Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 May 1942 — Page 15

WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1942

Japanese Propaganda—

CLAIMS 290,000 WAR CAPTIVES

Tojo Says Nippon’s Dead Number 9000; Brags of Stolen Oil Fields.

TOKYO, May 27 (Japanese Broadcast Recorded by United Press in

New York).—Gen. Hideki Tojo, premier and war minister, said today at the opening of an estranr dinary session of parliament that] Japanese losses in all theaters of the war to April 30 had been 9000 men killed and about 20,000 wounded. Without attempting to estimate] allied dead and wounded, he said] that Japan had taken 290,000) prisoners and that the allies had! lost 1800 airplanes, 3500 guns and | 45.000 armored cars, trucks and] railroad cars. Tojo said that oil gained from occupied territory this year would be 10 times what Japan had expected. Says Fields Repaired

He said that repairs to damaged fields progressed rapidly under army engineers and that the Palembang field in the Netherlands East Indies was captured by parachutists before appreciable damage had been done it. Tojo said that in Burma the Japanese had advanced 16 miles a day, and that at Toungoo they had tunneled their way into the city because they could not take the Chinese positions by frontal attack. He divided the Burma campaign into three phases—occupation of strategic centers, annihilation of allied remnants and reconstruction of occupied territories. In Burma, he said, the Japanese up to May 15 had killed 20,000 allied troops and captured 5000. He said that with the fall of Corregidor the United States had lost its most important strategic outpost in the Far East.

HOOSIER FOUND SAFE WASHINGTON, May 27 (U. P). —The navy announced today that| Ensign William Walker Hargrave of Newburgh, Ind, previously reported missing, had subsequently been found to be safe.

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Death Reveals Doctor's Strenge Career: Missourian Hides Fortune in Old House

By CLARK PORTEOUS Times Special Writer

HORNERSVILLE, Mo.,, May 27.—-Dr. Floyd Kinsolving lived a strange life. But perhaps the most fantastic chapter in an eccentric career began, on May 5, with the death of this 79-year-old physician, planter, lawyer

and snake fancier. What has set this century-old village seething with excitement is the discovery of a sizable fortune hidden in the old Kinsolving plantaticn house on Little river, a rambling 16-room structure where few of Hornersville's 87: residents were ever admitted. Now these residents are waiting to see if further search will turn up more valuables or, more important still, a will. There is one will already in existence, but that was drawn back in 1917. It left his estate, valued then at a half million, to the University of Missouri and the University of Louisville (Ky.). To his children he bequeathed his “love and affection” and $1 apiece. Dr. Kinsolving didn’t like his children back in 1917, but he didn’t like colleges either —always said that “young folks went to them to learn how to get along without having to work hard.”

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Ransacked Old House

THE OLD DOCTOR and his children quarreled in 1903, and he didn’t speak to them again until 1939, when they were reconciled. So Hornersville figures there must be a later will somewhere. If there isn't, the town is looking forward to the biggest lawsuit in the history of Dunklin county, since the heirs are almost certain to try to break the will. Meanwhile things are at a standstill while the musty old house is being ransacked under direction of the estate's administrators. The search began because the local banker reported, after the old doctor's death, that he had sold him $50,000 worth of war bonds in January, and the bonds were nowhere to be found. The search turned up a treasure that even the most skeptical had not bargained for. There were some who suspected Dr. Kinsolving of being “well off,” even though he always complained of being short of ready cash and had borrowed money to plant his cotton crop last year. But when the searching party uncovered the buried hoard, their gasp of astonishment was echoed all over Hornersville. =

Build Hiding Place

DR. KINSOLVING had made the hiding place himself. It was an ante-room in his basement with a heavy door and special

lock. No one was ever allowed to enter it. The walls were lined with shelves of dusty old medicine bottles and other odds and ends, but one of the shelves was removable.

The doctor would take down the bottles, being careful not to disturb the camouflage of dust then remove the false shelf and open a trap door. Behind this was a hole 16 inches in diameter, chiseled through 20 inches of concrete wall. Beyond that was the hiding place, outside the basement and four feet underground. There, in the wood-lined cavity, the searchers found $160,000 in cash and securities, stuffed in old inner tubes, coffee cans, bottles and an old carbide container from the doctor’s first automobile. A zine bucket, filled with fire clay, was in the hole, in case of fire. That wasn't the only treasure in the old house. In a can on a shelf was $2000 in $100 bills. Several hundred dollars were found in one of the library's 10,000 books. The doctor's cache of jewelry included a double handfull of diamonds, several gold watches, brooches and the like. He was known to have had 24 women's gold watches. They had original ly been sent on approval and the old man was to pick one for a young woman's graduation present. He bought all the watches and then didn't give the gift.

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He had kept all of his automobiles since his first 1911 model. There were 30 serviceable tires in the basement. Two new Persian rugs that had never been put down were among the dozens of expensive but never used articles found in the house, His twc passions seem to have been snakes and long-staple cotton. He “froze” sea island cotton seed in a giant ice box to inure the seed to cold weather and early planting. He made “dunce caps” to protect the young cotton plants, and turned 2000 geese into his 3000 acres of cotton to eat the Johnson grass. Other farmers long since stopped laughing at his eccentric agronomy, for it made . him a fortune and produced, some say, the best long-staple cotton in the country. Now other farmers use geese as “cotton choppers.” When he became fond of snakes nobody seems to remember. But he was often seen walking through the village with a snake over his arm. He kept a rattler in his woodpile, and had one favorite reptile named Bessie. He would fire any farmhand who killed a snake, The doctor was a mite queer, but he was no fool. To be sure he spent 13 years building a steel and-black-walnut house trailer, then bought a ready-made one and never used either. But he was also a brilliant physician and a brilliant lawyer, serving as county attorney for years though he never was admitted to the bar.

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Put Savings in Land

HE WAS A SURVEYOR a skilled iron forger, operated his own saw mill and dabbled in various sciences. And he built a fortune by investing his early save ings in botiom land at $1 an acre. Some of that land is worth 250 times the purchase price today, but he never sold a foot of it. His quarrel with his children grew out of an eccentric act which wound up with his divorce and second marriage. He had quarreled earlier with his old medical partner and next door neighbor, Dr. Eli Anderson, who built the house where the money was hidden. But when Dr. Anderson became ill, Dr. Kinsolving went next door to treat him—and never came home. He simply stayed around till his old partner died, divorced his wife and married the twicewidowed Mrs. Anderson, 16 years his senior. It wasn’t until the second Mrs. Kinsolving died at 92 that the family breach was healed. Mrs. R. R. Cannon, his daughter, was the first to be reconciled with him. Floyd Kinsolving Jr. of Carbondale, Ill, visited his father when he was ill. Max Kinsolving, of Memphis, son of the late Norris Kinsolving, is a grandson and third heir in the event the will is broken.

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MILK DELIVERY IN STATE CURBED

LAVAL’S LAST CHANCE?

BERN, May 27 (CDN) — Pierre Laval's German friends have given the Vichy chief of government “one last chance,” it is believed here, be-

| fore he appeases Italy’s appetite for| They admit as likely, however, that | French land and bases in the Medi-|a second note from Rome has been terranean. delivered, in which Mussolini & Foreign circles in Bern discard|Co. ask for condominium in Tunisia the rumor of a German ultimatum and immediate occupation of Core to Vichy in support of Italy’s claims.| sica.

One Daily and No Special Service Ordered by

Control Board.

Beginning June 1, milk deliveries to all Hoosier homes and institutions will be placed on a restricted, wartime basis, allowing only one stop daily and no special delivery service to any individual or store. Announcement of the delivery limitations was made by the State Milk Control board late yesterday in a series of ilve retail regulations and three recommendations set down for the dairy industry as a means of conserving transportation facilities. Milk distributors in Indianapolis have announced that they would begin every-other-day delivery of milk, beginning June 1, in an effort to conserve tires.

Special Delivery Banned

As listed by the board, the statewide regulations to become effective June 1, provided: 1. That no local carrier shall make more than one delivery a day to any one individual or store. 2. That no local carrier shall make special deliveries except to hospitals, the armed forces, or in an emer- | gency where the public health is threatened. | 3. That no local carrier shall make | any back-calls for collection or any other purpose. 4. That no local carrier begin his retail route before 7 a. m. or wholesale carrier before 5:30 a. m. 5. That churches, schools, factories, and other organizations must place milk orders in sufficient time to permit delivery on a regular route schedule.

Eliminates Duplication

The recommendations urged: That producer-distributors in any one area eliminate duplication of service to any one retailer; that dealers make deliveries every other day, and that wholesalers with the storage space be given a two-day’s supply on each delivery. While observance of the recommendations was not made compulsory, board members indicated that compliance probably would reflect in the issuance of the 1042-1943 license.

C. C. Livingstone, 301 N. Temple ave, general chairman of the brotherhood of locomotive engineers of the Big Four railroad, has assumed his duties as a member of the state milk control board. He was appointed by Governor Schricker to succeed E. H,. Stoy, Shelbyville, who resigned to accept a position with the city health

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1943,

DECEASED PASTORS AND WIVES HONORED

KOKOMO, Ind, May 27 (U. P.). —Tribute was paid today to the memory of 11 deceased ministers! and ministers’ wives at the opening | session of the North Central Indiana Conference of Methodist churches annual meeting. Speakers during the five-day meeting will include Dr. Hazen G. Werner, Dayton, O.; Bishop Titus Lowe, Indianapolis; Dr. Edward R. Bartlett, DePauw university, and Ernest H. Chappelle, a layman of the Michigan conference. Attendence is expected to reach its peak tomorrow when hundreds of lay delegates and clergy members gather for the remainder of the business sessions which will conclude Sunday. ———— —

NAVY TO ACCEPT MORE MEN

WASHINGTON, May 27 (U. Pp). The navy has authorized enlistment of 10,000 additional college juniors, seniors and graduates, for reserve midshipman training leading to

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8 IN NARCOTIC RING | AWAIT SENTENCES

TUCSON, Ariz, May 27 (U. 200m] Eight men, identified by authorities | as members of a $1,000,000 narcotics syndicate, today awaited sentencing on charges of possessing and smuggling nine pounds of crude opium into the United States from Mexico. Alberto Leyva, now serving time in Tekas on mail fraud charges; Frank Livorsi, former Dutch Schultz bodyguard; Charles Albero; Salva- 1 tore Santaro; Joseph Spitaleri, and Dominick Petrelli pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday. Helmuth Hatmann, New York, and Anthony Rojas, Mexico, pleaded guilty at their arraignment a week ago.

54 ENEMY AGENTS PURGED BY MEXICO

MEXICO CITY, May 27 (U. P.). —Mexico was purging enemy agents today, the eve of a formal declaration of war against Germany, Italy and Japan for torpedoing her merchant ships. : Fifty-four axis citizens, including some of the most dangerous agents in Mexico, were rolling toward the United States in two heavilyguarded train coaches. They included 21 Germans, 23 Japanese and 10 Italians. Congress meets tomorrow to conAvila

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