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I EDITORIALS Section 2 NEWS THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 9, 1952 Atterbury Gives Big Hello To Returning Fighter young Hoosier soldier just the train at Edinburg last Camp Atterbury grabbed explain to Cpl. Schuler that the Far East to arrive for Replacement Center. Durpractically was hand carried When Cpl. Paul Schuler, back from Korea, stepped off week a master sergeant from him. It took a few minutes to he was the man from processing at Camp Atterbury's ing the next three hours he through the processing center before leaving for his home at Napoleon, Ripley County, for a 30-day furlough.

At the left, Cpl. Schuler hauls his gear from a cart after leaving the train. After signing a slip requesting the furlough, Cpl. Schuler stops for a personal interview. Here (center) Sgt.

Bobbie Lockhart, Connersville, and Cpl. Schuler have their records checked by Cpl. George Lee, Philadelphia, (left). Tighter Sanitary, Zoning Rules Will Affect 10,000 Trailer Residents In Marion County By BURK FRIEDERSDORF First steps toward tighter sanitary and zoning regulations which would affect an estimated 10,000 Marion County trailer residents, were being taken yesterday by county planning and health officials. Widespread violations of present codes by a few irresponsible trailer park operators and an increasing number of "outlaw" trailers parked in back yards have created a critical situation, authorities reported.

TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES also have complained that children of trailer residents who pay no county real estate taxes to support schools, are adding to the problem of already overcrowded ciassrooms. To find out exactly what the situation is and what can be done about it, Harry W. Claffey, vice-president of the County Plan Commission, has begun survey, "We intend to explore every angle of the problem and hope to come up with some concrete recommendations for both state and county action," Claffey said. HE HAS NAMED Paul R. Brown, county surveyor, and Willard Barney, both plan commission members, to assist in the survey.

Representatives of trailer sociations and trailer park owners will be consulted. A number already have indicated they favor such a study and have pledged co-operation. Charles F. Koehler, county health inspector, said yesterday several trailer parks are using open ditches as sewers. Some allow trailer residents to run toilet sewage onto the ground nearby.

And others equipped with sep- School No. 84 Teacher Dies Of Injuries Miss Mary Evelyn Hall, first grade teacher at Publie School No. 84, died yesterday morning in St. Vincent's Hospital of injuries suffered 11 hours earlier in a two-car crash at Pittsboro. Miss Hall, 43 years old, R.R.

1, Pittsboro, had taught at School 84 20 years. STATE POLICE said she was making a U-turn on Ind. 136 Friday night when her car was struck by an east-bound car driven by Clarence C. Morgan, Pittsboro. Miss Hall was thrown to the pavement.

Born in Indianapolis, she lived here 41 years, moving to Pittsboro two years ago. A Butler University graduate, she studied primary teaching at Columbia University, SHE WAS a member of Alpha Sigma Alpha Sorority and Central Christian Church. Funeral services will held at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in Flanner and Buchanan Mortuary. Burial will be in Crown Hill Cemetery.

The mother, Mrs. Mary Pearl Hall, Pittsboro, survives. Foot, Mouth Spreads Regina, Sask. (AP) -A fresh outbreak of foot and mouth disease hit three more herds of livestock in the quarantined area around Regina yesterday. Federal veterinarians ordered the immediate destruction of 95 animals found to be infected on three farms on the outskirts of the city, 4 i Harold W.

Geisel (left), executive secretary of Marion County Plan Commission, and Charles F. Koehler, county health inspector, examine one of the numerous violations of sanitary regulations which has prompted a county-wide survey of the trailer situation. Here at a trailer park on West Washington Street, raw sewage is allowed to run into open ditch. (Star Photo by Joseph E. Craven) tic tanks are so crowded that the parked in private yards in viola- not even paid the annual $25 ground cannot absorb all the tion of the zoning ordinance.

Few inspection fee required by the As it of these have adequate sanitary county zoning code. Lack of insewage. a result, seeps or facilities, he said. spectors almost has stymied real runs into low areas, Both Geisel and Koehler said, enforcement of trailer reguladangerous health hazard, the in- stringent new legislation is ur- tions, he said." spector charged. gently needed to cope with the The officials emphasized that HAROLD W.

GEISEL, com- problem. the present survey is no reflecmission executive secretary, re- Raymond Fisher, county build- tion on the majority of trailer ing commissioner, said several park owners who conscientiously ported he now is planning action among the 38 trailer parks in try to abide by present inadeagainst 50 owners of trailers, suburban Marion County have quate regulations. Modern Parables The Innocent Victim By FULTON OURSLER Author of "The Greatest Story Ever Told" Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts: It is hard to know, when we hear people talk, what is true and what is false. Take Professor Chember, for instance. The people who disliked himand they were a great manysaid that Chember was not human being but a calculating machine.

Yet he was married to one of the prettiest women in Virginia. How such a grum and silent mathematics teacher ever had persuaded a soft, romantic creature like Mildred to share his life was his own secret. Older people did remember, however, that Chember had not always been such an unfriendly or caustic fellow. Some even recalled seeing him cheering, as a young man, at a football game. But that had been long, long ago.

MY FRIEND, Chubb Norris, refused to believe that Chember ever had been human. "No, the man is a born monster," he told me, one night, after a fall reception and dance. "Mark my words, he has dangerous homicidal tendencies. One of these days he will kill his wife, if something isn't done about it." "Nonsense!" I scoffed. But then I saw, to my astonishment, that Chubb was in earnest.

He had known Mildred in her ear. liest girlhood and had been more than a little in love with her. Now, returning from diplomatic chores around the world, Chubb had found her again, thoroughly Then it's back home and Mom's cooking for the first time in 10 months, as Cpl. Schuler tells of his experiences in Korea over the kitchen table, seated between his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

George C. Schuler. It was just one month ago-Feb. 9 while Cpl. Schuler was sitting in a bunker near the 38th Parallel when his platoon sergeant told him he had enough points to return home on rotation.

Five Mayor Admits Bookkeeping Is Flimsy Ball Park System Inherited, Richmond City Official Alibis By FARWELL RHODES JR. Staff Reporter Richmond, Ind. Lester E. Meadows yesterday admitted that the Richmond city administration has used "flimsy" bookkeeping methods in recording rental payments made for the use of the city's municipal baseball park. Confusion in the city's bookkeeping and record files was further borne out when none of the administration's top officials could produce copy of any of the rental contracts between the city and professional baseball teams which have used the park.

MAYOR MEADOWS said he thought the contracts were filed in the city clerk's office, but a search there was unsuccessful. Then City Controller Harold G. Coleman opined that they were among the records kept by Lyman Lyboult, secretary of the city park board. But Lyboult was evasive, refusing to produce them, suggesting instead that an attorney for one of the baseball teams involved might have copy available for inspection. The attorney was out of the city so the search for the contracts bogged down into a merry-goround of confusion and buckpassing.

Disclosure that the city troller's office has kept no itemized accounting of the baseball park rental payments since 1948 was made in the Feb. 28 edition of The Indianapolis Star. LATER THE SAME day The Star story appeared the city administration revealed hastily that the rental payments were made directly by the baseball teams which used the park to the city-owned light plant to retire a $20,103.29 indebtedness incurred in installation of lights for night baseball. This system circumvented both the park department and city controller's office, leaving neither with any itemized records of the rental payments. The Star's disclosures of this highly unusual bookkeeping system prompted the city administration to produce a complete tabulation of all the rental pay.

ments made to the city light plant. The report was prepared by Earl S. Porter, light plant auditor, and showed that the rental payments have now reduced the indebtedness on the ball park light installation to $3,470.22. It was turned over to field examiners for the State Board of Accounts which started an audit of the city's booka Jan. 26.

THE RENTALS were paid by the Boston Braves which operated the Richmond baseball club in 1946, 1947 and 1948, and the Detroit Tigers which held the franchise in 1950 and 1951. In 1949, the city paid $2,000 toward the light installation cost since the Richmond team played in the Ohio-Indiana League that year without major league sponsorship. Mayor Meadows defends the abnormal rental payment system by saying that his administration "inherited" it from a previous administration which was in office in 1946 when the system was inaugurated. The mayor, however, pledges ing of the ball park rentals will that a less questionable be put into effect if another con- days later, he boarded the tolak, and docked in Seattle Indiana from Washington by eran plans to take it easy may help his father on their by Henry Wood) transport Sgt. Sylvester An17 days later.

He came to train. The 23-year-old vetduring his furlough. He said he 120-acre farm. (Star Photos Double Tragedy Strikes Mooresville Family Of Marine Held In Slaying 1 me with a new and much more terrible confession. Pale and haggard, he knocked at my apartment door late one night.

I saw at once by his haunted eyes that something dreadful had happened to him. He and Mildred then living in a fashionable East Side hotel and that evening, he told me, he had arrived home earlier than he had planned, after an evening business session. At the door of their suite, he paused, hearing voices. Mildred was talking to some friend. "YOU SEE this glass of milk? Look at the little fragments of glass.

My husband put the powdered glass in the glass he knew I would use. It's the third time Chubb has tried to kill me since we were married, only few months ago No, no, my dear -don't call the police. can handle it myself. I will simply have to be very careful of everything I eat and drink." Mildred is now where she should have been all along: in a hospital for mental patients. She has incurable delusions that all sorts of persons intend to destroy her.

Poor, glum, silent old Prof. Chember! I wonder if he knew, but loved her so much that he kept her secret until his own brain cracked. We never know, when we listen to people talk, what is true and what is false. It was wise advice -that we judge not, so that we be not judged. (Copyright, 1963, be Pulten Double tragedy struck yesterday Roy Cordray, respected Mooresville Their son, Marine Pvt.

Harmon in the morning in connection Ohio motorist. At noon, funeral services were held for Mrs. Cordray'e mother, Mrs. Etta Amber Ratliff. was arrested near Plainfield THE 18 YEAR -OLD Marine while riding with a girl friend, and was flown to Columbus, by state police a few hours later after waiving extradition.

State police told them he was with another Marine, Pvt. Louis Allen Angel, 19, Huntington, W.Va., and that Angel had shot and killed Allen Drake, 43, Columbus, on U.S. 40 near Kirkersville, last Tuesday morning. Indiana State Police Sgt. B.

P. Hughes and Troopers A. D. HARMON K. CORDRAY Conner, Lynn Named Hospital Drive Heads WILLIS B.

CONNER JR. CHARLES J. LYNN Appointments of Willis B. ner Jr. as general chairman and Charles J.

Lynn AS honorary chairman of a Marion County drive to raise $12,000,000 for hospital expansion were announced yesterday by Indianapolis Hospital Development Association Inc. Conner is vice-president of the Merchants' National Bank, and Lynn is director and vicepresident of Eli Lilly Co. The appointments were announced by tract is made with a professional team. "THE SYSTEM we have been using is a little flimsy, but it WAs started by a previous administration and we just inherited it and continued it," Mayor Meadows says. "Next time, of course, the rentals will be collected by the park department." The park department was tablished as a separate city taxing unit Jan.

1. 1952. Meanwhile, however. it appears that Richmond may be without a professional baseball team again this summer since the city has been unable to interest any major league clubs in taking over the local franchise. A group of Richmond bus men has been attempting to organize a semi-pro team as an entry in the Central Indiana League, but C.

T. Brehm, spokesman for the group, says the prospects are dim. at the home of Mr. and Mrs. farm couple.

Keith Cordray was arrested with the hitch-hike slaying of al Worrick and Ray C. Byroad questioned Cordray and said he mitted and Angel "went AWOL" from the Parris Island (S.C.) Naval Hospital Feb. He said Angel had once been sword -swallower in a carnival. They visited the Cordrays Mooresville, then went to gel's mother's home in Columbus, the statement said. Cordray's statement said and Angel were walking on U.S.

40 when Drake stopped and gave them a ride. The two Marines sat in the back seat, Cordray declared. CORDRAY SAID Angel told Drake he wanted to make a telephone call and asked him to stop. "The man slowed down and Angel told me to slug him with a blackjack he had given Cordray's statement read. "I was scared, 50 Angel took it and hit him Drake stopped the car, Cordray said, and Angel fired a shot through the windshield.

Cordray leaped into a ditch as Angel and Drake got out of the car. "As the driver came around the rear of the car Angel fired again," Cordray said. "'The man said I give up' and started run from us." Angel then ordered Cordra to drive Drake's car, the Moore ville Marine said. A As they passed Drake, he said, Angel fired other shot at him. DRAKE'S CAR was abandoned near Buckeye Lake, O.

Two truck drivers later found Drake, still alive, beside the road. He died a few minutes later after telling the truck drivers he had been shot and robbed of his car. Cordray said he and Angel did not know until the next day that Drake was dead. Cordray pawned his watch to get money to return to Indianapolis by bus, he told the state police. Then returned to Mooresville and told his mother his leave had been extended.

unhappy with the man she had chosen, instead of him. Staying as their guest at their home on the campus, Chubb had made melodramatic discovery. IN THE MIDDLE. of. night he had heard the hall outside his room.

He found Mildred Chember, clad in a dressing robe, standing by the staircase, weeping. She held a glass milk in her hand. In a burst of emotion and old remembrance, she confided in him. "Look at it!" she whispered. "It's full of little fragments of glass.

He put it there, in the glass he knew I would use. This is the third time he has tried to kill me." Chubb Norris wanted to rout the husband from bed then and there; call the police and prefer But Mildred would not consent. Once the story was out, she regretted having told it; nothing would persuade her to take any action. She would simply be careful of everything she ate and drank. But she asked Norris to swear that he would forget the whole thing.

A FEW DAYS LATER, Chember died in his sleep. An autopsy showed he had a coronary thrombosis. "It was natural, I suppose, that before the year was out, Chubb Norris and Mildred should be engaged to be married. Why not? I was happy for them both. Therefore, I 1 was all the more astounded when, soon after their honeymoon, my friend came to George A.

Kuhn, association chairman. Kuhn said Connor will organize volunteers into solicitation groups within the next few weeks. The $12,000,000 goal is for the years 1952 and 1953 and will provide 828 new beds in notfor-profit hospitals, he said. Included in the project is new 300-bed community hospital to be built on Ritter Avenue between 13th and 16th streets. Other planned allocations are 324 additional beds at Methodist Hospital, 104 at St.

Francis Hospital, and 100 at Norways Foundation Hospital. Kuhn said A survey showed that about 1,000 persons are on waiting lists of Indianapolis hospitals every day. Conner was chairman of the 1950 campaign of the American Red Cross here and was executive manager of the Indiana War Finance Committee during World II. Lynn is a local ARC director, vice-president of the Flanner House Homes board and chairman of the advisory committee of Indianapolis Home for the Aged. Crash Claims 2d Victim Terre Haute, Ind.

(Spl.) -Mrs. Frances Kibler, 77 years old, Newton, died yesterday in St. Anthony's Hospital of injuries suffered in two-car collision in West Terre Haute Friday. Irwin Metcalf, 62, also of Newton, was killed in the crash. 4 Registration Places Set For Second Ward Second Ward persons required to register to vote in this year's elections may do so tomorrow at one of four locations in their area.

Registration branches will be open from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. at: Public School 33, 1119 Sterling Street. School 81, 3126 Brookside Parkway, North Drive. Fire Station 27, 2918 East 10th Street.

Community House, Brookside Park. general, all persons who failed to vote in either election last year are required to ter again. Those who moved to a different precinct since they last voted are required to fer their registrations. This may be done by putting the new address on the back of the old registration card and mailing it to the main registration office in the Courthouse basement. A new card will be returned by mail.

The Courthouse registration office is open daily, including Sundays, from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m..