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Thursday, October 4, 1951 THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS Page 32 DEATHS AND FUNERALS State Hospital Areas Revised George E. Mountz, War Crime Prosecutor, Dies 'Dead Man' Revived From Fall on Walk by Heart Massage EL MONTE, Oct. 4 (AP) Two doctors said today they revived a man who had been dead "for 10 or 15 minutes." Frank A. Beckman, Food Salesman, Dies (fecial it FT. WAYNE, Oct.

4 George E. Mountz, Garrett city attorney and former prosecutor of the Japanese War Crime Com- 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. mission, riied vesterday of a When Melvin E. Hewitt, 28, was brought to the El Monte Medical Center this morning the heart ailment.

He was 43. ber of the Democratic Club and St. Philip Neri Catholic Church. An ardent fisherman, he was a familiar figure along Hoosier streams. Survivors include the widow, Helen C.

Beckman; two daughters, Mrs. Wilbur Shanks, and Mrs. Ralph McGloon; a son. Robert T. McGinty; a brother, Louis E.

Beckman, and five 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 Laker, Connersville, and Sister Mary Severin, Society of St. Joseph, Mobile, Ala.

Frank A. Beckman, 56, 2922 E. New York, died toaay in St. Vincent's Hospital. He had suffered from a heart ailment for the last six months.

Mr. Beckman was 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 becoming city salesman for the food firm he held a similar position with the Hoosier Distilled Water Co: about 16 years. A Democratic committeeman for the 10th Ward, 15th Precinct. Mr.

Beckman was a mem doctors pronounced him 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. 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, NewtotK Jasper, StarkyMarshall 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 Hospital Pulaski, Fulton Wabash, Carroll, Montgomery, Vermillion, Boone, Hendricks, Benton, Cass, Warren," Howard, Clinton, Parke, Hamilton, Vigo, White, Miami, Tippecanoe, Fountain. Tiptoti, 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, 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 will be held Monday for Roy Peed, who died Li France. He was a test driver for the old Maxwell Co, and later served as sales manager for the DeSoto Division of the Chrysler Corp. WESTFIELD Clyde S. Clark, 71, former Hamilton County treasurer, died yesterday at his home.

Services wiU be held tomorrow at 2 p.m. a i the West-field Friends Church. Survivors include a son, Donald H. Clark, deputy state auditor. LOGANSPORT Mrs.

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 fdind dead in his parked car with a bullet wound in his right temple and a rifle by his side. Mr. Mountz also serveo. as attorney for the Baltimore Ohio Railroad and was a former De-Kalb County prosecutor.

He served in the Navy during Wqrld 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 Dun-lavy, 45, Pendleton, yesterday.

will be held Friday for Claude G. Vardeman, 65, retired railroad Rites will alsc be held Friday for Mrs. Minnie Ann Urmston, 85, and for Pvt. John L. Miller, 18, ho was killed in Korea April 10.

NEW CASTLE Funeral serv CLINTON Mrs. Rosa Bell Canady, 83, died at her home in Cayuga Joseph 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. SUELIVAN Rites were held today for Cecil Brown, 63, retired coal miner, who died in the Mary Sherman Ollis E.

Bedwell, 31, died at his home in Phoebe A. Brown, 78, also is dead at Pleasant ville. Wylie Daniels, Rail Official, Author, Dies Burial for Wylie Daniels, for-mer Belt Railroad executive, will be in Crown Hill Cemetery after services at 3 p.m. tomorrow in 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 Highway Department.

First Preshvterian Church Mr. Daniels died last night to A in his home, 1813 N. Pennsylvania, alter an illness of 11 years. He first suffered a stroke in 1939, recovered enough to return to his of 4 I I fice. He retired in 1913 as sec rvi wwvo) Nyins js I First Quality i L-J LJ V-A LJ 1 L-J LJ i rS Sheer 31 gauge, 15 denier in i I smart fall shades; Noontide, i JL- "7 fJ Sneetspice and Sundown g4 S7 "1 1 Cray.

Sizes 8I2 to 10 12- "7 I jT- WOMEN'S WARM FELT I i 1 Warm felt hh J' Military Service Arranged for G.I. Military rites will he at 2 m. tomorrow in Flanner Buchanan Mortuary for Pfc. Edward M. Metralf Jr.

Burial will be in Union Chapel Cemetery. Recalled to active duty in September, 1950, after serving with occupation troops in Germany, rfc. Metcalf was killed in Korea, February 12. Pic. Metcalf was a graduate of Arsenal Technical High School and had lived at 6312 Broadway.

Survivors are his father. Edward Metcalf; two brothers, Paul E- and Harry K. Metcalf; thiee sisters, Mrs. Dolores Til-lett and Mis. Emma Lou Lake, all of Indianapolis, and Mrs.

Nelly Meal, Martinsville. Oscar L. Meek Private services will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow at 1316 23d, for Oscar L. Meek.

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 tlil widow, Mrs.

Gertiude Meek; a grandson, Charles Gibson, a granddaughter. Mrs Mary Inman. and a sister. Mrs. Ella Copeland, all of Indianapolis retary-treasurer of the Indianapolis Union Railroad.

Mr. Daniels had 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 R. Hoffman, manager of the Athenaeum Turners, died today in rcrrysburg, O. Services and Harry Dugan Fall Handbags A tfFoo You For Your of plastic calf Facially 2L. 1 (8l(3le mifffiF For Your plus tax Smooth plas tic calf in red brown, black Rites for IIar4v (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 Cross Cemetery. A native of Indianapolis, he was employed 22 years in the traffic department of Kingan Co.

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