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THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS Thursday, October 4, 1951 DEATHS AND FUNERALS Frank A. Beckman, Food Salesman, Dies Frank A. Beckman, 56, 2922 E. New York, died today in St. Vincent's Hospital.

He had suffered from a heart ailment for the last six months. Mr. known in hotels, restaurants and clubs in Indianapolis as the salesman who called on them regularly in the last six years for the Superior Food Co. Before city salesman for the becomin'he held a similar position with the Hoosier Distilled Water about 16 years. A Democratic committeeman 10th Ward, Precinct, Beckman was a memthere Military Service Arranged for G.I.

Military rites will be at 2 tomorrow in Flanner Buchanan Mortuary for Pfc. Edward M. Metcalf Jr. Burial will be in Union Chapel Cemetery. Recalled to active duty in September, 1950, after serving with occupation troops in Germany, Pfc.

Metcalf was killed in Korea, February 12. Metcalf was a graduate of Arsenal Technical High School and had lived at 6312 Broadway. Survivors are his father, Edward Metcalf: brothers, Paul E. and Harry Metcalf; two, three sisters, Mrs. Dolores Tillett and Mrs.

Emma Lou Lake, all of Indianapolis, and Mrs. Nelly Neal, Martinsville. Oscar L. Meek Private services will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow at 1346 W.

23d, for Oscar L. 77, who died at his home yesterday after a nine-month illness. Mr. Meek retired in 1937 after working 32 years as a trucker for the Pennsylvania Railroad. A native of Philadelphia, he had lived here 59 years.

Survivors include the widow, Mrs. Gertrude Meek; a grandson, Charles Gibson. a granddaughter, Mrs. Mary Inman. and a sister.

Mrs. Ella Copeland, all of Indianapolis. Harry Dugan Rites for Harry (Dick) Dugan, 51, will be at 8:30 a.m. Saturday in Speaks Kinn Funeral Home and at 9 a.m. in St.

John's Catholic Church. Burial will be in Holy Cemetery. A native of Indianapolis, he was employed 22 years in the traffic department of Kingan Co. before moving to Chicago in 1940, where he died Tuesday of a heart attack. He was employed in Chicago in the traffic department of General American, railway refrigeration car firm.

He was a veteran of World Var I. Frank K. English Frank K. English, 68, veteran book binder, died last night after an extended illness. Services will be at 10 a.m.

Saturday in Flanner Buchanan Mortuary with burial in Crown Hill Cemetetyite resident of Indianapolis, he was employed 35 years by Fookwalter printing firm, and was a member the book binders union. He also was .00 a member of the old New York Street Methodist Church that stood on the corner of New York and Meridian. Frank Pryor Frank Pryor, 65, custodian for the Traymore Apartments, 1402 N. Alabama, will be buried in Floral Park Cemetery after 2 p.m. services Saturday in Peoples Funeral Home.

Mr. Pryor, a native of Cedartown, died yesterday in his home in the apartment building. He had lived in Indianapolis since 1917, was a member of Simpson Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church. John George Ozman John George Ozman, 79, retired grocer, died last night in his home, 2302 E. Raymond.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in St. George's Syrian Orthodox Church with burial in Memorial Park Cemetery, A native of Demascus, Turkey, he had lived here 11 years. PIXIE PUZZLES METER LOVATE ALERT AROMA REVEL INSERT THE ABOVE WORDS IN THE HORIZONTAL SQUARES SO THAT THEY READ THE SAME VERTICALLY. ber of the Democratic Club and St.

Church. Philident Tishermans, he was a familiar figure along Hoosier streams. Survivors include the widow, Helen C. Beckman; two daughters, Mrs. Wilbur Shanks, Mrs.

McGloon; a son, Robert T. McGinty; a brother, Louis E. Beckman, and five grandchildren. Wylie Daniels, Rail Official, Author, Dies Burial for Wylie mer Belt Railroad be in Crown Hill services at 3 p.m. First Presbyterian fice.

He retired Daniels, forexecutive, will Cemetery after tomorrow in Church. Mr. Daniels died last night in his home, 1843 N. Pennsylvania, after an illness of 11 years. He first suffered a stroke in 1939, but recovered enough to return to his ofin 1943 as sec- retary-treasurer of the Indianapolis Union Railroad.

Mr. Daniels been bedfast since 1945, but associates testify his sense of humor and gay spirit never left him. An authority on the Civil War, he was the author of "The Village at the End of the Road;" a history of the first Hoosier railroad. It ran between Indianapolis and Madison and developed into the Pennsylvania Railroad. Mr.

Daniels was a life resident of Indianapolis and was a member of the First Presbyterian Church and, for many years, a member of the church's board of trustees. He also was a member of the Indianapolis Literary Club, Woodstock Club and Indiana Historical Society. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, national scholastic honorary fraternity, at Wabash College. He also was graduated in 1913 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a mechanical engineer. Survivors include the widow.

Mrs. Margaret Speed Daniels, and a brother, Joseph J. Daniels, both of Indianapolis. Mrs. Susie Crawford Rites for Mrs.

Susie Crawford, 57, who died yesterday in her home, 1828 Highland will be at 1 p.m. tomorrow in Phillips Temple Colored Methodist Episcopal Church. Burial will be in New Crown Cemetery, Mrs. Crawford. a native of Gainsville, was a member of Phillips Temple.

Mrs. John Hoffman Mrs. John Hoffman, mother of M. R. Hoffman, manager of the Athenaeum Turners, died today in Perrysburg, O.

Services and burial will be there Saturday. Dad Let Out of Jail as Twins Die in Fire PAW PAW. W.Va., Oct. 4 (AP)- -Nine-month-old identical twins, their tiny bodies charred beyond recognition, burned to death late yesterday when a stove exploded, sending oil-fed flames roaring through their -room frame house across four Potomac River in Maryland. The babies were alone in the bungalow.

Their mother was visiting a neighbor, three other children were 600 feet away buying milk, and their father, Russell 1 Appold, was in jail. The father, serving a 30-day jail sentence for assault. was freed after the tragedy. West-Sider Shoots Self Everette Gordon, 67, was found dead of self-inflicted wounds in the garage at the rear of 3844 W. Washington last night.

Deputy Sheriff Lt. William Owen who investigated said Gordon had tied a 12-gauge shotgun to a chair opposite the one in which he was sitting and tripped the trigger of the gun with an aluminum rod. By Matt Curzon IF YOU START AT A AND DRAW A LINE TO B. YOU WILL AUTOMATICALLY DRAW OUT A PICTURE. IN THIS PUZZLE 1.

NAME GIVE TWO TWO STATES BEGINNING EACH ANSWERS. TO QUESTION. OR 2. MUSICAL WIND NOTHING. INSTRUMENTS.

3. NAME TWO WAY'S OF PREPARING FOOD. 4. NAME TWO THINGS USED TO TRAVEL OVER SNOW. S.

NAME TWO VEGETABLES THAT GROW IN THE 8 6. VICE NAME TWO PRESIDENTS WHO WERE ALSO Copyright, 1951, New York Herald Tribune Inc. 0 1 A Bernard Riegel Burial Saturday Bernard G. Riegel, 52, 1632 E. Raymond, church and community leader, died in St.

Francis Hospital yesterday. Funeral services will be held at 8:30 a.m. Saturday in Lauck Funeral Home and at 9 a.m. in St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church.

Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. He was a member of St. Catherine Church, Knights of Columbus and Knights of St. George. He was employed by the Glen Campbell Printing Co.

Survivors include the widow, Mrs. Anna Riegel; four sons, Joseph, John, Bernard and Robert Riegel; two daughters, Misses Dolores and Helena Riegel, and his mother, Mrs. John Riegel, all of Indianapolis; three brothers, Albert, Indianapolis, and John and Lawrence Riegel, Los Angeles, and four sisters, Mrs. Elmer Laker and Mrs. Alphonse Laker, both of Indianapolis; Mrs.

Carl Sister Laker, Severin, Connersville, Society and of Mary State Hospital Areas Revised Governor Henry F. Schricker today revised the state hospital districts effective Monday, Hospitals and the counties they will serve are: Dr. Norman M. Beatty Memorial Hospital- Lake, Porter, Laporte, St. Joseph, Elkhart, Newton, Jasper, Stark, Marshall and Kosciusko.

Richmond State Hospital--Lagrange, Steuber, Noble, Dekalb, Whitley, Allen, Huntington, Wells, Adams, Grant, Blackford, Jay, Delaware, Randolph, Henry, Wayne, Fayette and Union. Logansport State HospitalPulaski, Fulton, Wabash, Carroll, Montgomery, Vermillion, Boone, Hendricks, Benton, Cass, Warren, Howard, Clinton, Parke, Hamilton, Vigo, White, Miami, Tippecanoe, Fountain, Tiptoni, Putnam and Madison. Central State Hospital Marion. Evansville State Hospital Sullivan, Greene, Martin, Dubois, Warrick, Clay, Knox, Gibson, Posey, Spencer, Owen, Daviess, Pike, Vanderburgh and Perry. Madison State Hospital--Hancock, Shelby, Brown, Franklin, Jennings, Orange, Jefferson, George E.

Mountz, War Crime Prosecutor, Dies From 'Dead Fall Man' Revived on by Heart Massage Crawford, Clark, Morgan, Rush, Bartholomew, Lawrence, Ripley, Washington, Ohio, Harrison, Johnson, Monroe, Decatur, Jackson, Dearborn, Scott, Switzerland and Floyd. The Governor said that when construction work is completed at Beatty Hospital, he will transfer these counties to its district: Pulaski, Fulton, Lagrange, Steuben, Noble, Dekalb and Whitley. CLINTON Mrs. Rosa Bell Canady, 83, died at her home in M. Wright, 71, retired railroad telegrapher, died at St.

Victor Paloncy, 65, Fairview Park, died at Indianapolis General Hospital Pittman, 43, Montezuma, died at Robert Long Hospital in Indianapolis. SULLIVAN-Rites were held today for Cecil Brown, 65, retired coal miner, who died in the Mary Sherman Ollis E. Bedwell, 31, died at his home in Mrs. Phoebe A. Brown, 78, also is dead at Pleasantville.

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tive colors. Exquisite Pure Silk Women's Cotton Women's Rayon Trico HEADSQUARES DRESSES PANTIES 57c Bright Colors $1.66 12 to Sizes 52 37c Style Brief White Enamelware Beautiful pure silk head- These attractive percale Luxuriously soft rayon trico Gleaming white enamelfloral, prints. squares Many paisley come in lovely and many colors. geometric bright and come frocks in colors. are many well pretty made styles and ium with and comfortable, large sizes.

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with A C. Co. The Shopping Trend Is Toward Market and Illinois Sts. each EL MONTE, Oct. 4 (AP) -Two doctors said today they revived a man who had been dead "for 10 or 1 15 minutes." When Melvin E.

Hewitt, 28, was brought to the El Monte Medical Center this morning the doctors pronounced dead from a fall on a sidewalk. They opened his chest and massaged his After 2 or 3 minutes of massage, Hewitt started breathing and his heart began pumping. Permanent recovery, however, is rare when heart action has ceased for so long a period. Tractor Victim Dies of Burns CRAWFORDSVILLE, Oct. 4- Edgar Orestus Newnum, 67, of Veedersburg, died yesterday of burns suffered last week when his tractor caught fire while he was dragging a county road for the Fountain County High- Special to FT.

WAYNE, Oct. 4- George E. Mountz, Garrett city attorney and former prosecutor of the Japanese War Crime Commission, died yesterday of a heart ailment. He Mr. Mountz also served as attorney for the Baltimore Ohio Railroad and was a former DeKalb County prosecutor.

He served in the Navy during World War II and joined the Crime Commission after the war. He was a graduate of DePauw University and the Harvard University Law School. Survivors are his widow, two children, his mother and a sister and a brother. ANDERSON J. Ralph Dunlavy, 45, Pendleton, died Services will be held Friday for Claude G.

Vardeman, 65, retired railroad Rites will alse be held Mrs. Minnie Ann Urmston, 85, and for Pvt. John L. Miller, 18, who was killed in Korea April 10. NEW CASTLE--Funeral serv- The News ices will be held Friday afternoon for John Ratliff, 83, Cadiz, who died yesterday following an extended illness.

Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Mabel Heller, Indianapolis Private services be haled Monday for Roy Peed, who in France. He was a test driver for the old Maxwell Co. and later served as sales manager for the Division of the Chrysler Consoto WESTFIELD-Clyde S. Clark, 71, former Hamilton County treasurer, died yesterday at his home.

Services will be held tomorrow at 2 p.m. ai the Westfield Friends Church. Survivors include a son, H. Clark, deputy state auditor. LOGANSPORT- Eleanor Bauer Spitznogle, 57, is dead.

Rites will be held tomorrow for Earl Ray McKnight, Galveston implement arrangements are being made for James Buchanan, 83, who was found dead in his parked car with a bullet wound in his right temple and a rifle by his side. A'.

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