Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 26 May 1950 — Page 1

THE POST.DEMOCRAT The Only Democrat Paper in Delaware County Carrying the Union Label

VOL. 32—NO. 12.

MUNCIE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1950.

’GA’ Formed To Aid 50 Million Suckers

Hello, Suckers. There are 50,000,000 of you— American adults who gamble regularly. You are butting your “heads and dollars against gambling odds and gimmicks” that make it impossible to win. The money inVolved is fantastic. An estimated $8,000,000,000 is bet with bookmakers each year. Slot machines gross an easy $1,000,000,000 “take” annually. The numbers game or policy racket accounts for $1,000,000,000 to $3,-bet-taker rakes in 1.5 to 95 per 000,000,000 annually. You can’t win. Over the long run, no matter how you try or how long you play, you’re a sucker. The operator, proprietor, or cent of all money wagered. Those statements are part of a scholarly lowdown on gambling issued today. The venerable American Academy of Polit:/al and Social Science devoted the May issue of its “Annals” to what it asserts is the most comprehensive sutdy of gambling ever made. It wraps up all asepcts in 17 articles by persons who have studied the field. (The chapter on “Slot Machines and Pinball Games,” for instace, is signed “Anonymous” and the editors explain the authors are connected with a slot machine investigation.) Here are some conclusions: Bingo operators customarily pocket a profit of 50 to 80 per cent. Lottery and raffle prizes are worth only 20 to 40 per cent of the total profits. For big lotteries like the Irish Sweepstakes, racketeers print thousands of counterfeit tickets “with the result that most Irish Sweepstakes tickets sold in the United States are fraudulent.” All slot machines are fixed to retain 40 to 80 per cent of the coins put into them. One author said that “only one I gambler in 100 knows the odds are stacked against him.” But even those keep on playing. Most, he said, are like the man who was Warned by a friend he was playing in a crooked game and replied: “Hell, I know it’s crooked, but it’s the only one in town.” The state of affairs brings up the problem of the “compulsive gambler.” He is dealt with in a section entitled “The Psychodynamics of gambling.” According to the psychaonalyst author, the compulsive gambler is

Memorial Day Drivers Are Given Warning INDIANAPOLIS, May 26—(Spl.) —Death will stalk careless motorists on Hoosier highways ov^r the four-day Memorial day weekend, State Police Supt. ' Arthur M. Thurston warned today. “Thousands of people will leave their homes Friday night or Saturday on holiday vacations,” he said, “and every effort must be made to prevent motoring tragedies.” Travelers were advised to start their trips early to avoid hazards which will be heightened! by increased travel. Pleasure seekers at lake and 1 river resorts were warned against water accidents and private plane pilots were cautioned to observe safe flying practices. Trooper patrols in the 10 State Police districts will be intensified to cope with the anticipated heavier travel. Supt. Thurston reported that 13 persons were killed in 10 crashes in a four-ddy period ending May 30, 1949. There were 344 persons hurt in 223 personal injury collisions, and 422 other accidents involving only property damage. He asserted that high speeds were responsible for accident severity in rural districts, where 10 of the 13 fatalities occurred. Last year in Marion county, where traffic volume counts on the 15 main roads leading to Indianapolis were 60 per cent above normal dbe to the 500 milQ race, only one fatality was reported. There also were 38 personal accidents and 28 property damage accidents.

mentally sick. He is “an obsessional neurotic engaged in what might be called the making of magic.” The compulsive gambler “must win and lose at the same time for his sanity’s sake” becaus of his obsesions and their conflicting nature. He can’t do it, so he goes on risking his possessions. Among the independent efforts to “cure” the addiction to gambling is a Gamblers Anonymous, organized in California more than a year ago by a group suffering in the pocketbook from gambling. The organization is fashioned after Alcoholic Anonymous. Its membership is said to be growing “incredibly fast.” In a press conference called to explain the new volume, one of its two editors, Morris Ploscowe, a judge of the Magistrates’ Courts of New York City, said that there seemed to be a unanimity among the authors that “legalization is not the answer” to the gambling problem. “Some people think that by knocking off a single racketeer, or throwing out a public official, you can solve the problem,” he said. “But,,more than anything it’s a problem of manners and morals of our culture.” The issue publishes—for the first time anywhere—a 14-page alphabetical list of dice gamblers’ terms and their definitions. It’s quite a thing.

Guardsmen To Get Vacation For Training The Adjutant General of Indiana, General Robinson Hitchcock, has asked Indiana Employers who may already be setting up annual vacation schedules for their employes to make allowances for military leaves for Hoosier Guardsmen. General Hitchcock stated that every Hoosier Employer can play an important part in maintaining an adequate defense force for our national security through generour military leave policies for Guardsmen who are required to participate in 15 days of field training each summer. The General pointed out that the soldier-citizens of the Indiana National Guard, in peacetime, have a first obligation to their families and the jobs by which they make a living. But in order to keep themselves properly prepared for military service they must leave these jobs for a short period’ of time each year for fulltime training. Most Hoosier employers have in the past granted military leave to their employes who are members of the Guard. The 38th Infantry Division is scheduled for field training at Camp Atterbury for the period 30 July-13 August. The 138th AAA Bn. takes special Anti-Air-craft training at Camp Haven, Wisconsin for the period 15-29 July. The Indiana Air National Guard again this year will journey to Grayling Army Air Base in Michigan for their aerial maneuvers for the period 13-27 August.

New School Board To Be Named By City Council Monday, June 5

The Muncie City Council met Thursday in a special meeting, held public hearings on three ordinances, passed! two of them, and referred 1 the other to a committee for further study. Seven of the nine members were present with Councilman Cooley and Weeks being absent. The next regular meeting will be held June 5th when the bus fare agreement will be up for approval and a school board member will be

named.

The approved legislation last night by the council included the Grade A milk ordinance which was passed unanimously and authorization to the Muncie Housing Authority to borrow $60,000 for the purpose of making a survey on proposed construction of public housing units which passed by a 6 to 1 vote. The third ordinance considered and referred to committee would license and regulate peddlers, magazine salesmen, and canvasers in the city. The Grade A milk ordinance provides for the inspection and licensing of producers, processors, and milk distributors within the

city for the sale of first grade milk only to consumers in Muncie. The license fees for dairies and distributors amount to $750 annually beginning Jan. 1, 1951 and one-half that amourtt for the last half of 1950. Also, each truck delivering milk in Muncie must be licensed at $25 per year or $12.50 each for the balance of this year beginning August 1st. A milk inspector is to fc«u mimed by the mayor and approved by the city board of health who will begin his duties on July 1st at a salary of $3000 per year plus $600 annually for travelling expenses. The ordinance takes effect within 90 days following the final approval and advertising which will be approximately September 1st. Both state and federal health regulations relating to milk inspections, and the supplying of Grade A milk to all consumers and retail markets in Muncie are incorporated in the ordinance. The milk ordinance is the second major health measure sponsored by the city board of health to receive approval by the council within the past two years. Late in 1948, the board urged the adoption of a city restaurant inspection ordinance providing for licensing and grading among all eating establishments in the interest of public health. The restaurant legisdation has been successful and popular among the public and very capably administered by the city board! of health. The approval granted to the Muncie Housing Authority to negotiate an advance loan from the federal government with which to authorize a survey and proceed with the plans to build several hundred 1 additional public lowincome housing units in Muncie was opposed 1 by Arthur Ballenger, the lone Republican councilman present Thursday night at. the special meeting. It is proposed to borrow $60,000 for this purpose since an application for 600 units has already been allocated to Muncie by the federal agencies. The original bus agreement to continue the present bus fares of ten-cent single rides or nine-cent tokens and fdve-cent fares for school age children during the next nine months was withdrawn by the Board of Public Works and Safety. A new agreement including the same fares but extended for a full year until June of 1951 was filed with the Council

placements with the Evansville land will be consdered at the office alone accounting for nearly .regular meeting on June 5th.

one-fourth of the total increase. Job openings, referrals and place-

Unemployment Decreases In Past 7 Days

Unemploy m e n t compensation claims last week held to the low level of 28,532 down 1 per cent from the previous week, John W. Crise, director of the Indiana Employment Security Division, said today. He added that the outlook is for continued, production and

increasing employment.

Settlement of the Chrysler strike brought about vastly improved conditions in Evansville, Kokomo and New Castle. Heavy rains in some sections of the state last week retarded construction but in other areas the industry was operating at peak capacity. Initial claims for the week ending May 13 numbered 4,039, .2 per cent fewer than the week before and 62.4 per cent under the same week of 1949. Continued 1 claims showed a drop of 1 per cent to 24,493 last week from 24,707 for the week ending May 6. They were less than half those of a

year ago at this time.

New applications for work jumped 56 per cent last week, mostly because of job registrations of students and teachers from rural schools. Division offices made 10 per cent more job

ments increased in 20 of the Di-

vision’s 29 offices.

Republicans Plan Chicago Rally To Outdo Recent Democratic Event

Stalwarts of the GOP are 6usy making elaborate plans for three party rallies which they hope will outdo the gigantic Chicago affair recently put on by the Democrat party,' where the President spoke, a few days ago. Preesident Truman at this meeting, drew an overflow crowd of 22,000 at the Chicago Stadium. Chairman of the Republican Senatorial Committee, Senator Owen Brewster of Maine, made the statement that he thinks that even without a President as a drawing card, the Republicans can outdo the Democrats in Chicago. Although final arrangements aren’t complete, „ the GOP National Committee has scheduled an East Coast rally for Atlantic

City, June 23. Republicans expect to follow this with a Western conference at Salt Lake City in July and a general roundup in Chicago late in August or September. The idea is to dramatize their fall campaign to regain control of Congress. The Atlantic City meeting in the home state of GOP National Chairman Guy G. Gabrielson, will be open to all Republican members of Congress, as well as Republican officials from east of the Alleghenies. Republican Governors attending the annual Governors’ conference at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., earlier in the week have been invited.

The school board membership term of Norman Durham, president, expires this year and will be up for consideration by the council members a week from next Monday night. Durham has served one three-year term and has been a very active board member. He has been greatly interested in the local 1 school ex-, pansion program which provides for the construction of three new school buildings during the fol-

lowing three years.

Honored At I. li. Catherine Orr, 416 Wayne St., Muncie, has been initiated into Iota Sigma Pi, honorary chemical fraternity at Indiana University. Miss Orr is a student in the I. U. School of Medicine. Another Delaware County student, Robert Simmons, Albany has been elected recording secretary of Sigma Theta Epsilon, Methodist service fratrnity. Mr. Simmons is a sophomore on the I. U.

campus at Bloomington.

Hoosier Bonus Fund Exceeds Twelve Million

The Department of Revenue in Indiana reports that more than 12 million dollars has already been collected in taxes toward the state’s World War II bonus for its veterans. Bonus cqllections for the first three months of 1950 amounted to $8,081,761, making the fund $12,148,717. These figures were released today in the department’s quarterly review, which disclosed that the state’s total revenue for the first quarter of this year was down $1,600,000, or 3.3 per cent, from the first quarter of last year. “This drop can be traced to the substantial decline in gross income tax collections,” the department said. The gross tax brought $35, 879, 070, down almost $2 1-2 million, or 6.4 per cent, from the same period a year ago. One other classification, inheritance taxes, showed a decline. The total was $776,559, down 10.9 per cent. Other divisions showed increases, although they were not large enough to offset the big gross income tax decline. Intangible taxes brought in $9,378,604, up 6.8 per cent. Store license taxes were up 39.8 per cent to $493,860. Asks Government To Pay Major Share On Roads Indiana’s Highway Commission ChairmaA, Samuel C. Hadden, in testifying before the Senate Public Works Committee, in Washington, made the statement that he believed that the federal government should pay 75 per cent of the cost of interstate express highways. Hadden said states cannot bear one half the cost, as they do in most highway programs. The committee is studying a proposal to spend $100 million for a national system of express highways. It would be unfair to the people of Indiana, for instance, Hadden said, to expect them to pay one half of the cost of the program when “everybody” who goes East or West north of the Ohio River goes through Indiana. He favored a proposal of the Association of State Highway Officials to allot federal money on a population basis. Hadden is a member of the executive board of the national association.

Anderson Will Get A New P. O. WASHINGTON, May 26. — The General Services and Post Office Department announced today four new Post Office construction projects in Illinois and Indiana on which plans will be prepared and sites bought. The last session of Congress appropriated $40,000,000 for Post Office and Federal Building site acquistion and plan preparation,

the GSA said.

The projects and authorization in this area (no cost figure is set for those projects estimated to

cost less than $200,000):

Polo, ill., site and building;

Winchester, 111., site and

ing;

Amateurs Get Chance To Have Hobby

ST. LOUIS -William F. Sprengnether, Jr., hopes to create a new corps of hobbyists in the near future—amateur seismologists. With his father, the 40-year-old physicist operates the Sprengnether Instrument Co. here. The firm, founded by Sprengnether, Sr. 40 years ago, claims to be the only one in the world specializing in the development and production of seismographic equipment. Young Sprengnether has applied for a patent on a device which he believes will develop a lot of interest among h o b b y-m i n d e d Americans. His invention is a home-model seismograph, a low-priced, simplified version of a regular quakerecorder. Sprengnether hopes to have the instrument on the market “within the next six or eight months.” He reported the gadget will cost “in the neighborhood of $75” and that it can be operated easily by any person of average Intelligence, high-school age or over. Gold Wire Included The physicist said the 40-pound instrument will come complete in every detail, down to a 14-karat gold wire from which the pendulum that touches off the wirerecording mechanism will swing. Thrown in as an added attraction will be a set of graphs and scales for determining the distance of an earth tremor without having to perform any complicated mathematical calculations. To whet the hobbyist’s curiosity and test his mechanical ingenuity, the midget-sized seismographs wlil be sold partly unassembled. Sprengnether noted that part of the fun in dealing with the gadget will be putting it together. A hobblist will “pick up principles of optics and physics he never knew,” Sprengnether said. Has Wide Range The physcist said his instrument will be able to record anytfiihg from a minor, localized'dynamite explosion to a major earthquake thousands of miles away. Looking intp the future, he envisions the day when amateur seismologists will be able to furnish seismological and meteorological stations with pertinent information that the too-few-and-far-between posts are unable to gather currently. • As one example, Sprengnether cited the use of the home-model seismographs along the coast lines, where they could be used to trace hurricanes and thus warn ships of impending danger zones. Shortly, he plans to go to Washington, where he will try to interest members of the Seismological Society of America in helping organize an amateur society for the “seimologlsts.”

House Votes For Two-Year Extension Of The Peacetime Draft But Keeps Control Of Measure With Congress

Bus Contract Continued Year

It was agreed by the Public Board of Works and Safety to give a one year extension of the present bus contract. The city council, at a special meeting Thursday night, ratified the action of the Board of Works. In extending, until next June 6, the

contract of the Wesson Company, build-1 Indiana Railroad Division, the

Knox, Ind., site and build- same passenger rates and other

ing; Anderson, Ind., new and building, $1,220,000.

site provisions in their franchise will

remain the same.

67 Enter Brown Swiss Cattle In Muncie Show

Around sixty-seven entries took part in the Eastern Indiana Canton annual Brown Swiss show Thursday at the Delaware County Fair grounds, and was the largest show of the five cantons last week, with Bluffton to show on last Friday. Gerald Miller, of near Eaton, ; is the president; Harold Phillips, of near Muncie, vice-president; and W. B. Isenhart, of Portland, secretary-treasurer. E. A. Gannon, of Purdue, was judge of the show, with the ground show committee: Wilbur Teagerden, chairman; Forrest Chenoweth, W. Doyle Foutz and John Rlnard. Members of the barn committee were Harold M. Phillips and William Phillips, with Gayle Dunlap in charge of health certificates. Those on the dinner committee were Mrs. Reba Phillip, Mrs. Gayle Dunlap and Mrs. Forrest Chenoweth. Among the local winners at the show were Gayle Dunlap, Carlton Cox, Gerald Miller and Sons, Barbara Cox, and Forrest Chenoweth & Sons.

Balloons Cause Injuries To Banquet Guests CHICAGO, May 26. — Three women were in a hospital today with injuries received when 18 gas-filled balloons exploded in a restaurant dining room during a private banquet. Two other women were given emergency treatment and released last night. The balloons were hung in the dining room as decoration for a woman’s bowling league banquet. After the dinner, the balloons were taken down and some of the 16 women present started to bat them about. Apparently, one balloon touched a lighted cigaret. It exploded and a chain of blasts followed. Gas fixtures were shatered, windows blew out and glass door panels were broken. The concussion blasted through an adjoining room and into the main dining room of the restaurant, shattering more glass.

Standby Legislation Approved As Cold War Continues Between Communism and Democracies.

Corn Planting Is Half Done Corn planting is 50 per cent completed across the state the Indianapolis Weather Bureau reported today- in its weekly crop bulletin. Planting is nearing completion in some areas and corn is up in others, the bureau said. Meanwhile, general planting of soybeans is beginning. The bureau said that wheat and oats are in fair to good condition, as are meadows and pastures. Some tomato plants are being set and seeding of tomatoes is in progress. Slow growth was reported for gardens and truck crops. Potatoes are still being planted with some early planting up. Tobacco plants are also being set in southern counties.

Democrats Have Big Balance After Primary The report made public by Frank McKinney, treasurer of the Democratic State Committee, showed contributions ‘of $303,_ 238.00 collected between November 9, 1948 and May 16, 1950. Hoosier Democratic finances have shot from a meager $5,141 balance to $90,963 in the 18 months since the 1948 fall election. Filed with Marion County Clerk A. Jack Tilson; yesterday, McKinney’s report listed expenditures of $217,416. The bulk of the contributions came from state employees. The gifts ranged from $1 a month to $12 for department heads and board members. Salaries listed in the monthly report included Ira L. Haymaker, state chairman, $564.52; John L. New, research director, $332.70; John E. Hurt secretary, $246.25, and Mrs. Ruby Ware, state vice-chairman, $173.81. The Republican state committee *is expected to file a similar report within a few days.

City Schools Plan Program For Five Additional School Days

Superintendent of Schools, day of school for the teachers

Roscoe D. Shaffer, presented to the city school board, a program whiich provides for five auuitional work days for Muncie school teachers. Under this provision the teachers of Muncie schools will begin their school year, in the fall, three days ahead of the time of the opening of school and will end two days later in the spring, thus giving the teachers an extra weeks work at

regular pay.

The plan as outlined to the school board by Superintendent Shaffer will provide that the first

Taft-Republicans Made Nervous By Recent Trip Of President Truman

Taft-Republican leaders are afraid of Harry S. Truman. They are as nervous as a cat in a strange garret. They can’t forget 1948. Every time they think of it, they get a “conniption fit.” That is- shown by the “jumpy” actions and statements on President Truman’s present coast-to-coast trip from Washington through 16 states into the Northwest, to “report to the people’% on the record and problems of his administration. Even before the trip started, Taft-Republican National Committee, came out of a “huddle” witn Taft-Republican “publicity men” and handed newspapers a list of 10 “questions” for Truman to answer. By that time, the President was was off on his trip, making speeches in which he raised and answered his own questions. Several queries on Gabrielson’s list followed the “China Lobby” and Senator McCarthy “line,” about “Communists in the State Department” and suggesting that Truman had China in his pocket and “lost” it. The other Gabrielson questions were along the usual Taft-Re-publican line, blaming Truman for the high taxes necessary to pay for the war, trying to tell

the country that he is the product of a crooked political machine, and calling the Man from Missouri a “Socialist.” Keep Him in Sight. Taft-Republicans were so nervous that they couldn’t bear to let Truman get out of their sight. They sent Victor Johnson, executive secretary of the G. O. P. Senatorial Campaign Committee, flying by airplane after the Presidential train, stopping wherever it stopped, and “listening in” on every Truman speech. “H. T.” spotted Johnson in the crowds, and several times invited him to come on board the train, make the trip in comfort, and save the cost of the plane. Johnson declined to accept that sensible proposal. Remembering ,how effective Truman was in his campaign talks from a train in 1948, TaftRepublicans are trying to deprecate his talks this time as “politics.” Of course, politics and great national issues are inseparable, and any President knows it. Helped Win War. He recalled that, when the first price support plan was proposed to put farmers back on their feet, a reactionary congressmen called that plan “communistic.” #, Yet

such “price” supports helped carry farmers and the rest of the country out of the depression and through the greatest war in histry. Nevertheless, the President pointed out, the present support system is “not fully satisfactory.” “It is foolish to have the government buy food and destroy it, as sometime happens under the present program. Everyone knows about the shameful potato situation.” Would Benefit Consumers. Then Truman again urged farmers to favor something like the “Brannan plan,” under which Uncle Sam would buy no foods or other farm products to keep their prices high, but would pay farmers the difference between average market prices and the fair prices set by Congress. One purpost of this is to make food cheaper for consumers, so they could eat more and thus help solve the problem of “farm “surpluses.” At Laramie, Wyoming, and other stops, Truman talked on a wide variety of vital issues, including world problems, his new plan for aid to small business, and projects for development and conservation in the vast valley of the Missouri River. He is still “reporting to the people.”—Labor.

will begin September 6 and will be spent in special and general interest group sessions with some prominent speaker addressing

them.

The following program has been worked out for the last week of school. General and group sessions will continue in the morning, and pricipals and supervisors will confer in the afternoon before building organizations meetings. On Friday, children will report to school to meet their teachers and to prepare for classes to begin on Monday, September 11. At the end of the year, the teachers will spend Saturday, June 9, in making out grades and final records. On Monday, June 11, the children will return for their report cards and to complete preparations for next year. The program was summarized by Mr. Shaffer as “two days of school, three days of professional improvement for the staff.” The board approved yesterday the appointment of four new trac-

ers.

Thursday of this week the House voted the continuation for two more years of the peacetime draft. Actual induction will be provided only by special act of Congress. A standing vote was taken, the vote being 16 to 11. This act has been designated as the “Manpower Registration Act of 1950.” All youths between 18 and 26 would continue to register with their draft boards and be processed as at present. But until the House and Senate, acting together, declared a national emergency existed which required an increase in the armed forces: 1— No inductions could be ordered. 2— The President could not mobilize industry or take over war-essential plants. 3— No 18-year-olds could enlist. 4— Voluntary enlistments of less than two years would be prohibited. The draft-extension bill also authorizes the President, upon declaration of a national emergency, to order into active service, all members of the military reserve for 21 months. However, 18-year-old reserves would be excused from this duty at their own request. No large-scale opposition was anticipated by House leaders. Congress has been warned by defense chiefs that continuation of selective service is essential for the duration of the cold war. With no debate, the House yesterday rammed through a pair of bills authorizing nearly a billion dollars worth of new defense spending for the fiscal year starting July 1. One of the measures authorizes the Navy to spend $350 million on a modernization and construction program, and to start work on an experimental atomicpowered submarine. The program also contemplates construction of a guided-missile ship, 50,000 tons of new vessels, and conversion of up to 200,000 tons of existing ships. Representative Carl Vinson (D., Ga.), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said “we’ve got to keep abreast” of Russia in submarine strength. The Soviets now have the largest submarine fleet in the world, he declared. The second new bill contained authorizations for approximately $850 million of new consruction and public works on land installations in the United States and at foreign bases. Muncie Police Detective Is Named By FOP Muncie detective Ernest Mr. Holladay was honored by the Indiana Fraternal Order of Police during the concluding business session of its 15th annual convention here. He was elected president of the association for the coming year. The Muncie officer succeeds Arthur Low of Indianapolis. In a close contest Mr. Holladay defeated Lloyd E. Story of Michigan City for the office. Other officers elected include Charles N. Brown of Columbus, vice-president; Fred Armstrong, Jr., of Terre Haute, secretarytreasurer; Gilbert Clidence of Frankfort, conductor, and the following trustees: Donald Smith of Gary, northwest district; John Carpino of Fort Wayne, norths east; Charles Hartzell of Anderderson, central; Dillard Little of Bedford, southwest, ond Garrell Richey of Shelbyville, southeast. Fort Wayne was selected as the site for the 1951 convention.

Muncie Convict Seeks Parole

The Indiana State Clemency Commission has held a two-day session to consider the petitions for clemency of 41 inmates of the Indiana Reformatory and the Indiana State Prison. There are 13 from Marion County and a total of 20 men who have been given life sentences. One^lifer, Alford Shoue, 58, Whiting is serving a term for killing a woman and a policeman during a holdup at Whiting in 1930. Among others filing pleas are: Howard Farmer, 24, Indianapolis, sentenced to 10 to 25 years in 1946 for armed robbery of a filling station here; Aubrey Karney, 53, Indianapolis, sentenced to 10 to 20 years in 1943 for first de-

gree burglary; Thomas Bratton, Indianapolis, sentenced to life in 1935 for the slaying of a woman during a poker game on West 10th Street. William J. Ipox, 71, Franklin County, sentenced in 1932 to life for second degree murder; Charles Beasley, 60, Terre Haute, sentenced in 1928 to life for killing a Terre Haute woman with a club; Benton Augustus, 62, Muncie sentenced to life in 1935 for the murder of another man during an argument over a pack of cigarettes; Morris Green, 40, Covington, sentenced to life in 1935 for the slaying f a woman during an attempted rape, and Edward Barnes, 43, Kokomo, sentenced to life in 1937 for the rape of a 5-year-old child.