfate Committee and construction Job in the 400 block finally secretary under the Jenner 8, Catherwood Ave. chairmanship, Mr. Coats took Four more persons were" over- gyer as the Senator's secretary come as temperatures yesterday when Sen. Jenner was elected Six years ago. Mrs. Rhoda Denison, 27, 6f 837 . Delaware S8t., was treated by

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