Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 May 1946 — Page 2

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stands beside his father’s original 8 collector's paradise.

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of his oid bell collection, Mr. Shockney rings ome imied on a tower in a grove back of the farmhouse.

With his St. Bernard pet, Jumbe, Mr. Shockney of near Wind: log cabin built about 1848, It is |

Log Cabin Near Windfa 1

Is Museum of Pioneer Lore

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Roscoe Shockney looks over a pair of hames his father cut from white oak to use on one of the farm : horses about 100 years ago. Surrounding him are hundreds of other items he has collected around 'Y Tipton and Howard counties in the past 35 years.

: MAY ASK CONGRESS

TO PROBE ATTACKS

WASHINGTON, May 13 (U. P.). | —Senator Styles Bridges (R. N. H.), {said last night that he may call |for a congressional investigation of

¢ |the “unwarranted” ands “continu-

{ing” attacks by Russian airmen on | American planes. Mr. Bridges sald some attacks had been confirmed by the war department but there are others and they appear to be continuing.

PLANE CRASHES (LL 3 HOOSIERS

2 Die in Elwood Accident; One at Connersville,

Plane crashes claimed three lives in the state over the week-end. | Authorities today probed the] crash of a small airplane near El- | wood yesterday which killed Harold Pace, 37, Elwood, and William | Barber, 26, Frankton. State police said the craft apparently attempted to make a turn at low altitude and | crashed into a field. Another plane accident at Con-! nersville Saturday brought death to Lawrence Rogers, 25, Connersville, the pilot. He died a few minutes after the ship which he took off the ground suddenly faltered and crashed. A passenger was not seriously injured. { Mr, Pace died instantly in the Elwood accident and Mr. Barber died an hour later in a Madison

{county hospital.

Dual-Control. Ship

piloting the dual-control Aeronca monoplane when it crashed on the farm of George Pears three miles, southwest of Elwood. Cause of the! accident was not determined, At Connersville, 15-year-old Richard Stevens was recovering from in-| juries received in the plane crash) which killed the pilot late yesterday. Physicians said the youth, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Stevens of Connersville, suffered only a broken arm and leg and other minor injuries. The pilot, Mr. Rogers, was a re-

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Mr. Barber was thought to be! &%

e Girls: Chosen for Contest

Here are the attractive college girls selected at Harvard university to uphold the beauty reputation of Co-eds in competition with New York showgirls selected by Billy Rose. The selection was made following the controversial dispute waged between Mr. Rose and colleges as to who was the most beautiful, show girls or college girls. The girls are (left to right, rear row) Rosemary Drennan, Alamo, Tex.: Irene Miller and Ruth Thomas, both of Boston, and (front row, left to right) Marjorie Conlin and Janis Rawling, also of Boston.

turned world war II pilot. Witnesses to the crash said the motor of the plane apparently coughed out and Mr. Rogers had circled back to the city’s airport to attempt a landing

Times Staff Writer ! WINDFALL, Ind, May 13.—Young couples wishing to get married set up housekeeping should get in touch with Roscoe Shockney

and Just northeast of this little town.

doesn’t mind tilling his fields with But Mr. Shockney probably wouldn't be willing to part with his household and farm equipment for he is one of the “collectingest” collectors ever to store away that first keepsake. It all began 35 years ago when . his father finally decided to dispose of his old farm tools and some of the household equipment. Senior Shockney asked his son to get rid of them. That he did. Mr. Shockney merely moved them from the big house to the original log cabin home standing on the farm land.

ner until today he could outfit several young couples in the finest manner of 1850. ‘Mr. Bhockney frankly admits he ‘doesn't know how large a collection of Hoosier pioneer articles he has gathered or where all the pieces are, 7

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| “I guess that's why I never get _ tired of showing people around the

piece I've been looking for” h iS r," e : Cabin Now Museum

‘His father’s log cabin, built about still stands on the family has become something of housing the lore of Tip-

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; is, they should contact him if the bride is willing to work by the light of candles she has moulded herself, and if the groom

8 hand plow.

“It's old fashioned, but it does the job,” he said. With pride he pulled down the handle on a

| leather bellows well over the cen-

tury mark in use. And down in a grove an acre or two from the house he has preserved his father’s sugar mill. Here he has added a touch of his own. There on a sturdy tower are mounted 48 bells from farms and schools over Tipton and Howard counties, “There is nothing so sweet to hear as the tones of these old bells,” Mr. Shockney said. “But there was one time not so long ago that they sounded the best they ever have. Rang for V-J Day “When people here-about got the news - that “the Japs had sur rendered, they swarmed all over the farm and rang the bells the whole night through.” : As the years have passed the Shockney home has become a mecca for lovers of the historical In the past few years 4000 visitors have made their way to the farm to see how early Hoosiers lived.

GARY MAN TO HEAD JUNIOR CHAMBER

EVANSVILLE, Ind, May 13 (U.

|P.) —~Dee Coe of Gary today headed

the Indiana Junior Chamber of Commerce, He was elected at the concluding session of the annual convention yesterday, More than 400 delegates attended the three-day meeting. Other oMmcers elected included Filmer Bmith, Marion, first vice president; Herbert

Meyers, Wayne, secretary, and

Howard Christine, Evansville, treas- |

urer, New district vice presidents named were Tom Womacks, Valparaiso; Ol Campbell, Indianapolis; Charles

; Doluinbus; Art Gifford, Ko-

The plane was demolished.

Connersville PIN IN LUNG—BOY, [to have a pin removed from his

lung. The little boy was taken to

2 AWAITS OPERATION Children’s Memorial hospital. Hos-

CHICAGO, May 13 (U, P.).—~Two when the craft dived to the ground. year-old Jimmy Hughes arrived by| The poy plane from Phoenix, Ariz., last night | Thursday.

_ pital attendants said the time for the operation had not yet been set. swallowed the pin

Chief Counsel

TOKYO, May 13.—Dr. li former Premier “Hideki Tojo

Douglas MacArthur,

jurisdiction of the international ‘military tribunal. try-

ing the defendants and drew

an angry retort from Chief Prosecutor Joseph B, Keenan.

counsel that is very close to sedition,” Mr. Keenan declared. Shaking a pair of black-rimmed glasses and pounding on a table to emphasize his points, Kiyose based his. argument on the point that Japan had signed a conditional surrender. Speaks in Twe Tongues “Only the armed forces of Japan surrender unconditionally,” he argued. “The uncdnditional portion does not apply to the government or.the people. The Japanese people have to obey the supreme com|mander only in matters covered by

the Potsdam declaration.”

| Kiyose said that Gen; MacArthur {could issue orders and that the em-

peror was obligated to carry out only specific items covered in the Potsdam declaration, Kiyose claimed it would be for the good of civilization if :he in. dictments against the defendants were dropped. He cautioned the allies not to break any treaties themselves in their actions Lefore the court. Kiyose upset the arrangements made for interpreting his speech by speaking both English and Japanese. On two occasions he shouted

“I suggest to the tribunal that| we have heard discourse from this!

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MONDAY, MAY 13, 1946

for Tojo

Challenges M'Arthur's Ordars

By EARNEST HOBERECHTUnited Press Staff Correspondent

chiro Kiyose, chief counsel for and 26 other suspected war

criminals, asserted today that the Japanese people do. not have to obey every order issued by Supreme Cmdr. Gen.

His statement came during a genetal attack on the

Keenan tried to get the floor away from him, Mr. Keenan declared that the surrender of Japan was “without condition.” He turned a bright red as he faced the defendants’ box and |asked: “Are the perpetrators of war, murder and plunder to go free?” He insisted that the court had the right to try them. Sir William Webb, president of {the tribunal, suggested that Mr. | Keenan's “rhetorical language” was at the moment out of place. The American prosecutor replied that he felt strongly about the matter and that he was not going to let “a lot of false Assprion” 80 unanswered. Ends gal Wrangling The tribunal ended the legal tion and said it would take the matter under advisement with a ruling to be announced later. The court will convene at 9:30 a. m. tomorrow to hear other de- | fense motions, one of which waf be{lieved to be a request for a bill of particulars on charges in the 55« count indictment, The court also will reconsider a defense motion challenging the right of individual members to sit on the bench, but refused to review previous decision in which it stated it had not the power to unseat the judge. .

er —————————— ROTARY SPEAKER BOOKED M. P. Binkley, cargo sales manager for United Air Lines, will address the Tuesday noon luncheon

into the microphone when Mr.

meeting of the Rotary club in the Riley room at the Claypool hotel.

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