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THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS Monday, February 1, 1954 JPogt 7 BACKSTAIRS AT STATEHOUSE City Music Lovers Owe Much to Leonard Strauss By WALTER VVHITWORTH No More 'Little Doc Just Call Me Elmer TAlCliTIPAcnSpAiTi ALOE JAID 0 I JO 0 A oTlOM RTiN Oj EERSnRApg "Tg 1 SllrTO GuHnO AmHf VgMnETf hi A RlEiq I TEffEMjER" rTC aHlDE SffSlt AIE IE SjEffr; A aMSIkSE Si EL ami SEfflHl a ARlnS YSntUTE tIyIneutibnLIyIeIaIr I Take Hat Off k-l mal playing, he founded the Na- ACROSS 1. Staff 4. Promontory 8. Competent 12. Anglo-Saxon money 13.

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Yale 31. Bay horse 32. Father 33. Egyptian goddess 34. Siamese coins 35.

Attention 36. Grates 37. Fitly 39. Head covering 40. That which liquefies 42.

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Ocean 53. Insects 54. Additional 55. Corrode DOWN 1. Hawser 2.

Spoken answer to consistent violaters. Carter said drivers will be cited as soon as they accumulate 12 demerits for convictions, but pointed out if a hearing is requested people who drive for a living will have a better chance for probation than those who don't drive as much. Some Indiana Senate Republicans are unhappy over reports Senator G. Richard Ellis Kokomo) won't be back for the 1955 session. Ellis, a young Kokomo attorney, represents Miami and Howard Counties.

Seems the two have had a gentleman's agreement, for years, that the come from Miami County one term, and Howard the next. Well, it now is Miami's turn. And politicians there are reported reluctant to let the agreement go, even though Ellis is recognized as one of the best senators to represent the district in many years. 7" 4 i fl l6 W7 a 1T1 "Hi MM I i mr I i Y0A 1 I TO. Sy L0UiS tAINItK I The Teen-Airer who took I part in the redecorating of I Holladay Memorial Public Library, 5549 College Avenue, The Indianapolis School Board, i unaer wnose junsaicuon ine I library operates, financed the project.

The council purchased necessary painting materials I and with the pitching-in of I its members, the job was al-I most completed in a day. The library was opened in Sep-j temher, 1949, for the city's puonc ana parocniai nign school teen-agers. Miss Dorothy Lawson is herd librarian. We, too, at Rainier Furniture, ora ror1nrnrnf inrf rtlin nmxr I store at 829 E. 63rd St.

in I Broad Ripple. At the present time our appliance store is 4206 College Ave. furniture Carpets DropeWts 829 f. 63RO ST. GL.

2266 (In Broad Hippie) APPLIANCE STORt 4206 COUfGI Hickory 8976 WANT-AD SERVICE, AT. 2411 CAN BE STOPPED! y3- READ WHAT PARENTS SAY: Wk, A 4 ED WETTING Elmer (Little Doc) Sherwood, a close pal of Governor George N. Craig, is getting sensitive about his nickname. Lou i of The News Washington bureau, telephoned Sherwood last week to check a social call Sherwood and Mahaffey Indianapolis were paying the President. "Louie." Sherwood told Hiner, 'You're a nice anci i liKe nut I wisn you'd stop call Sherwood me 'Little Doc' Sherwood picked up his nick name when he was a pre-medical student at Western Reserve University at Cleveland.

The State Budget Committee still peeved at the State Board of Correction for per mitting 20 guards to be hired the Indiana Reformatory when there was no money available to pay them. The committee blamed Hugh O'Brien, board chairman. O'Brien blamed Jean S. Long, former Reformatory superin tendent. After some wrist-slapping, the committee reluctantly okayed 18 of the 20.

The other two will just have to seek em ployment elsewhere. Bnen said the unauthorized guards were hired without knowledee of the board, and pointed out the board dis covered the error and called it to the attention of the com mittee. Approval of the 18 brings the number of guards at the Ke formatory to 175 still five fewer than O'Brien says he would like to have there. The Bureau of Motor Ve hides' point system, which started off with a bang and simmered down to a thud, again is beginning to knock off a larg er number of chronic traffic violators. New Commissioner Morris J.

Carter says he has given the system some study, that he likes it, and that it's a good BLACKWELL FUNERAL HOME Air-Conditioned 1503 N. MERIDIAN LI. 7115 Operate JORK BLACKWELL 4 SONS, INC. Tkesau 1. BlaekweU, Sole Owaer iyj(; u-iiii-s imuu I He Sleeps ike a Top TUMS Quieted His Acid Stomadi No longer does he lie awake h.

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Wo so kelp yes. Moll this Coups aelew for FREE INFORMATION or if you prefer Call H1. 367S tional Association of Amateur Chamber Music Musicians and soon was surprised to learn that the association had branches in Europe. In all this he was selfless, looking neither for personal dory nor personal gain. Music was the goal, music for adults; but also music for children, a further enthusiasm that led to the annual "festivals" of chamber music played by grade and high school pupilsl His was as complete a life as man could want.

Mr. Strauss was the first president of the Jewish Community Center Associati i. He was a member of the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation, Columbia Club, Athenaeum and Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. He is survived by the widow, Louise Strauss; a daughter, Carolyn; his mother, Mr- Herman Block of Ne- York City; a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Graus-man, also of New York City, and by two brothers, Richard and James Strauss of Los Angeles.

Private services were held yesterday in the Aaron-Ruben Funeral Home, with cremation after the services. Rites Are Set for Ex-Farmer (oeeisl to The News HUNTINGTON, Ind. Funeral services for Wilfred P. (Whitey) Felton, 60, retired farmer and veteran manager of independent basketball, will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow in the Markle Church of Christ.

Mr. Felton retired from farm ing two years ago after a hip in jury. A lifelong resident of Union Township, he was active in sports, especially basketball. Mr. Felton managed the Mar kle Boosters basketball team for many years and once won the Indiana State AAU cage title.

He also was tourney man ager for several independent teams. Survivors include the widow. Nellie; three daughters, one son and seven grandchildren. Other deaths here: Jacob F. Strobel, 90, retired farmer near Bippus.

Services tomorrow at 2 p.m. in the St. John's Evangelical Church in Etta Rosebrough, 84, widow of Ed M. Rosebrough. Rites were Theodore P.

Johnson, 91, retired Jackson Township farmer and member of the Central Christian Church. Services today. LOGANSPORT George (Billy) Geier, 71, native of Ful ton County and retired restau- rant Mary Bush, 77, resident of Delphi. Rites were today. Tucker, 5o, a registered nurse formerly of this city, at Colorado Springs, Colo.

Rites will be here Tues day. MIDDLETOWN Paul Shed. ctrick, 4a, a jeweler here. A native of Mishawaka, he lived in Connersville before coming here in 1938. Survivors include the widow, Jeannette; a son and a daughter.

Rites will be Tuesday, 2 p.m., in the Methodist Church. KOKOMO Blanche Hobson Bock, 62, wife of Daniel L. Bock. Survivors besides the husband include one son and a daughter. Rites were today.

SHELBYVILLE Charles C. Larrison, 77, native of Shelby County. Rites were today in Morristown. DUBLIN Flora B. Smith, 85, widow of Adam Smith.

Sur-vivori include two daughters, Fern' Percifield and Monetta Thurston, both of Indianapolis. Services were this afternoon at Hagcrstown. MARTINSVILLE William I. Jones, 70, insurance agent and member of the First Christian Church, F. and A.

M. and a past worthy patron of the Order of Eastern Star. Services were today. CRAWF0RDSV7LLE Mar-tha Evelyn Rice, 76, retired Indianapolis and Crawfordsville newspaperwoman and a native of Montgomery County. Rites were today.

HUNTLN'GBURG Jacob H. Rauscher, 61, farmer and mail truck driver. Survivors include the widow, two daughters, two sons and his father. Services were today. jWQ IIKE A Solution of Saturday's Puxzlo 3.

Absence ot light 4. Part of a locomotive 3. Positive pole 6. Long stick 7. Legislated 8.

Habitation 9. Bleakness 10. Ingredient of soap 11. English letter 18. Gray 20.

Wrath 22. About 24. Fastener 25. Sound of disapproval 26. Baby car-riage: colloq.

27. Repetition 28. Legal right to another's property 29. Coal product 32. Period Of light 33.

Metrical feet i 35. Building addition 36. Sun god 38. Canvas shelters 39. Jogs 41.

Of a period 43. Ascent 44. Notion 45. Food 46. In the style of 47.

Adult boys 49. Born 2 State Mental Aids Named Dr. Margaret Morgan, state mental health commissioner, has appointed two aids to help out in program development and community mental health education. Both are from Illinois Llias b. Lonen will serve as an assistant to Dr.

Morgan. Dr. Alfred Kamm, formerly with the Illinois Department of Public Welfare, has been ap pointed to take charge of com munity mental health educa tion. Teresa G. Zirkelbach Services for Teresa G.

Zirkel bach, 69, who died yesterday in her home, 1528 Barth, will be at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday in the Lauck Funeral Home and at 9 a.m. in St. Patrick's Catholic Church, with burial in St. Joseph Cemetery.

Born at Dubois, Mrs. Zirkelbach had lived here 26 years. For 10 years she had been a civil service inspector. She was a member of St. Patrick's Church and its Christian Mothers and Altar Societies.

Survivors are a son, Paul Zirkelbach, two brothers and two sisters. It --til on Tom of guy you. ing at P. rstar.i,"'-" se. I 1 "ry I (omoleto details to torroet er bod- (No obllaetieii.) "n-j'-i The death of Leonard A.

Strauss, whose body was found in the Washington Hotel Saturday afternoon, brought td an abrupt end one of the greatest influences on fine music Indianapolis has known. Mr. Strauss came here some 35 years ago to join the Kahn Tailoring Co. He then resigned after more than 30 years of serv Mr. Strauss ice as vice-president.

During the final year of his life, he had owned and operated Lasco Enterprises, a commercial incinerator firm. His hobby was music. His home, 4034 N. Illinois, was filled with the sounds of the string quartets he loved. He was a violinist.

His widow, Louise Essex Strauss, is a cellist. Here was the nucleus for chamber music. His hobby, however, was more than personal. Having a love for music that amounted almost to a passion, he felt that others should know music, too. He worked with Ferdinand Schaefer, during the earliest days of the 1929 depression, to found the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, of which he was the first president.

He worked with other like-minded enthusiasts to establish the Ensemble Music Society of Indianapolis, so that the city could share with him the glories of string quartets ani chamber ensembles. Knowing that amateur musicians felt as he did about infor- Noted Producer of Shows, Movies Dies NEW YORK (AP) John Murray Anderson, producer of scores of musical comedies, stage shows, aquacades and movies, is dead here. He also was a song writer, composer, actor and dancer. Other deaths: NEW YORK Emanuel H. Bloch, 52, lawyer who conducted the long futile defense of executed atom spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

He was guardian of the Rosenbergs' two children. HOLLYWOOD lorence Bates, 65, Texas lawyer and California Baker before she became a character actress in the films at 50. NEW YORK John H. Griffin, 55, editor in chief of the Boston Post. NEW YORK Adm.

Henry Braid Wilson (retired), 92, former commander of the Atlantic Fleet, former superintendent of the United States Naval Academy, participant in destruction of the Spanish fleet in the Spanish-American War and commander of Atlantic patrol in World War I. Raymond Laffin Rites for Raymond Laffin, 59, who died Friday in Hancock County Memorial Hospital, Greenfield, will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Flanner Buchanan Mortuary. His home was at R.R. 10, Box 472.

Life resident of Indianapolis, he had been employed 20 years by the Indianapolis Post Office. Georgia T. Gatlin Georgia TV Gatlin, 58, was buried in Floral Park Cemetery today after services in First Baptist Church of North Indianapolis. She died Friday in her home, 832 W. 26th.

Born at EddyVille. Mrs. Gatlin had lived here 40 years and was a member of First Church. Blanche Grace Hiatt Services for Blanche Grace Hiatt, 76, will be at 10 a.m. tomorrow in Jones Placke Funeral Home, Richmond, with burial there.

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Edwin H. Armstrong, inventor of many of the world's basic iio patents, was killed today when he fell or jumped from his 13th floor apartment in swanky River House, which faces the East River near Beekman Place. Armstrong, 63, developed the frequency modulation (FM) system of broadcasting. He also invented the superheterodyne and super-regenerative circuits which are the basis of virtually all radio receivers. His body was on a third-floor balcony.

Police said Armstrong left a two-page note addressed to his wife, Esther. She was reported staying with friends at Granby, Conn. It was learned the note expressed Armstrong's regret over his way of death and stated his love for his wife. Police said Armstrong was fully clothed and was wearing a hat and an overcoat when he took his fatal plunge. Employees Honor Newspaper Head SOUTH BEND, Ind.

(AP) F. A. Miller, president and editor of the South Bend Tribune, celebrated his 86th birthday yesterday at a reception in the Tribune Building. About 400 employees of the Tribune and its affiliated radio and television stations, WSBT and WSBT-TV, attended. Congratulatory messages were received from former President Herbert Hoover, United States Senators Homer Capehart and William Jenner, United States Senator Estes Kefauver, Representative Joseph W.

Martin, Governor George N. Craig, Lieutenant Governor Harold W. Handley, Herman Wells, president of Indiana University, and many newspaper publishers and others. Deadlier Than Male CARTHAGE, Mo. (AP) Two teen-aged boys and a girl, riding in a car, struck and killed a wolf near here recently.

The squeamish boys balked at carving off the animal's ears so the girl shrugged scornfully and did the job. Then one of the boys collected the $13 bouty. HOOSIER PHOTO Cameras. Film. Seslsaseal an SappUra SI Monumsnr Circle, MA.

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