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Princeton, Ind., Man Kills to Settle Grudge

+ suspect Captured After Chase Through Town

PRINCETON, Ind, Aug. 6 (U. P).—Roy Turpin, husky 46-year-old auto parts salesman, was held on open charges today after he killed a farm couple to “settle a grudge” and then slew his sister to eliminate the only witness. Police said the case would be placed before the next session of the county grand jury. Turpin recently suffered a nervous breakdown. Yesterday he went berserk in the modest farm home where he lived with his unmarried sister, Nora, 48, and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bateman, both 55. 5 . Came Home Drunk

He shot the farm couple, he said, :

after he became enraged because Mr. Bateman “came home drunk” Monday night. Neighbors said Turpin neither drank nor smoked. Sheriff James McDonald said Turpin's sister apparently heard the shots. He sald his office received an urgent call from a woman pleading for help but that the call was cut short. Found Dead Near Phone

Deputies who rushed to the house| two miles northeast of here learned! why the call was broken off. Miss| Turpin lay dead at the telephone. | She had been struck with a chair and her head almost severed with a butcher knife. Sheriff McDonald s#id she was! unable to run for help because of! a broken ankle suffered in an accident. She managed to hobble to the telephone but was killed as she! made the call. |

Shoot Out Tires {

Deputies chased Turpin who fled in his car. They took him into] custody after shooting. out his tires in order to stop him. Part of the chase was through the Princeton business section. ; Turpin operated a used auto parts business here before the war, and later bought a similar store in Denver. Neighbors said he suffered a nervous breakdown at Denver and returned here several months ago to recuperate.

Boone County Teachers Set Institute Sept. 3

Times State Service { LEBANON, Ind., Aug. 6.—The an-| nual institute of Boone county school teachers will be held in the] Junior High School building here | beginning at 8:45 a.m. Sept. 3. |

Paul&W. Nicely, county superin- |

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teaching vacancies to be filled. They include a woman mathematics an €l1.s physical education teacher for i

tendent, said there are still They

the high school at nearby James-| creases ranged from 3 to 7 per cent, tewn Two iuby licensed elemen-|

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Great Books" |

To Rural Areas _ Experiment Outlined | By Chairman

Some 4000 Hoosiers are expected | to be enrolled in Great Books| courses this fall, according to Lynn | A. Williams Jr. of Indianapolis, | president of Chicago's Great Books foundation. Mr. Williams, on léave of absence from his duties as vice president of Stewart - Warner “Corp., yesterddy spoke at a luncheon for educators and press representatives at the Columbia club.

grqups to rural areas, Mr. Williams sal This state offers ideal test material, since it combines rural

added. . will Serve as Guide Results obtained in. the Great Books courses in Indiana will guide

liams stated. Stressing the Mmpprtance of extending liberal education today, Mr. Williams said: ‘The only protection against revolution in America and war in the world is to be found in education.” “If mankind can be educated to the basic problems of the world, mankind can solve those basic problems,” he said. The preliminary step in the Hoo-

TRIPLE SLAYER—State trooper Bernard Nigg escorts Roy

Turpin, 44, from the Gibson county jail at Princeton after Turpin admitted to the coroner that he murdered three persons early yesterday. The spot on the left side of Turpin's forehead Js where

a bullet glanced from his scalp when he-attempted suicide. ___ versity, starting Sept. 29, and Earl-

Frazer, Packard Prices Boosted

DETROIT, Aug. 6 (U. P.).—The Kaiser-Frazier - Corp. today announced a price increase of $99 on

its standard Frazier model, effective- |

ly immediately. The boost was the third hy auto

manufacturers within a week. It fol- |

lowed Packard's announcement last

Inight, jumping prices on all models! ©f Evansville.

$92 to $200. Kaiser-Frazier said no price boost

The increase also did not affect the

‘Evansville Lawyer In Line for Award

i Times, State Service

| BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Aug. 6.—!

| Members of the faculty of the Indiana university School of Law have voted to award to Dean J. Call, 1046 uniyersity law ° gradtate, the Bureat of National Affairs prize as the student whose scholastic record showed the most satisfactory prog{ress during his senior year. Mr. Call is now associated with {the law firm of Walker and Walker,

Rape Case Trial Set

Times State Service

| GREENCASTLE, Ind. Aug. 6 (U,

isier Great Books program will be the establishing of training courses for discussion-group leaders. Courses {will be given at Wabash college, |starting Aug. 20; Butler university, |starting Sept. 23; Notre Dame uni-

{ham college, starting in November, {the date to be announced later, Goodrich on Committee Members of the temporary committee for the foundation's Indiana |activities include: Pierre F. Good'rich, Indianapolis attorney, chairiman; Dr. Frank Sparks, president, | Wabash college; Dr. Thomas E. {Jones, president, Earlham college; Ben Watt, state superintendent of {public instruction: Dr. Albert G. {Parker Jr., president, Hanover col|lege; the Rev. John J. Cavanaugh, { president, ‘Natre Dame university; Dr. M. O. Ross, president, Butler university; Byron: K. Trippet, dean,

Wabash college; Dr. Clarence

(was in sight “at this time” on its| For Greencastle Farmer Etroymson, professor of economics, {other Frazer model, the Manhattan. |

| Butler university; Harold Brigham, (state librarian; Dr. Clyde E. Wild-

Kaiser Special, the company’s 10W=ip, _john Sosteller, 27, today was man, president, DePauw university;

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Packard announced the

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the Rev. T. J. Brennan, Notre Dame university, and Dr. D. Elton Trueblood, Earlham college. Members of the committee for Indianapolis include: John Ruckelshaus, attorney, chairman: Mrs. Harold Buell, vice chairman and executive secretary; Mr. Brigham: R. E. Cavanaugh; Miss Marian McFadiden, director, Indianapolis public li- | brary; Emmet Rice, assistant superintendent, Indianapolis public !schools; Walter Leckrone, editor, The Indianapolis Times; Miss Margaret Pierson, state archivist, Indiana state library, and Dr. Efroym-

Planning Boards Gain in State

" Times State Service BROOK, Ind, Aug. 6.— Nearly half of Indiana’s 102 cities have planning commissions, the Indiana economic council reported at its meéting today at Purdue university's: civil engineering camp near here. Reviewing the growth in city and county planning, Council Director Kenneth L. Schellie said that all of the major cities in the state, those of the first, second and third classes, have planning setups. There are 49 city and 19 county planning bodieg in operation with a number of others in development stages, Mr. Schellie said. Growing interest in civil and economic planning was credited mainly to intensive activity by the state council during the past 15 months.

I. U, Plans to Expand Kokomo Extension Unit

Times State Service BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Aug. 6.-— Increased classroom and laboratory space at the Kokomo extension center of Indiana university will be provided through remodeling plans approved by the university's board of trustees and announced today by J. A. Franklin, treasurer of the university, Established two years ago when the university took over Kokomo Junior college, the Kokomo center has a 180 per cent increase in enrollment this summer as’ compared with the 1946 summer session. The center is directed by Dr. Virgil Hunt, former president of Central Normal college and I. U. faculty member, ‘ The remodeling plans provide for utilization for classrooms of the third floor of the former Kingston home that now houses the center, and conversion of a garage into lab ratory space. The changes will double the center's available space.

Car Kills South Bend Boy

SOUTH BEND, Ind, Aug. 6 (vu. P.) ~Five-year-old Frank Barbara

dr. was injured fatally yesterday

by an automobile it a city street crossing. The child sustained » fractured skull. and internal in-

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Appointed Head Jury Studies Story Citizens at New Bellsville Organizing Lion Hunt | ‘Varmint’ Is Spotted Twice in Area;

Of Steel Unit.

George Paul Burks, formerly of

| Rockville, has been promoted to di- | i

vision superintendent of Wast fu naces at the Gary_ works of. the Cai negie ~I1linois§y Steel Corp. N Mr. Burks, afi native Hoosiers and chemistry} graduate of Wa bash college, has been assoclated§ with the steel} plant almost con tinuously for 32 ‘ years, He will Mr. Burks J succeed Walter Scott McNabb, who has retired because of ill health,

Two Teachers Resign ‘At Crawfordsville

CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind, Aug.

ander. Miss Glenna Wiley, physical edu{cation teacher in the high school,

areas and metropolitan areas, he has quit to study for a master's were found aboard

degree. Her place will be filled by

Barbara = Fast, 1047 graduate of to the bottom of Newport harbor

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Edward T. Ferguson, recently

not been replaced

Of Overell Girl

| Heiress Denies Gollum

‘Killed Her Parents

SANTA ANA, Cal, Aug. 6 (U.P), | |~Beulah Louise Overell's own stor

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NASHVILLE, Aug. 6.—Now it's lions again.’ ; In the past few' months Hoosiers have seen everything from disap-

¥{ pearing monsters to super-sonic flying saucers. Folks around New Bells-

|of her parents’ deaths was studied | ville announced today they're organizing a “safari” to track down a rove

§ (today by a jury hearing murder

{charges against her and her fiance. The 20-page statement was read {in court yesterday. by the 18-year-old heiress in her jail cell the day after she an George (Bud) Gollum, 21, were arrested, ~They were charged witly the

nrurder of her wealthy parents, Mr..

[and Mrs. Walter E. Overell. |. In the statement, Miss Chverell denied indignantly that Gollum could havé murdered her parents. She deinied he ever told her that things {would be better for their romance

Indiina has been chosen by the 6. — Two recent resignations from if her parents were dead. foundation for its experiment In|the city school faculty have been! bringing Great Books discussion announced by Supt. Gerald Alex- 'arited,” she ‘said.

“I- was getting everything I “All I. really | wanted was Bud and I was going to get him." { The bodies of Mr. and Mrs, Overell their - yacht

{March 15 after the craft was blasted

by a mysterious explosion,

The statement sald that Miss

the foundation in its campaign to contracted to teach in the city's|Overell and Gollum left the yacht bring “liberal education to everyone grade schools, has resigned due to'at 11 p. m. that night to buy hamwho is interested in it,” Mr, Wil- inability to secure housing. He has burgers

The prosecution has attempted to

It was made

ing “mountain lion."

L. J. Moore of New Bellsville reported the varmint had been spotted

‘twice in that area within the past {week: Once he was picked up by lauto headlights, another time he! | (the lion, that is) was seen in a {blackberry patch in broad daylight.

| Last week Indianapolis’ one-time big-game hunter, Harry McClain, ‘took a run to Nashville and heard about “the - lion,” Mr, McClain, whose latest hunt was for a sheep-

stealing, dog-killing “monster” in

-y - show by medical testimony that the, Overells died before 11°p. m. “Father was in the engine room, tinkering with the motor—fooling with the machinery,” she said. “Mother was in the forward cabin.| She had been talking about making! some coffee.” . She admitted that she had “a few | differences” with her parents but in! general “I guess we got along all! {right.” “They treated me like a child”! she safd. “They never told me our! business.” Both she and Gollum, who made

Boone county said he'd be back later this week to track the.critter down and stuff him fot posterity, ° Mr. McClain didn’t exactly come home with the pelt in the Boone county case, but at least there haven't been any more reports of monsters lurking around there. If he can do that well with New Bellsville's “mountain lion,” folks say, they'll be satisfied.

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marriage plans, Gollum had been living in the Overell home for four days when h& was arrested, Sheriff James Musick testified.

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