Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 May 1947 — Page 2

ing Jr. tells. County’ Prosecutor neighbor children because Kill somebody.”

* Farm Boy

All the executed men and Striegel | were convicted for “acting in pur- |. sarge fled fn circuit court. MichiSane Of CO oe asscripea §uL. 40% 00k have the death peo- : | AMEE SL 3 to killings, beatings, tortures, star- " Vide Pleking Pio 7 | “Perperynig- calmly admit Yidiation of the laws and usages of! tate. police in East r The “persons hereinafter named” included citizens of almost every alEuropean nation, Britons,

Monday as they picked wild fdowers in the woods necar his farm' home.

but 16; Stanley. 5, 12 the Janet, 2. Barbara was considered { his “girl friend.” Swit it Eigru : | “1 always kinda wonderei w ! Bers i would’ feel: like to kill somebody,” " | he told Dr, Lemoyne Siyden Me william Henk . |igan state meédical-l expert. Tht {even thought a lot gbout killing my stepmother, but never went through

gallows crying for | With it” :

200 View Arrival American relatives.” . | A curious, but orderly crowd of Prey failed to carry out a nearly 200 persons--most of them his American soldier jailers | teem-agers —silently watched Teri arrival at the Lapeer jail,

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Richard” or “Give Me Five Min- “afrested in Toledo, O. utes More” on the gallows. [ay when he hitched a ide Willy Jobst, who clubbed 10 within painter who prisoners to death at @Mauthausen, nized hint from a broadcast descripwas- hanged before he could get tion. Si through with plans fof marriage to; Terpening fled in his father's car his wartime sweetheart. . They before the bodies of his victims wanted to be married in the prison jwere found. The car was found

st night, but details of getting abandoped in Port Huren, Mich. papers and finding a priest | The farm boy told police he didn’t willing to perform the ceremony want to attend the mass funeral to delayed the marriage until it was | be held tomorrow at Imlay City. too late. Permission had been; “I would be afraid to face their granted by the prison authorities. |family,” he said. :

Scotland Yard ae {0s Pious hes " said Arrests Own Men

he would present a motion in pro-

LONDON «1. Scot bate court to waive juvenile jurisland Yard Sosy hs gm own Sieuion ang pring the case directly detecti todsy . eged! - circuit court. ing “through ee en Police said Terpening showed no persons interviewed. remorse and Was not ..ervous durThe two men, both sergeants in, ing their long questioning. He posed the criminal investigation depart- readily for photographers, staring ' ment, were refused bail. Their trials steadily into the cameras. were set for June 4. They were ar-| Using a .22 caliber rifle, the farm rested at the Scotland Yard office. boy had fired one bullet each into

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KINDA WONDERED'—In Lapeer, Mich... jail, Oliver Terpen-

he "kinda wondered what it was like to

‘Disappointed’ = At "Thrill' of Slaying Four

_ Michigan Youth Displays No Real Remorse, Says He's Sorry He Shot Neighbor Children

~ LAPEER, Mich., May 28 (U. P.).—Oliver Terpening Jr., 16-year-old

today he was disappointed with the experiment. . ’ ,' “7 didn't get the thrill I expected out of it,” the youth told pol®e who brought him to the Lapeer jail. “I'm sorry now that I killed them.” “The slender, narrow-faced youth faces life imprisodment if con-

victed on the first-degree murder) wm "or Ty ends of Barbara |

i had a “crush” om Barbara and had

; her a birthday present last deliberately shot and killed four Siven I Pe children of one family ave! Sunday. The prosecutor said Ter-

The victims were Barbera Smith, ] #4: Gladys, 13 and | times.

{ five-foot, four-inch boy, who weighs |

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anged For 2 Say White House Wanted Red Films

Pressure on Hollywood

WASHINGTON, May-28 (U. P.). —A house un-American activities subcommittee charged today that “some of the most flagrant Communist propaganda films" produced’ in Hollywood were a “result of { White House pressure.” A committee member who declined use of his name said the reference to “White House pres'sure” centered about Actor Robert | Taylor's starring role *in the mo-| | tion picture “Song of Russia.” | | Mr. Taylor told the committee he {was “pressured” into’ accepting the irole before he was allowed to.enter the navy, The subcommittee also charged that the national labor relations board has “given great aid to the Communists in their efforts to in-| filtrate and control the motion picture industry.”

serious inroads that Communists have made in the industry,” the subcommittee said. The subcommitteefurged an. intensified investigation of Communist- influences ‘in Hollywood, and called on the committee to subpena twp “Communist actors, writers, directors and producers and confront them with the testimony and evidence against them.” Committee Chairman J. Parnell Thomas (R. N. J.) said the first of a series of hearings on communism in the film capital will be held

K. H. Smith that he killed four

Vo ‘arm. boy who confessed he murdered four playmates for a thrill, said | ‘experts 'committee. Mr. Eisler has been described by his sister as a “Communist in the philosophical sense.” Mr. Eisler appeared before, the subcommittee on the West Coast. It sald his answers were evasive. Brother of Gerhart The composer is a brother of

and Gladys. He shot Stanley twice and pumped four bullets into baby Janet. ; Prosecutor: Smith said the boy Sots aEait be 8 an waiting trial on charges of contempt of congress.

pening Rad a good schbol record The subcommittee said a parade

|'but was known as a “problem child of witnesses in Hollywood “revealed

a very serious situation regarding the ‘inroads that the Communists had made.”

RENEW PRICE SUPPORT WASHINGTON, May 28 (U. P). 135 pounds, was dressed in faded |—The agriculture department today work ts and was without hat or Wh th he arrived in Lapeer.|Support loan program for gum naval The victims were children of a well-to-do farmer, William Smith, by his second marriage. He had six children by his first wife and eight by his second. The elder Terpening said “Ollie” ran away from home a year ago} aftel a quarrel with his stepmother| : but was stranded at Baton Rouge, i -L#; and I had to send him $25 to] , x mal) | get home on.” i . i { Oliver quit school six weeks ago. “to go out West,” his parents said, {but changed his mind and had been spending his time caring for his father's dairy herd and playing frequently with the Smith children.

County Slashes - Budget Requests

The county council today slashed | $47,000 off of requests for special] | appropriations totaling $103,000. i The ordinance as adopted approved additional expenditures to-

and had run away from home sev-

Parents Divorced The youth's father and mother were divorced when he was 6. The

1946 rate.

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regular budget. A-request of $34,500 by the voters registration board to purchase addressograph equipment, was reduced to $23,000. A $9000 request for extra clerks was turned down. Julietta infirmary's request for $35,000 to meet rising costs of food and supplies and a big increase in population was reduced to $14,400. The county highway department’s request for $15000 to purchase gravel was cut to $7500.

Library Gets Inquiries ‘On Small Business An increase in the number of re{quests for materdal on small busiiness projects -was announced today {by Miss Marian McFadden, city | librarian, f | | Miss McFadden said the Indian- | {apolis Public library has received | scores of requests for books and | pamphlets with suggestions on] small businesses. Inquiries range | from those on fur raising ‘to small

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