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OBITUARIES THE I DI AN APOLIS NEWS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1945 Soldier in Terre Haute Wreck Gets $135,000 Funeral Service for Mrs. M'Leay Will Be Tuesday The body of Mrs. Myrtle McLeay, 61, who died Friday of a heart attack in her home, 2033 1 H' PHEASANT LOSER IN HUN TINGTpN VI SI Special to The Xadiinapolis Kewi HUNTINGTON, Nov. 17 When a cock pheasant came to town to-visit Carl Burkhart's chickens be xk a long chance and lost. Mrs.

Burkhart called her husband by telephone when she saw the visitor and Burkhart unlirabered his shotgun with deadly effect. Mrs. Burkhart changed, her dinner menu to pheasant and everybody was pleased, even the roosters, which did not appreciate the pheasant's lordly manners and belligerency. jGeorge Canngday jFuneral Services jto Be Held Sunday Brief services for George W. Cannaday, 78, 388 South Audubon road, who died Friday, will be held Sunday at 2 p.

m. in Moore Mortuaries Irvington ChapeL The I body then will be taken to the McCarthy funeral home at Fort-vilie. Funeral services will be held in the Cyntheanne Christian i church, north of Fort vi He Monday at 2 p. rn. Burial will be in I Stoney Creek cemetery.

Mr. Cannaday, a former Indi- anapolis merchant, was a member of the Cyntheanne church and of i kt I tMMiM it i itiui wi AlT CrOSH VlCtllTI I A a. In JuDuneSe ATeO Second Lt. James J. Marvel, 25, 10 Eastern avenue, was killed in i 1 an airplane accident over Evfin according to a telegram received from the war department.

Fur- trn I kAnnAnxi ther deUil. of the rash r.BUr,Cl1 fWOndCiy. 1 'jf j' the triplet sons of Mr. and Mrs. George D.

Shults, Dennis DeWitt and Danny Eugene, Their birth father frcm the Navy. WITH NURSES Shown here ore Muncie They are Donald Wayne, brought about the release of thei If. ZJ A. 4 the Independent Order of Odd nwi c. Survivors include two sons.

Ross! R. and Paul E. Cannaday. Indian-( a stepson, Everett Edwards, North Vernon; a brother. Charles M.

Cannaday, Indianapolis: eight grandchildren and one great- grandchild. at Crawfordsville 'V 64 Services will be held Monday at 2 p. m. at Crawfordsville for Harry G. Evans, 67, Indianapolis newspaper and advertising man, who died at his home, 4243 Graceland i avenue, late Friday after a brief illness.

Burial will be in Oak Hill rmterv. Crawfordsville. i CHICAGO, Nov. 17 (UP) Richard Stoddard, 22. veteran from Jackson, was awarded $133, 000 damages Friday night for in-juries suffered in 4 wreck of the Chicago Eastern Illinois rail road's Dixie Flyer in September.

1944. Stoddard, a B-24 tailgunner who flew' fifty missions over Europe, brought suit in federal district court as the" result of the wreck near Terre Haute. ih which he was injured and his twin" brother. Robert, was killed. He charged that the wreck resulted from negligence of the train's engineer, F.

O. Blair. Farm-ersburg. and Fireman Louis Rausch. Evansville, Ind.

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Market Mcmbf rdrl Dpolt Xniurtnc Corporation adout IHMMBHaaiaiBiaMaMiiiaiHM Mr. Evans was state editor of lin said, but fired the gun, hit-the Indianapolis Star for several tine Goodlin in the chest, years and later was telegraph edi-i The shot aroused Russell Luther, tor of the Louisville fKy.) Tinfes. 70. a farmhand. Mrs.

Goodlin said Subsequently he became secretary 1 she screamed and Hahn threatened and managing -director of the! to shoot her if she continued to Louisville Convention Bureau and scream. She said Hahn handed the also; served as secretary of the shotgun to Luther and left the Louisville board of park commis-1 house. sioners. Road blocks were set up on all Born at Russellville. the son of Chways by state police, and Ft.

James E. and Joan Graham 'Evans. I f6 nollce and A.Ilen county of-Mn. Evans spent his early years' in searched cornfields and Crawfordsville. where he wfls i woods until Hahn was appre- PARENTS OF TRIPLETS George D.

Shults, Muncie, is shown here as he visits his wife, mother of triplets. He made a nurried trip from his Navy base at Little Creek, Vrginia. lacking. Lt. Marvel was a life resident! of Indianapolis.

He attended High School and was employed at the Allison division of General Motors Corporation, before going into the service in May, 1943, He went overseas in August, 1945. He was a pilot of a P-38 fighter plane. Survivors include the widow, Mrs. Dorothy Mae Marvel; a son. Michael Lynn Marvel, and a daughter, Diana Lee Marvel, Indianapolis; his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. James R. Marvel; a sister. Mrs. Robert Weiss, and his grandmother, Mrs.

Alice Marvel, all of Indianapolis. Egan Leek Killed En Route Home on Nayy Leave The day. he was expected home, telegram was received announc ing the death last Friday of Radioman 1-C Dennis Egan Leek, Indianapolis, newspaper man on leave in the Navy, who was killed in fall from a train near Portland, on his way home. Leek was a member of the "ty staff of the Indianapolis Times from September, 1939, until he joined the Navy in January, 1942. He would have been thirty-three this Sunday Details of the tragedy were re ceived by his mother, Mrs.

Helen E. Lacy, 2263 North Pennsylvania street. Mr. Leek received his boot training at the Great Lakes naval training station, after which he was sent to the Naval Armory here for radio training. He was then assigned as an instructor in radio code at the preflight base at Athens, Ga.

After further train- irifT at (ha ttnivercit nf Phirafrt he was shipped overseas in Octo- ber, 1944. Mr. Leek served with a P-T squadron at Leyte and Borneo, returned to the Philippines and arrived back in this country early this month. A graduate of Cathedral High School. Mr.

Leek was associated with several brokerage concerns before joining the Times. The body, coming with escort, is expected within a few days. He was a member of SS. Peter and Paul cathedral and the Civic Theater. Mr.

Leek was "widely known as if graduat4Ki from the Crawfordsville High School. Later he attended Wabash College, where he was a member of Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. His first newspaper job was with the Crawfordsville Journal. Recently he had been connected with convention bureaus at Toledo and Niagara Falls and with the Ben Hur Life Association at Crawfordsville. i At the time of his death.

Mr. Evans was associated with the Sidener VanRiper, Inc. Broadway, will be placed in Wash-j inzton park mausoleum Tuesday following service at 10 m. in: Flanner it Buchanan The Rev. If.

E. Rerigo, pastor of the Methodist church at will officiate. Mrs. McLeay was born in To-j ronto, Canada, and was graduated from the Berin and Waterloo Hos-, pital near St. Mary's, Ontario.

She also was a member of the Vic-' torian Order of Nurses there. The iaf fan vin naa V) private younger nurses for military serv-j ice. She was the widow of Her- man McLeay. Survivors are a daughter, Miss Jean McLeay, Indianapolis, and a oromer, vrorgr ahuku, toon, Saskatchewan, Canada. ELMER N.

BARNES Elmer Newton Barnes, 45, wbo I'6 JU r.2!2 North Olney street, will be buried Monday in Washington Park cemetery following services at 2 p. m. in Moore Mortuaries Northeast Chapel. Me had been a tool maker far th Batterv Com-? pany approximately eighteen years. 'Mr.

Barnes was born at Mt, Sterling. but -had lived in Indianapolis twenty-five years. He was a member of the Bright-wood Methodist church. Survivors include the widow, Mrs. Dorothy a daugh ter.

Mrs. Betty Jean Champion, Indianapolis; a son, Robert Barnes, Indianapolis; his father. Charles Barnes, Jeffersonville, four brothers. Albert Barnes. Phoenix, Clay and George Barnes, and Pfc.

Everett Barnes, stationed at Santa Ana, three sisters. Mrs. Eunice Van Sickle, Mrs. Nancy Meeker and Mrs. Alice Horning.

Indianapolis, and two grandchildren. MRS. KATIE BO ITER Mrs. Katie Boyer. 62, 2322 North Denny street, who died Friday, will be buried in Washington Park cemetery Monday following private funeral services at 10 a.

m. In Moore Mortuaries Northeast Chapel. The Rev. Almon J. Coble, pastor of the Washington Street Methodift churcrti, will officiate.

Mrs. Boyer was born at Jeffersonville but had lived In Indianapolis forty-three years. She was a member of the Methodist church at Charlestown. and had, attended the Brlghtwood Methodist church for several years. Survivors Include the husband.

David Boyer; two daughters, Mrs Juanita Rice, Indianapolis and Mrs. Madeline Wiener, Lop Angeles; three sons, Irwin ami Paul Boyer, Indianapolis, and Ellsworth Boyer, Lousville; the mother, Mrs. Nettie Kleber, Indianapolis; ten grandchildren and one great-grandchild. MRS. DORA SEGAL Mrs.

Dora Segal, 70. former Indianapolis resident who died Friday In a Terre Haute hospital, will be burled Sunday in Knesses- Israel cemetery following services ar 2 p. m. in the Aaron-Ruben; funeral home. Rabbi David S.

Shapiro, of Knesses-Israel Hebrew, rontrreaation. and Cantor Leon; Levin will officiate. Mrs. Segal was born in Russia, Hut hH 1lvH in Inrliansnnlis forty-five years before going to! Terre Haute. Survivors Include three daughters.

Miss Mary Segal. Cleveland. Mrs. Bertha Freiburg. Erie.

and Mrs. MarTuel Dobrew, Terre Haute; sister. Mrs. M. Becker, Boston; a brother, Charles Fagotskl, Boston; five grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

MRS. MARY B. ROBERTSON Mrs. Mary Belle Robertson. 30.

wno nea iuesaa in nr. llUo uroii avenur. wn uuuru iu-day at Brooklyn cemetery, following services in her home. The Rev. F.

W. Hartsock, pastor of the Fairfax Baptist church, had charge of the services. Survivors include the husband. William Robertson; a son, -Billle Lee Robertson; her parents, Mr. and O.

F. Lee, Indianapolis; two sisters. Miss Lillie Kay Lee-and Miss Louella Lee. Indianapolis, and a brother, Seaman 1-C Richmard Lee, a member of the coast guard, now en route home from the South Pacific. MISS IRENE McAVOY Miss Irene M.

McAvoy, 42, who died in her home, 1826 South Meridian street, after a long illness, will be buried Monday in Calvary cemetery following services at. 9 a. m. in the Lauck funeral home and requiem high mass at 9:30 o'clock in Sacred Heart Catholic church. She was a member of the Sacred Heart church.

Miss McAvoy was born at Rich mond, but had lived in Indianapolis of her life. Survivors are the parents. Mr. and Mrsu John J. McAvoy, Indianapolis, and two brothers.

Frank McAvoy and James McAvoy, Indi anapolis. MRS. CLEODUS HIATT Mrs. Cleodus Hiatt, 583 East Drive, Woodruff Place, who died in her home Wednesday, was buried today in South Mound cemetery, New Castle, following services in the residence and in! New Castle Christian church. Hiatt had lived in New Castle! until a year ago, when she moved to Indianapolis.

0 Memorial for Gavirv A memorial meeting in. honor of the late James L. Gavin will be held Wedne? day at 11 a. m. in the Marion county circuit courtroom, courthouse.

The Indianapolis Bar Association will have charge. I uj rcjeaKiiai, i a a Hazleton Girl Heads I. U. Newspaper Staff BLOOMINGTON. Nov.

17 (AP Appointment of Dotia Jane Harrington, of Haileton. as editor of the Indiana Daily Student for the second half of the current semester has been announced by Professor John E. Stempel. head of the Indiana University Journalism department. Other appointees are: Managing editor, Mildred Wyatt, Gary; campus editor, James Sale, Dillsboro; city editor, Joanne Whiterfeck.

Warsaw; sports editor, Ed Sovola. Hammond; night editors, Margaret McConnell. of Oakland City, and Charlotte L. Schreiber, of Hebron. SOUNDS AS IF IT IS i DUE TO A YOU SHOULD THY FATHER JOHN'jQL MEDICINE .1 IT SO0TN IS TH2 TllfitST to vjonnv 0 Aim ff Slaying Follows Boxing Quarrel Man, 36, Captured After Shooting Uncle FT.

WAYNE, Nov. 17 (UP) Ft. Wayne police early today captured Ray Hah'n, 36, confessed slayer of his uncle, Jesse Goodlin, 57, at Goodlin's farm home in Allen county Friday night. The shooting occurred following the broadcast of the Tippy Larkin- Nick Moran fight at Madison Square Garden. Hahn was captured at Califor- inia road and State Road 3 after an overnight search.

Police said he 'was unarmed and offered no re- He was taken into cus- jtody by Allen county officials who said Hahn readily admitted shooting his uncle. Hahn and Goodlin disagreed over the decision of the New York prize fight, Mrs. Goodlin told police. Hahn, Mrs. Goodlin said, went upstairs and returned with a double-barreled shotgun.

He stood In the doorway between the parlor and kitchen and leveled the gun at his uncle, she said. Goodlin had lost his right arm several years ago in a railroad accident. Mrs. Goodlin said her husband walked toward Hahn and said: "Ray. Ray, what is the matter with you?" Hahn did not answer, Mrs.

Good hended. Mrs. Lena Ernsting, 84, Life Resident, Is Dead Mrs. Lena Ernsting, 84. a life resident of Indianapolis, died to day at her home, 340 North State street.

She was born in Indianapolis November 15. 1861. In 1892 she was married Henry Ernsting. She was a mem- of Emmanuel Reformed church. Funeral services will be held in the home Tuesday at 2 p.

m. Burial be Crown Hill cemetery, Survivors, besides the husband, are a son, Harry E. Ernsting. In dianapolis. four grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Sullivan Hotel Sold to Coal Operator1 Special to The Indlanapoli News SULLIVAN, Nov. 17 The Davis House, leading hotel here for nearly half century, has been sold to Walter A. Bled- COO rnn1 fivtAt-nts-vi led here forty-six years ago by the Davis family and was owned by the Davis estate. James J. Durham, who has a lease on the hotel and adjoining business rooms, will continue as manager.

The recent owners of the property were Mrs. Will Jenkins and Robert and Joe Stone, of Indianapolis, heirs of the Davis family. WOLF RAIDS ON SHEEP INDICATED Special to The Indianapolis New WABASH, Nov. 17 Farmers near Lagro believe a wolf is raiding nearby sheep flocks. Sheriff Sterling Staver learned Friday that the flock on the Jake Schmalzried place, along U.

S. 24. near Lagro, had been raided twice recently. The night of November 9, eleven lambs were chewed up and Thursday night six ewes were attacked. The animals were baldly torn, the sheriff was told.

CORRECTION In our advertisement (The Great Atlantic Pacific Tea Co.) in The Indianapolis News Thursday, Nov. 15, we advertised Marvel Boston Brown Bread, 16-oz. loaf, 32c the price should be I7e a loaf. tising agency of Indianapolis. Mr.

Evans married Miss Maude Collins at Louisville. She died in that city in 1939. Later he mar-1 ried Mrs. Edith Coffman at Craw-! fordsville. Survivors, besides the widow, are a daughter, Mrs.

Nancy Ma-han, Pittsburgh; a son, William D. Evans, Louisville; a stepdaughter, Mrs. Juanita Johnson, Chicago, and a sister, Mrs. O. T.

Roberts, Indianapolis. Gillespie Burial to Be Held Monday I I Miss Ethel E. Gillespie. 57, diedCho 7, i The seventy-room hotel was erect- becomes eligible for release under a Navy provision granting automatic discharges to men with three or more The son of Orla'ShufteV frioT-l anapolis, he returned to the states in February, after serving thirteen months in the Eropean theater on the LCI (L) 417. He saw action in the Normandy invasion, and later helped shuttle troops across the channel.

Before entering the Navy, he worked for the Allison division of General Motors in Indianapolis. i I 'wiiiti 7 Be the heated with Triplets Free Muncie Mari From Navy Special to The Indianapolis Newt MUNCIE, Nov. 17 Within a period of nine minutes, and with considerable help from his wife, George D. Shults, motor machinist's mate, 3-C, Muncie, became eligible for his discharge from the Navy last week. Mrs.

Shults. the former Man-marie Jenny, Muncie, gave birth to triplet sons. First to arrive was Donald Wayne, who weighed in at four pounds, five ounces. Next came Dennis1 DeWitt, five pounds, two ounces. Last on the program, and the key member of the winning combination, was Danny Eugene, three pounds, five ounces.

Young Shults, now on duty at the United States naval amphibious base, Little Creek, Virginia. Women's Club Worker Dead at Valparaiso VAT PARA Tn TnH Vnu 17 Af) Mrs. Leiesie eoucner, 00. active worker in the Women's Club and Republican party, diet in her home here Friday. She was the widow of Chauncey W.

Boucher, who was identified for many years with Indiana educational affairs. A son, Chauncey Boucher, is chancellor at the University of' Nebraska. A daughter, Mrs. Martha Sturday, lives here. U.

of Illinois Gets Charlestown Housing WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (UP)-The national housing agency Fri day approved the application of' the University of Illinois to obtain 275 portable housing units fron Charlestown, to be moved to Champaign-Urbana. The units will be used for housing veterans attending the university under the G.I. bill of rights educational program. Each unit is designed to house families of tw-j or more members, the NHA said.

wmm FREE DEMONSTRATION ALL-NITE DRUG STORE 22nd AND MERIDIAN STS. mm tuwfltiw (sumo 003 ED a participant in prqaucuons ai niciidi wm ue in uown tun ceme-Civic Theater, where he also served I tery. for a time as a member of the Survivors include a sister, Miss publicity staff. Jeannette F. Gillespie, Indian- Surviving, besides the mother, is apolis: a brother.

Arthur F. his widow, Mrs. Eunice Leek; two Gillespie, Marion; a niece. Mrs. sisters, Mrs.

William M. Martz andj Isabel Carter. Indianapolis, and Mrs. Edward W. Schurman: an two nephews, William F.

Gillespie aunt. Mrs. Mary E. Cain; a and James A. Gillespie, Marion.

Friday at her home. 5168 Prim rose avenue. She had been ill fourteen months. Miss Gillespie was born in Wilmington, but had lived in Marion county twenty-five years. For twenty-three years she had been an accountant for the Indiana Bell Telephone Company.

She was a ifcember of St. Paul's Episcopal church. Funeral services will be held Monday at 3.30 p. m. in Moore Mortuaries Colonial Chapel.

Bur Frank H. Sprouse, City Employe, Dies Frank H. Sprouse. 51, died today at his home. 909 Buchanan street.

He had been employed in the city street commissioner office. Mr. Sprouse was born at Rock-1 ville, but had lived in Indianaonli; since 1915. He was a member of Marion Masonic Lodge, the Scot- tish Rite and the Sahara Grotto. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at' 10 a.

m. in the J. C. Wilson Chanel of the Chimes. Burial will be in Washington Park cemetery.

The Rev. A. Piepen- brok, pastor of St. John's Evan-! gelical and Reformed church, will officiate. Survivors are four Harold.

Merlin, Herbert and Ber-; nard Sprouse, and a Mrs. Mary Sprouse, all of Indian-; apolis. HMD SANITARIUM, laa. SHEt-BYVrttK. TD.

Write for Information. Confidential: Phase ghelbrrUla William Martz, all of Indian apolis, and an uncle, Thomas Egan, of Denver. Ernest W. Klinge to Be Buried Monday Ernest W. Klinge.

69. 33fi5 North Colorado avenue, died today at -Methodist. Hospital. He had been Hi two weeks. Mr.

Klinge was born in Ger-j many, but had lived in Indianapolis since 1891. He had been a paper retailer at the City Market since 1900. He a member of St. John's Evangelical and Reformed church and of the Brotherhood of the church, Funeral services will be held Monday at 2:30 p. m.

in the J. C. Wilson Chapel of the Chimes, with burial in Crown Hill ceme tery. The Rev. Ernst A.

Fiepen-brok. Dastor of St. John's church, will officiate. Survivors include the widow, Mrs Minnie L. Klinge: two sons.

Elmer C. Klinge and Paul E. Klinge. Indianapolis; two daughters. Mrs.

Val Schneider and Mrs. Robert Amick. Indianapolis; a sister. Mrs. Sophia Schuessler.

Hollywood, and three i sure windows or other openings near pipes and meters are closed. In un basements, wrap exposed water pipes windproof insulating materials such as crumpled newspapers, felt, etc. Drain any outside'pipes anrjl be sure that the main shut-off valve (near your meter) in good working order in case of burst pipes..