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r-cjor Murder Victim's Home The Howard Smiley residence, 447 Hampton Drive, was the scene of the murder of its owner to Smilev was shot to death A car antenna was broken were found on the floor of Photos. George Tilford. unidentified assailants. off and blood and monev the parage -The NEWS Scene Of Violent Struggle Police believe a violent strule took place in this garage at the Howard Smiley home before day. Police believe two persons were involved in the fatal shooting.

Smiley, a Link-Belt Co. employe, collapsed and died in the driveway. THE INDIANAPOLI NEWS SHINER Fair tonight with low mid-30s; tomorrow mostly sunny with high near 70. Details on Page 23 95th YEAR The Great Hoosier Daily Since 7869 "Where ihe Spirit of the Lord Is, There Is Liberty" Cor. 3 FRIDAY EVENING, 46 PAGES CfeA OCTOBER 30, 1 964 Ml Art Museum Move Meets Objections A suggestion by a prominent New York architect that the John Herron Museum of Art be relocated outside the downtown area has been met by protests from a number of Indianapolis citizens.

Edward Durell Stone, who spoke at a luncheon here Tuesday, said he favored a knoll near U.S. 421 and White River as the new site for the museum. Believed Robbed After Fight For Life A Northside man who was known as a "check casher" was murdered after what appeared to be a violent struggle in his garage about 2 a.m. today. Howard Smiley, 50, 417 Hampton Drive, was believed to have been shot five times by at least two persons with whom he struggled behind his home in the Fairview area.

Officials at the Link-Belt 46th St. Buckingham Dr. II Blue Ridge Rd" 7 60 Hampton Dr. Berkley Dr. 447 JL 1 42nd St.

)N 1 1 111 lirr Map locates Northside murder scene. Tragedy Shocks Quiet Street Approximately 50 persons attended the luncheon at the Columbia Club and toured a group of prospective sites of the museum as well as its present location at 16th and Pennsylvania. Two factions are engaged in a dispute over the relocation of the museum. One is eager to have it moved away from the downtown area, and the other group is strongly opposed to having the museum relocated outside the inner city. The News is receiving letters objecting to Stone's proposal.

Here are some of them: To the Editor of The News: How about conducting a "poll of the people of j-tn-i A i i rt nnttrnnili t-t lr Art i- regarding desirability of keep ing John Herron Museum of Art in the center city? We are the hub of a large wheel and should exploit that advantageous situation on all sides. Our neighbors on this great circle look to us for leadership particularly in the arts. Please explore this in print. MARTHA FINNEY 5615 N. Pennsylvania.

The decision to even consider moving the John Herron Museum of Art to an "acro-politan" site north of the city is an appalling turn of events! Should it be some mysterious privilege of a few people to make the cultural blessings of the arts less accessible to all the people? A museum should be a busy New Slogan 17 Butler University, said he and his wife slept through the tragedy. It was the frantic barking of the Sullivans' large St. Bernard, Rebel, that awakened the victim's wife, Thelma. Sullivan described Smiley as a quiet man who usually kept to himself but was a "good When Smiley trimmed the hedge along his driveway he always "came and trimmed the hedge on our lawn nearest the Sullivan said. Dozens of nearby residents cruised by the scene in their cars on the way to work.

Some stopped to ask questions. Six police stood guard he-hind ropes that had been stretched across the drive and walkway to the Smiley residence. Only members of the immediate family were permitted past the ropes. Nolan Young, 414 W. 44th.

whose home is almost directly behind the red brick and gray fieldstone Smiley residence, said he heard nothing during the night. But this morning, the wai! of a small child, the Smileys', could be heard as neighbors and police talked in quiet tones. El cities in the state sev HOME EDITION 7 CENTS Howard Smiley identification photo taken in 1945. used to load a scrap metal melting cupola. Mrs.

Smiley said she ran into the home alter assisting her husband who nearly reached the house before he collapsed. She called Smilcy's father, 7S, and they then notified police. The victim was dead when police arrived. Police found Smiley lying nn his hack in the driveway. His hands were open and empty.

Uberta said one of three things could have happened: Smiley surprised some one burglarizing the garage. 2 Smilev- heard a noise in the garage and went to investigate. 3 Someone laid a trap for him, but, for an undetermined reason. Mrs. Smiley told police she had heard no reports of prowlers in the area, Smiley had received no threats, and neither he nor his employer was involved in a labor or other dispute of any kind.

Police took the rifle to. headquarters to seek possible fingerprints and also examined the two cars in the garage for prints. They believe one of the assailants may have placed a hand on a car. Police said the do not know whether anything is missing from Smilcy's clothing. NEWS FEATURES Pages Amusements 14, 15 Bridge 27 Business News 31 Comics 28, 29 Crossword Puzzle 46 Dear Abby 27 Editorials 15 Family Features 41 Garden St Obituaries Picture Page 16 Sports 17-21 Star Gazer 44 TV and Radio 4, Want Ads Women's Features .26, 2f I MEIrose 8-24 1 1 place, centrally located near public transportation, near office buildings, near schools, near hotels and meeting and eating p'aces near all the people in our community.

FRANCIS B. JULIAN 6917 N. Pennsylvania. Items in the local press and rumors among interested citizens have created widespread apprehension that the Herron Museum of Art might soon be moved to a new location on the north side of the city. Vigorous public debate of the issues involved seems indicated since the Herron is essentially a civic institution, a fee imm avail.

rainiant tiv cunnrtH onH able to the citizens of the entire city. A new site within the "inner city" might offer incalculable benefits to the growing community. May I quote our visiting expert, Edward Durrell Stone? "Cultural institutions are better consolidated. You dissipate your opportunities when you disperse them." Have we not seen enough and read enough of the eroding effects of fragmentation upon American culture? The flight to the suburbs goes on and on, but the city is still with us. Why do we lack the vision that could make it a monument to man's creative imagination? SYLVIA T.

PEACOCK 4641 Graceland Johnson Goldwater Miller Humphrey 0. Trapped Boys Badly Burned In Home Fire Two 4 a old twin boys were critically burned today when fire in their near-Westside home trapped the six members of the family inside. Firemen said the fire apparently started in the kitchen of the two-storv double home of Curtis Williams, 35, 141 S. Elder. All the members of the family were upstairs and unable to flee down the stairs.

A neighbor, Edward Crow-der, 37, 2231'2 W. Morris, said he was across the street about 10:30 a.m. and "heard a loud explosion." Then he saw smoke and flames pouring out rear windows. Crowder said he tried to enter the front door but was kept back by the flames and heat. He said he ran to the side of the house and saw Mrs.

Williams at a second story window. She dropped two of her children, Thomas, 1, and Jennifer, 3, into his arms. Mrs. Williams jumped, but Crowder said he was unable to break her fall. Meanwhile, Williams, still trapped upstairs, broke a front window, climbed onto the front porch and jumped to safety.

Meanwhile, firemen rescued the critically burned twins from a rear bedroom. Two firemen on a ladder, Louis Koer-ner and Edward Ahrendt, were overcome by smoke and fell to the ground. Another neighbor, John Peko, 43, 127 S. Elder, a registered male nurse, gave mouth to mouth resuscitation to the twins until an umbulance came. The residence of the other half of the double was occupied by the Patrick Sheehan family.

Two Sheehan children were at home with a baby sitter. The girl and the children left by the rear door. Wiliams suffered a cut hand in breaking the window to the front porch. Gems Stolen From New York Museum NEW YORK (AP) Thieves stole approximately $200,000 worth of precious stones from Manhattan's famed Museum of Natural History sometime last night, police said today. Among the eight stones missing were two of the most famous the "Star Ruby" and the "Star of India" from the J.

P. Morgan collection. TAX OFFICE TO CLOSE TOMORROW The News reported erroneously in some editions Wednesday that the offices of County Treasurer E. Allen Hunter would be open tomorrow. The offices will be closed tomorrow and Sunday.

Taxpayers may pay their fall property tax bills at the office Monday between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. This will be the final day the bills may be paid without penalty. Payment also may be made by mail until midnight Monday. Hunter cautioned taxpayers to enclose self-addressed and stamped envelopes if they wish receipts mailed to them.

By H. C. BROWN A few neighbors stood in the frosty morning air near the home of a "very nice fellow," wondering who had shot him to death after a violent struggle in his garage Others stared curiously at police cars and motorcycles in front of the Howard Smiley residence, 447 Hampton Drive, as they came to their front doors to get the morning paper. "What is going on over there?" one residence inquired. A housewife clad in pajamas and a rohe stood on the lawn across the street from the murder scene, apparently unaware she was spilling hot cereal from a pan she held.

"This just can't be true," she murmured in shocked disbelief. "It is such a terrible thing." Most residents along the quiet, tree-lined street a block east of Butler University campus did not learn of the shooting until they arose this morning. One neighbor who lives on West 44th Street behind the Smiley home said he heard an argument, and "six nr seven" shots shortly after 2 a.m. Dr. Robert Sullivan, 50." Hampton, a vice-president of C-C ODOR CAME FROM TAR POT A strong odor in the City County Building turned out to be coming from a tar pot a block away instead of from a leaking gas main, it was learned today.

A check by gas utility officials found that an air intake fan on top of the 28-story building was pulling in the odor from a tar pot on the roof of the Moose Lodge, 135 N. Delaware. The odor caused some concern among employes on the first 10 floors of the tower section yesterday but there was no evacuation from the structure. The building engineer, William Sampson, said heavy humidity probably prevented the odor from dissipating in the atmosphere. Man With Gun Found Near LBJ PHILADELPHIA (UPI) President Johnson's motorcade was stopped for a short time here today when a man was found in the vicinity with a hunting rifle.

The President was en route to speak at a rally at Temple University when the motorcade. was stopped a block from his destination. The motorcade then proceeded a block past the scheduled stop and Johnson delivered his speech. Deputy Police Commissioner Frank Rizzo said a man about 45 and carrying a hunting rifle with the bolt out was taken into custody and questioned. Doctors Give Glenn An Okay SAN ANTONIO, Tex.

(UPI) Astronaut John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth, passed his physical today and doctors said he is completely recovered from an inner ear injury that affected his balance. Glenn, a colonel in the Marine Corps, fell in Columbus, Ohio, last March and suffered dizzy spells for months because of a blow on the head. He withdrew from the Ohio senatorial race when he could not recover in time to campaign. Glenn was promoted to a full colonel this month and plans to go back on active duty until his expected retirement at the end of the year. He has accepted a job with the Royal Crown Cola Co.

where Smiley was employed as a crane operator, said he was known as a man who would cash other employes' checks. Since today is payday at the 220 S. Belmont plant, it is believed Smilev was carrying a large amount of money. He was due at work at 3 a m. Police said, however, Mrs.

Smiley told them she believed her husband did not have more than $6 on him at the time of the murder. Smiley was found at 2:20 a.m. crawling inward his house. His wife, Thelma, 38, had been awakened hv the barking of a neighbor's dog and found her tiusoand on his hands and knees in a driveway. Smiley was shot once in the chest, three times in the neck area and once in the wrist, according to police.

Police said Mrs. Smilev told them her husband looked at her when she ran to him. then told her, "Someone hurt me." The death erne was I block from the Butler University campus. In the garage police found a car antenna brokf off. blood and money on the floor and "everv evidence of a violent struggle." Smilcy's trousers were ripped half way down the leg at the back and the hip pocket was missing.

NEIGHBOR HEARD VOICES AND SHOTS A neighbor, Clarence Wil liams, 2S, 43H W. 44th, told police he heard "six or seven" shots from the direction of the Smiley home after the sounds of what seemed to be an argument. He said one of the voices in the exchange was a high-pitched man's voice. After the shots, Williams said he heard someone moaning. Detective Patrick Uberta said Mrs.

Smiley had found a 22-caliber single-shot sawed-off rifle in the yard near her husband. She said she picked it up and carried it into the kitchen and threw it on the floor. Because the rifle was jammed, police theorized that two persons had shot Smilev. They believe that when the rifle jammed, another gun was used to shoot the man. Smiley had just left his home to drive to work at the Link-Belt 220 S.

belmont. He operated a crane that is WHAT MORE COULD ANY VOTER ASK? The weatherman brought out his old standby, "sunny and warmer," to describe Indianapolis and Indiana weather for tomorrow. President Johnson, working his way to Chicago via Milwaukee, seems to have a new campaign slogan, "The vote you cast will be your own and the world you save will be your own," as he hammers hard at the issue of peace or nuclear war. An old-fashioned torchlight parade has been prepared for the President tonight in Chicago. Page 4.

Divided World Sen. Barry Goldwater. on a Western campaign swing, asserts President Johnson's foreign policy has permitted the free world to fall apart, and Turkey already is lost as a Western ally, while the Communist world is regrouping under new, tough leadership. Goldwater's current tour will wind up in Los Angeles. Page 4.

Chicken Game Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, Democratic candidate for vice-president, charges Gold-water with seeking a game of "nuclear chicken" that may end in horrendous death for both players, and continued his theme that Goldwater is neither Republican nor conservative. Humphrey continues his campaign swing westward. Page 2.

Something, Good Sen. William E. Miller, GOP vice-presidential candidate, says the Communist, Socialist and Liberal parties are behind Johnson and this shows "there must be something awfully good about Barry Goldwater" if these are the people who oppose him. Miller continues his campaign today in California. Page 2.

And that phrase also describes the Weather Bureau's outlook for next Tuesday, election day. The temperature dipped to 32 in the city this morning, while other ered in temperatures in the 20s. Lafayette recorded 24 at 7 a.m., Fort Wayne 28 and Terre Haute 29. The five-day outlook indicates temperatures will average 3 to 6 degrees above normal highs of 54 to 63 and lows of 33 to 43. In Indianapolis, the temperature is expected to be near 70 tomorrow after an overnight low in the middle 30s.

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