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58th YEAR—NUMBER 102.

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TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1947

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AH, A DISC — The Rev. Charles Gunzolus says there's wotbing to get excited about with all this * "flying disc talk."

Any I akers?

Rewards Offered in Chicago, Los “Angeles

And Spokane; Army

By UNITED PRESS

A “flying saucer” in the

but those seen in the sky were still a-dime a dozen. There

were no takers for rewards of

Los. Angeles and Spokane fora genuine flying saucer. The army air and ground forces announced that they were investigating the reported cloud-hopping discs with

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‘Open Minded’ on Discs hand was worth $3000 today,

$1000 each offered in Chicago,

He's seen 'em for years in i living room,

Lewis

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igns Pact, Orders 195,000 Back To Mines

Son's Story Of Slayings by Father Probed ‘|

| | Cambridge City Man Tells of 4 Killings The skeleton of a horse dead for | 124 years may become the key to vestigation of a Cambridge City] Ra charge that his late father {had committed four murders. | While 59-year-old James C. Law-' {rence was being buried yesterday lat Cambridge City, his son Walter Lawrence, 34, unfolded to state po-| § lice his fantastic story of murders | dating back to the rum-running| days of the early 1920's. By today, investigation of the | grisly tale had fanned out over three counties. Detective Captain John Barton said some details of the younger Lawrence's statement already had been proved and others were being investigated as swiftly as possible. 3 Lie Test- Givén 4 A lie detector test at state police {headquarters yesterday indicated Lawrence was telling the truth. “Other than that,” Capt. Barton said, “we have no tangible evidence that it's anything but a story. But we're going to find out.” The younger Lawrence said his father, who died of a “heart attack” in Anderson Friday, was the slayer of George W. Ward, 69-year-old swap shop proprietor who was bludgeoned to death in his Cambridge City shop Dec. 15, 1945. The | murderer never was caught. a Three Other Killings Moreover, Walter Lawrence told state police; he recalled three pre-

_ Spi ghd Jsivious murders, all when he was 8 aa ema ‘hoy au Mil connected with! Jenner ad his father's activities as a "“moonshiner” in the early '20s. Qnwmen A Cot rs

“They Fly" Around, [mmm “mn in o08 int Stacked" Against Soldiers, He Says

’ {Two others, employees of the elder | My Room, He Says Lawrence, were murdered becausé By GEORGE E. WELDEN { - WASHINGTON. July 8_(U. Py 14 for their first big reunion, they’ ‘dead” buddy, Al Harding:

BACK IN THE GROOVE—AI Harding is back at th

country in the Battle of the Bilge.

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they knew too much, he said, While scientists and army of - | The horse, Walter said, was the ficials appear baffled over the re- property of the. last. two victims ported = “flying discs”. throughout and was killed and disposed of the country, a 50-year-old (ndi- along with: certain. other of their Senator ‘William E. Jetiner (R. Ing anapolis spiritualist minister said personal “effects. The frst” three accused the army today of “stack-! today he wasn't puzzled at all. {killings, he said, took place In|jnsv courtsemartial against -enlisted faced former comrades came to tell “I've seen plenty of flying discs Payette county. just across the! ne P he men'in “shocking” ways: {brightened up with astonishment.

“1To Greet 106th Buddies it''s moos

“Al Harding Survived Burp” Gu ‘In 4% Still Carries One of the Bullets in His Head :

By ROBERT BLOEM When. the ex-G. L's of the 108th. division come to Indianapolis July the U. M. W. dist¥ici president for

At least they thought he was dead. ‘When the war wis over, Jorg- Teturn to work at’ the beginning

| what had happened, Al met them at \t the door door and the long faces|

Daily Wage | Set at $13.00, Raise of $1 2

| Indiana Included; | South Won't Sign | WASHINGTON, July 8 (U. P). | John L. Lewis today formally signed a new wage contract with northern and Midwestern soft coal operators. The new contract will send 195, {000 of the nation's 400,000 bitu- | minous miners back to work after { & brief work stoppage. | The pact—hest ever won by Mr. Lewis—covers immediately about 75 per cent of the soft coal industry's output, 3 It provides a $13.05 daily wage rate—an increase of $1.20, The northerh and Midwestern miners ‘were to go back to work as soon as’ possible—on the after. noon shifts in many cases. They technically had been on strike since midnight—the énd of a 10 day. va- - cation “perfod—under “the “United » + Mine Workers’ (A. P. of L) “no z contract. no work" policy. South, West Left Out Miners in Southern and Far Western pits remained out. Operators in those areas have re. fused thus far to go along with ths agreement reached between Mr. Lewis arid the notthern operators. Illinois and Indiana operators signed the agreement. The signing céremoriy took place |in Mr. Lewis’ swank: walnut-pan-|eled office in U. M. W. headquar-

e old stond s aor Touing | buddies of the 106th Division who came back to tell his folks how he "died" for his | ters

« Mr. Lewis, his usually sober face ‘wrtathed if smiles; sighed for the

| i Believed Dead ome

committee, signed: a most owners,

signed for Py a owners and Hubert H Indiana and 11 linols strip had opera‘ors, Work Orders Phoned As each operator group signed,

11 ‘be swapping war yarns with thelr ‘the area covered by the signature = telephoned orders for the men to

Mts. Albert Harding Sr.. { of the next regular shift. ~~. Mr. Lewis made it clear that Gia | southern operators and other hold-

Al's mother,

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appeared in amy iiving room dure ing meetings,” he said. The Rev. Charles Gunzolus, who has been holding spiritualist meet ings over 30 years, claims to have the most “magnetized” house in the United States.

an open mind. | mostly around the edges,” Mr. But privately, high-rank-| Dugan said. “We drove toward it, ing army officers said they fs it vanished. We watched it for about three minutes. «It apbelieved the saucers were a hoax ed to be der the clouds.” and that some persons were the| PSF un victims of Hysteria. _ The weather bureau said the One of the latest reported “sau-| cloud. bank was about 5500 - feet “Tops Them All cers” was from Lillington, N. C,|high. “In order to hold spiritual meetwhere two college students, Albert]! Meanwhile, the mystery of the ings the room must be magnetized,” Dugan and Charles Cross, said they saucers took on an International he said. “I guess this house at 515 saw a “bright light” in the sky|flavor. Blake st, tops them all. | about 10- miles from Raleigh ai{ The discs, already reported over! “The only difference between 11:55 p. m. yesterday. Mr. Duganimest of the 48 states and parts of the” flying discs the papers are said they first thought it was a {Canada, were reported over Mexico talking about and the ones I have star, but when it started movingiCity.. - Several persons telephoned | here in my home are that the ones they stopped their automobile and (the Mexican national defense min- in the sky are highly maguufied,” | * watched, istry to report the discs flying “in! he explained. “It moved in a circular orbit and a westerly direction.” A ministry The Rev. Mr. Gunzolus, who has! appeared to be elliptical in shape spokesman sald ghe didn't believe over 200 diplomas to prove that|? with blue light radiating from it,’ them. he can get in touch ‘with the spirit!

: Id, al h - Russian Vice Consul Scoffs at Reports Val op 30 THis she Ciiizolus Col

lege of Spiritual Knowledge. | Russian vice consul Eugene Tu- had seen the saucers and drew dia-| In ‘the eerie setting of the onenantsev in Los Angeles scoffed at grams of the objects and their|story frame dwelling on Blake st. suggestions that the saucers might paths. Mr. Gunzolus catches “spirits” in| be from Russia. “What you have seen were erd|a trap above the door. “Russia respects the’ sovereignty|corpuscles moving across the retinas of all governments and by no of your eyes,” Mr. Cotton said. “You stretch of the imagination would can now draw your own conclusions! it use another country for a prove from reports from overseas.” ing ground,” the vice consul said., The Stockholm Aftonbladet re- | “Russia has plenty of territory of ported that two Danes who said’

|do next. “I've heard knocks on the ceil- i

mentation.” Copenhagen were laughed idto si- . High- -ranking U. 8B. army of ficés {lence by friends .who remembered agreed with Mr. Tunantsev. They. 1a t summer's “ghost rockets” over discounted theories that the flying, weden which turned out’ to be discs might” be secret weapons for meteors. use in bacteriological warfare, They| At Prankfurt, Germany, Lt. Col. | said it was significant that none Hartwin A. Schulze, chief of preof the discs had yet registered on ventive medicine for the European army radar. command chief surgeon's office, of-~ In- Sydney, Australia, F. 8. Cot-|fered the suggestion that the sauton, psychology professor, told 450 cers might be “muscae volitantes,” students to go stare at the sky and|or “flying flies,” the small, transsee if they could spot any flying|lucent objects sometime found in saucers. Within 10 minutes, 22 stu- the gelatinous ‘part of the eye bedents returned, reported that they hind the lens.

. Yes, Ladies, You Have a New Style Hat In San Francisco, Frank Borel, “for the capture of a flying disc, if. designer, productd a woman's hat tangible, or the true explanation of | designed from a flying saucer he the phenomena.” The other $2000! saw in a nightmare. can be earned only by producing The three $1000 rewards were|® “Ving saucer” The Inventors’ of a Northbrook, TIl, company; the|° its offer. Spokane Athletic Round Table, a| Among the latest crop of “eye~ group of gagsters, and the Los|Witnesses” were some who teported Angeles World Inventors Exposi- |discs landing in a mountain region tions. where it would take several days Mr. Culligan offered ‘his rewird to get them and others landing ard

. fying ¢ off before anyone could get Times Index = |

‘Amusements 21 Movies ,..... 2 were swamped with tef¢phone calls | Carnival 3 trom persons who - said - they had | Marquis Childs 13 P. C. Othman 16 seer. the discs.

Classified 24-25 Pattern. ......29 | Comics .......J7 Radio . nid lacs Have ben reported sa ] Records

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Capt. Barton said Fayette county authorities would be asked to try to find the remains of the animal. Meanwhile, other state police de-~ tectives sought a more detailed ac-

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Two Men Killed In Traffic. Here

Two more lives were snuffed out rin local auto accidents during the night, bringing a brief lull in the county's abrupt end. The two fatalities brought 1947 death toll to 54. A

the third

{ Indianapolis resident was injured

fatally in a two-car Columbus; The car driven by Charles Jack-

crash near

traffic slaughter to an|

yr ] have line from Cambridge City. . j in my years and all of them have g y He made the charge ih 'a letter

calling on Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson to investigate. To support his charge, he submitted a purported 'mentorandum from a brigadier general criticizing the tactics of

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You Can't Relax— There's Always Danger in Traffic

Don’t relax - just because the, holiday traffic jam is over. Two

overnight, Death takes “a holiday only In 54 stories, Drunken driving, excessive

Traffic Deaths

Here This Year failure to watch!

more persons died in local traffic]

Some of his old friends still don't know that when Field Marshal von’ Rundstedt's hordes riddled his position with “burp” gun slugs he survived. Here's the story told The! Times, pretty much as his former, buddies. of the Golden Lion division will hear it when they meet here: The “Lions went into the line near St. Vith, Belgium, a green, inexperienced outfit, five days before von "Rundstedt kicked off on| the Battle of the Bulge. Sergeant Al was holed up with about 45 men in the -conutry home of a former German colonel? Were Expecting Trouble [ “About 3 a. m. on Dec. 16, al relates, {the Germans subsided into a nervewracking silence. We had been

pecting trouble.

Cla § Skies Greet m Star Fans

| CHICAGO, July 8 (U, P.) —Baseball's galaxy of stars will go on parade today before an estimated 43,000 Midwest fans in the 14th re{newal of the American-National | league all-star classic in ivy-covered ‘Wrigley fleld—home of the Chicago Cubes. .

that Hal Newhouser, Detroit mound ace, would start the game for the {American league all-stars. Cronin sald Spud Chandler, his “original |

Manager + Joe Cronin ‘announced i

arm and would not pitch. { The day was clear and sunny with the temperature at the ball

speed, carelessness,| alerted to pull back and were ex- | park about 75 degrees. A 6-to-12- prices.

mile-per-hour-northeast wind rolled!

outs will have to sign the same agreement if they want their mines to resume production. Benjamin Fairless, president of U. 8. Steel Corp., Issued a statement aimed at getting the entire coal industry signed up by nightfall. Mr. Fairless sald the agreement should be “highly beneficial to the whole economy of the nation.” Criticized for ‘Deal’ Mr. Fairless has been bitterly criticized, particularly by the South, for making a deal with Lewis which granted the U. M. W. chief most of his major temands. The contract was the best ever won by Mr. Lewis.

“the noise of shelling from |starting choice, developed a sore| Mine operators said extension of

the agreement to the entire ndustry would mean -an average increase of $1 a ton in retall coal

C. M. White, president of the

son, 50, turned over when he lost| traffic signals or obey the rules—| «at dawn, the motor sergeant an into the park toward home plate, Republic Steel Corp. said steel

fracture and internal injuries. Lucien Austin, 47, of 3306 S. East

He admits at times the “spirits” | | control as he drove south on N. Me- |all these are an invitation v0 4is-|1 went to a little shed behind the (Over the bleachers, get a little out of hand and he ridian st, at Kessler blvd. He died | aster. Unless each driver and each noise to start the compressor motor | doesn’t know what they're going to en route to City hospital of a skull | pedestrian makes himself person-| which pumped our water supply.

Ewell Blackwell, Reds’

the 'Cincinnatt| star pitcher who hurled a

prices also would be increased. Lewis and Pittsburgh area operators actually reached a settlement

| ally responsible for prevention of we jet it' run for a little bit. and|nC-Mit game last month against|of their 2!3-day wrangle late yes

traffic accidents, police warn, the death toll of 54 will reach 55 or 56

its own for any scientific experi- they had seen flying saucers over (Continued cn Page 6—Column 5) (Continued op Page SuColinn 6) by this time next week.

when we cut it off, we could hear

the Boston Braves and followed it | with 8'% innings of no-hit baseball |

terday. The, last issue settled involved the

| (Continued on Page = olumn 1 against the Brooklyn Dodgers, will choice of language for a clause

Friendly Barber Was Tired at End of Long Day; He Lost in the Detily Gamble Against Heavy Traffic

Barber's Chair Empty On S. ‘lllinois St.

By RICHARD LEWIS Lucien Austin, 47, the barber at

the fourth chair at Mac's Barber shop, 120 8. Illinois st., said goodnight at 10 p. m. yesterday and took the Madison ave. bus to his Suburban home at 3306 S. East st. It had been a long day, Mr, Austin hadn't. been feeling too well. | In fact, when he went into Hook's drug store at the commer of 8. Illinois and Georgia sts, Bert Barnhart, the pharmacist, thought he wasn’t looking well at all. Mr. Austin was a man who liked to laugh out loud, the pharmacist

said. The boys in the drugstore were regular customers of his. They had been for years, from the time he barbered in the shop up on Ohio st. » » “HE'D COME in several times during the morning, just to pass the time of day,” the pharmacist said. “Say, be was a cheerful fellow. He'd talk about that boy of his. “Well, yesterday. .l thought he didn't -look, so good .and I said to him, ‘Why don't you go home today and take it easy?’ He suid ‘No, 1 have to ‘work: today. “Well, _ noticed perspiration

. Orchestra Bus

breaking out’ all ove over his ace. "Hel

be the starter for Manager Eddic Dyer's Nationa league nine.

Sun to Shine Joy Tomorrow

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

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6am. ...58 10am. 712 Tam. «83"'11am.... "75 8am. am 6 § 1pm wl

Sunny skies were were forecast for to-| |day and tomorrow with clear skies | for “flying. disc” observers predict} ed for tonight, The weatherman said, that . slight rise in temperature will prevail tomorrow, Yesterday's high of 80 degrees dropped 58 at 6 a. m. today.

Hits Truck, 13 Hurt

LAPORTE, Ind. July ‘8 U. P.).— A chartered bus filed with menibers of Desi: Amez nationally {known dance orchestra collided with |a truck today and 13 persons were | injured. Ten members of the orchestra, which played for one’ Season on

takefi "to hospitals here and at Michigan City, Ind. The other injured Snaliuden a i and we Stivers of the truck

the -Bob, Hope rédio show, Were!-..

which Mr. Lewis wanted to exempt

{his union from damage suits and

unfair labor practice charges of the Taft-Hartley law.

Mr. Lewis retreated on this de(Continued on Page 6—~Column'1)

Stork | Brought 'Em

ILADELPHIA, July 8 (U. P.). hr Philadelphia 200 had two new arrivals today and officials

| weren't kidding. when. they said

. 86- 12 (Noon).. 76 | they were brought by the stork.

| The new arrivals were baby s . "is.

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