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RIP) 58th YEAR—NUMBER 18

14-Year-Old Boy Confesses ‘Hocking’ $2500 in Stolen Gems

Operators of five Indianapolis pawn shops today were ordered into detective headquarters in a police crackdown after a 14-year-old boy confessed he “hocked” more than $2500 worth of stolen jewelry for a few dollars.

The operators face charges ordinance which prohibits accepting loan pledges from persons under 21. Ordered in for questioning are) operators of: Céplan’s Loan Co, 143 N. Illinois st.; Budnick's Trading Mart, Inc, 301. Massachusetts ave.; Joseph's Loan Office, 148 N. Illinois st.; Hoosier Loan Co. 233

Co., 102 W. Ohio st.

Checks Licenses Detective Chief Jesse McMurty said he would ask revocation of pawn shop licenses of operators “if they. do not show a more co-0p-erative attitude with police.” He emphasized that the arrest of the youth: came as the result of careful detective work and not through any co-operation by the pawn shops, Chief McMurtry charged that *for some time certain pawn shop operators in the city have been pccepting pledges from minors, a

Large for Age The boy, large for his age, was arrested yesterday by Detective Sgts. William Englebright and Paul Huckeriede in a pawn shop where they were making a checkup. They became suspicious. when the boy tried to pawn five valuable diamond rings. The youth was wearing & bandage on his head, which he sald was a “disguise.” The youth confessed he had stolen the rings ‘from Goodman & Co. jewelry manufacturers, 42 W. Washington st, where he had

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Valued at $2500 On July 22 he was entrusted to take two packages to the pestoffice. Out of one he got 10 women’s rings

tained three diamond ring mountings and one Shrine ring valued at $200. The next day he pawned fwo of the mountings for $2 at one pawn shop. At another he got $5 for a woman's ring mounting. He went to a third shop and pawned seven

At still another loan agency he obtained $60 for three diamond rings

He told detectives he threw away the Shrine mounting in a downtown theater. )

Seymour Passe Nabs Two Convicts

Two Indianapolis convicts with fong records, one said to be a minor member of the old Dillinger gang,

Citizens spotted «the pair acting

and surrounded them until police arrived, Policé identified them as Clyde Steinbarger, 49, of 2424 N. Alabama st., and Thomas Carl Taylor, 58, of 839 N. East st. A quantity of burglar's tools and a shotgun were found in Taylor's car and the pair was charged with possession of burglar's tools. Steinbarger Is known on police

er gang. His criminal record

tenced to 15 years for a bank robbery at Battle Ground in 1931 and since his release in 1940 has been arrested several times.

For a Meal Ticket’

CHICAGO, July 26 (U. P)~A 92-year-old husband charged today that his 37-year-old wife shortened his life by making it miserable. Llewellyn Lansdale Parker charged in a suit that his wife's “gold ” had given him high ng Segue. 2

Parker asked for a declaratory|

and that she spent her time in cocktail bars with other men.

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of violating a city pawn shop

Capture Driver

In Hit-Skip Death

5 Lose Lives in Indiana—-Accidents-A Louisville, Ky. truck driver who was involved in a fatal truckjeep accident early today was captured in a blockade as he sped from the scene of the accident. The hit-run driver is Ollie Morris, held in Seymour jail on a charge of reckless homicide. He was captured near Columbus by Columbus and state police. State police sald he sped on after he sideswiped a jeep driven by Frank Gardner, 52, Scottsburg, four miles south of U. 8. 31 and state road 50 in Jackson county at 1:40 a. m. Four Passengers Hurt Mr. Gardner was killed instantly and four passengers were injured, one critically. Four Hoosier youths also were killed in early morning highway accidents. The dead are: ' JOHN EUGENE STALETS, 18, Bedford. . RADIFFER MOFFITT, 17, Bedford.

CHARLES E. DAILEY, 21, Butler. LOY G. MILLER, 19, South

The two Bedford teen-agers were fatally injured when a light paneled truck in which they were riding skidded on a treacherous curve on highway 37 eight miles south of Bedford and struck a utility pple.

In Critical Condition

Dun ‘Memorial the Hospital in a critical condition is - another passenger, Roy Catozzi, 20, Bedford. : ‘The youths were retuning from Spring Mill state park in the truck, driven by Kenneth Root, 19, Bedford, Officials said & light mist covered the pavement and that the truck skidded on the sharp curve. The truck plunged off the road, through a fence and struck the pole. Another teen-age passenger, Jack May, Bedford, was not hospitalized. State police blamed drink and high' speed for the death of the Butler youth. He was killed and a passenger, Robert Musser, 22, Hamilton, owner of the car, was critically injured near midnight when the car plunged off U. 8. 6, west of Butler.” * Driver Lost Control The car was traveling about’ 90 miles an hour, police said, when the driver lost control. The car skidded 52 feet on the berm, turned over and then rolled 243 feet. State police said both men had been drinking, Hospitalized after —the hit-run Jeep-truck accident in Seymour hospital are Mrs. Evelyn Kahl, Austin, in a critical condition, Marshall Ritchey, Miss Peggy Hayes, Scottsburg, and Mrs. Faith Ripley, Austin. All were passengers in the jeep. Mr, Miller was killed when he ignored a stop sign and smashed into a truck at a South Bend inter~ section. He was an employee of U. 8. Rubber Co. plant,

BIDDLE'S MOTHER DIES

PHILADELPHIA, July 26 (U. P.). —Mrs. Cordelia Drexel Biddle, 69, mother of the former U. 8. ambassador to Poland, died here yesterday after a short illness.

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Washington Calling—

No Action Taken on

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Bill to Let GI's Cash Bonds Becomes Law

Congress Rushes

BULLETIN ' WASHINGTON, July 26 (U. P.). ~President Truman today signed into law the bill permitting vet‘erans to cash their terminal leave pay bonds ahy time after Sept. 1 By SANDOR 8. KLEIN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, July * 26.—The first session of the Republicancontrolled 80th congress adjourns

‘| today after seven hectic months

of work and strife, It leaves behind a record highlighted by basic labor reforms and two vain attempts to cut income

taxes, Only- a half dozen important

| measures, including five appropria- ‘| tions bills Tor government agencies,

were left on the “must” calendar. They were in the last stages of enactment. Republican leaders were confident they would be out of the way before the day was over. Speaker Joseph W. Martin Jr. predicted that weary house members would be ready to hit the vacation trail by 4:30 p. m. (Indianapolis time). Senate leaders were less specific. Schedule Kept Flexible Unfinished business in the house included a bill to extend the wool price support program until Dec. 31. Otherwise, the house schedule was kept flexible to sandwich in the remaining appropriation bills. On the. other side of the capitol, some senators hoped to squeeze in a measure to investigate the need for the state department “Voice of America broadcasts” and a proposal to study immigration problems, including President Truman's pigeonholéd plea for admission of 400,000 Europeans. The swan song for this first Republican congress in 18 years was written to the tune of politics. Motivated by Politics Only the night before the Democrats filibustered to death a Republican move to intervene in the politically-explosive vote fraud case in President Truman's native Missourl. They in turn said the Republicans were motivated by politics.

viewed ‘on the senate fidor at an angry session that kept senators at their desks well after midnight. For nearly an: hour Democrats hammered away at What they termed Republican responsibility for high prices, the housing shortage and woes of the farmers. For nearly an hour the Republicans sat back and faced the onslaught. Finally Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, a leading prospect for the 1948 presidential nomination, had enough and tartly called for a pre-dawn recess. “There seems to be a good deal of politics: engaged in this—we’ll gain time if the senate recesses until morning,” he said. Meanwhile, legislation was shut? tling between house and senate, and then to the White House, in rapid fire order. The latest sent. to Mr. Truman for signature included a bill to end government control over consumer installment buying Nov. 1 and one to set quotas for producers in the U. 8. sugar market in the five

For the weary senators and representatives, adjournment day came none too soon. They had fought each other—they had occasionally fought the President. It was a tough session in which such critical issues as foreign affairs, federal . spending, taxation and labor problems got the major attention. There wag no disputing that the Republican majority had delivered on the G. O. P. campaign Pisdge

Congress Starts to Pack, Many Problems Unsolved

Military Training,

Housing or Economic Aid to Europe + WASHINGTON, July 26.—List of things ‘congress left

FOREIGN POLICY—Part this country will play in

Europe and Asia is left in

doubt. Leaders say situation is critical but they go home

NATIONAL DEFENSE—No action on universal miliProblems of military collaboration with

" Toward Adjournment]

SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1947

tered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis, Ind. Issued daily Sxoupt Sunday

sTruman’s Mother Is Dead: President Flying !lome

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; MUTT SHOW PRIZES - se A Times bhofographer on a y visit to Elorborgor wy found Teen- Agers haking leashes as prizes for The Times Mutt Show. Left to right are Sara Spradling, Janet Callon, Judy O'Harrow, Jim Miles, J. B. Cameron and Billy Brass. The mutt dog, well-known to the neighborhood, is "Queenie."

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Lincoln Papers Prove Valuable

Rich in Detail of

His Administration na DOROTHY WILLIAMS -

Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, July 268 (U. P), ~The long-secret papers of Abra. ham Lincoln—opened to the puble for the first time tdday—dis-~ closed new evidence of his “patient attempts” to avoid war between the Lincoln scholars, after a midnight to noon appraisal of the 18,350 papers in the collection, were “unanimously enthusiastic” over the contents, They called ‘the collection’ “rich in the details of the military, political and personal aspects of Lincoln’s administration.” Clarify History Until today the collection, deted in the library of congress in 1920, had been locked up in accord with the will of the Civil war president's son, the late Robert Todd Lincoln, : The son had stipulated that the collection be kept from all eyes— save those of an indexing expert— until 21 years after his death, A first study of the items failed to yield any information. which would “require any considerable revision of written history,” the. library of congress reported on the basis of the combined appraisal of experts, Still in Dark “Rather,” the statement continued, “the collection provides much needed amplification, clarification and explanation of passages in history which have hitherto been but imperfectly known.” The experts sald they found nothing bearing on Lincoln’s courtship of Ann Rutledge, whose death thwarted their plans to be married. The collection also failed to yleld Taft- any new clues to the assassination plot against Lincoln, or 4p end the recurrent speculation over his legitimacy and that of his mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln. One expert called attention to Lincoln's “patient attempts to avoid the conflict (Civil war).” + “His repeated amendments of his first inaugural address showed his

civil war,” the expert commented,

‘Russian Roulette’ Fatal to Husband DEARBORN, Mich, sJuly 26 (U, P.)~A bride of two months told

Dearborn police today that her husan army air force lieutenant,

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Inspector Tooley Defends

Police in Brutality Case

Defendant Convicted on Drunk Charge, ~ But Judge Howard Rebukes Two Officers

Two police officers who yesterday were rebuked in court for “unwarranted brutality” in beating up a drunk today were defended

by Police Inspector Donald Tooley.

“I think they acted only in the manner of self-defense,” Inspector Tooley said of Officers Thomas Yott and Jack Herman. “Let it be a

40.8R¥.Arunk who. thinks he- gan beat the police. force.

"1 don’t pay my men to lose fights, I expect them to win.” Yesterday in’ Municipal court 3 Judge Joseph Howard heard couns

‘| ter-charges ‘from Duita Fisher, 38,

who said police officers beat him to insensibility after arresting him for drunkenness. A charge of resisting an officer was later placed against him.

Lined Up Four Deep

-- Witnesses, police officers and station personnel were lined four deep around the bench yesterday afternoon as Mr. Fisher told how he was brought to the turnkey’s office and held by one policeman while another beat shim, He also presented to the court a medical statement listing a broken nose, sunken jawbone, bloodclot in the sinus region and injured right leg among his injuries. After a two-hbtur hearing Judge Howard found Mr. Pisher guilty of drunk charges. He acquitted him of resisting an officer because “he apparently didn’t start resisting until this affair in the * turnkey’s office.” He also suspended a fine of $10 and costs “in view of the medical expense to which Mr. Fisher's arrest put him.” “It appears to me if a man is drunk and brought to the turnkey’s

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ft Wayne Youth Believed Drowned

Times State Service ANGOLA, Ind, July 26.—State police and Steuben county officers today planned to use an airplane in a'’search for the body of a Ft. Wayne youth, believed to have drowned yesterday. Missing is James Whiteman, 17, who was last seen swimming yesterday afternoon off Bledsoe Beach, Lake James, where he and friends had rented a cottage.

‘lke’ to Visit Alaska

WASHINGTON, July 26 (U. P.), ~Gen, Dwight D, Eisenhower, army chief of staff, will take off from Washington tomorrow on a flying visit to army installations in Alaska, the war department announced today.

HEADS FOR NICE PARIS, July 26 (U. P.) —Mrs. Eva Peron, wife of the Argentine president, left by plane today for Nice and Monte Carlo for a visit of sey-

eral days.

Cinderella Dutch Girl Takes Chicago by Storm

Corrie Koort, Who Tended Local GI's Grave, Photographed 32 Times, Shops for Dream Outfit

Times Special

CHICAGO, IH, July 26—"The

biggest thing in Chicago today.

Dutch Girl,” Corrie Koort, is the

Everyone in the Windy City is talking about 20-year-old Corrie Koort who cared for the grave of Pfc. George E. Moore of Indianapolis 80 faithfully that his family used his college fund to give her a trip

to America. Brought here by the American Legion, Miss Koort and her beneactors, Mr. and Mrs. George R. Moore, 5224 theastern ave. were welcomed by half a hundred Leglonnaires and a host of photographers and reporters when she arrived on the Riley yesterday. She was photographed 32 times before she got out of 12th st. station. Two Dutch war brides now living in Chicago who lived a few miles from Corrie in Heelerheide, Holland, were among the welcoming

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Given $500 Gift Today every Chicago newspaper

and was a backstage guest at the hit show “Carrousel.” Today Miss Koort will shop for her dream outfit. Newsreels will record her transformation from her red, white and blue home-made Dutch attire to her new American clothes and hairdo. She Will visit the N. B. C. studio where she and Jim Ameche will make records for the weekly American Legion show, the largest transcribed radio show in the world. Tour of City A surprise visitor to the show will be the Rev. Fr. Plerre Heynan, priest of Margraten cémetery where Pfc. Father Heynan,

Hoosier Wife Slain, Hold Mate

Dunkirk Shooting

Follows Argument DUNKIRK, Ind, July 26 (U, P). ~~A 30-year-old mother was slain in an alley today. Police said her ged hus. band admitted firing two blasts

PRICE FIVE CENTS

Famous Son En Route to Grandview, Mo.

Death Announcement Made by Family GRANDVIEW, Mo., July 26 (U. P.).—Mrs. Martha Ellen Truman, mother of the President, died today while her

_|famous son was flying to her

bedside. The announcement was made at the home of Vivian Truman. She died in her modest frame cottage here in her native Jackson

yo so.unty. °*

The President, advised of his mother’s rapidly weakening condition by the family physician, Dr.

from Washington in his special plane at 11:30 a.‘m. (Indianapolis time). Suffers Relapse

Mrs. Truman, whose remarkable strength had surprised doctors since she fractured her hip in a fall in her bedroom Feb. 13, suffered a relapse July 3. Since then she had been confined to her bed. Her hip mended, but the long stay in bed during the winter and early spring months had taken“its toll. On May 17, word was sent to the White House that she was critically {ll

vigil at her bedside. He left only when doctors assured him that his mother was on the mend, Mr. Truman delayed his depart-

while the bill for “unification” u the armed forces was him at the airport. He’ signed . there in the cabin of the Sacred Cow jus oe taking off, fothe other ‘Preity Bad’ Eh “and worried, Mr.

from a sawed-off shotgun into her

‘| distance from the back door.

body. Police Chief Elzie Wright found | Mrs. Wilma Lykins, attractive bru- | nette glass manufacturing plant worker, dead between her home and a Dunkirk church. Chief Wright sald Mrs. Lykins' husband, Henry, 35, willingly admitted the shooting: He said he was morose because his wife filed suit for divorce. “If I can’t have her, nobody else can,” Chief Wright quoted Lykins as saying. The police chief said Lykins showed no remorse for the act. 2 Daughters Asleep Chief Wright said the couple's two young daughters were asleep in their mother’s home when Lykins walked in to-talk to his wife. Apparently they argued and Lykins threatened her with the gun. Mrs. Lykins ran out of the house, Chief Wright sald, but her husband caught up with her a short

The couple was married in 1933. Mrs. Lykins asked a divorce earlier this month on grounds of alleged cruel and inhuman treatment. She charged that Lykins was unfaith-’ ful to her and that he drank excessively. Wright and Sheriff Clarence Bishop arrested Lykins on an open charge and questioned him here.

Youngstown Bus Crash Injures 40

YOUNGSTOWN, O, July 26 (U.

Truman Si west a4 few hours after the family physician at’ Grandview advised him by tele"

| phone that the condition of his mother, It was the President's second urgent summons home—and his fourth flying visit to his mother's bedside—since she was Injured Last May, ‘when Mrs. Truman's condition took a serious turn, the President spent 12 days with her. She rallied then and pulled out of danger. Calls Emergency Crew The sudden summons home came at a time when Mr. Truman was studying a flood of bills from con~ gress, which was cleaning up fits legislative docket so it oould .ad-

Journ, by nightfall.

Because of the sudden turn of events, the President was forced to call on an emergency crew tQ fly him to Grandview. His usual pilot, Lt. Col. Henry T. Myers, was not available. Col. Myers flew Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder and other government officials to Brazil last Monday in the new presidential plane, Independence.

At the controls of the old presi-

dential plane, Sacred Cow, was Capt. Charles M. Mills, 31, Nederland, Tex, an air transport come mand pilot. It was the first time Capt. Mills had flown the President, Col. Myers previously has been at the controls on ‘all presidential flights. Mrs, Truman was born Nov. 28, 1853, near the heart of what has rown to be Kansas City, Mo, Her father, Solomon Young, was a freighter on the overland trails which ran westward from Independence and Westport. Martha was

P.).~A rush-hour crash of two Youngstown Municipal Railway Co. busses, both loaded with workbound passengers, today injured some 40 persons, five of them seriously, The crash occurred at 8:15 a. m. at a busy intersection near down-| town Youngstown. Between 25 and’ 30 passengers were taken -to the south side unit of Youngstown hospital for treatment and 15 were taken to St, Elizabeth hospital i Most of the injured were suffer-| ing fractured arms snd legs and! possible internal injuries Police said that one of the busses crashed into the middle of the| other, They said it appeared the air brakes on the second bus afteg to hold. Both of the busses were driven oy veteran drivers with the company, and both had long safety records. One of the drivers was John Rock Sr, The other, seriously injured and facing loss of a leg, was Jim

Traffic at the intersection was’ tied up for more than an hour until the Wreckage could be ented away.

born on his farm. In that vicinity, except for a short time, she spent

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