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Neighbor, Worker Discover Flames

nt MORRISTOWN, Jan. 30 — A Paste soo0eee ec mother and three children burned fo death when. fire destroyed Jana their 1-story farm home, one and Pasta ....... ¢ mwe-balf fies West of Morristown, y before noon today. onized “Yeast Dead were: ox 5, 60'8 ....... QUE J| Mrs. Norma Burteh, about 35. |

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David Burtch, 3. Judy Burtch, 6, who was out-of school today on account of ilifiess.

was working in timber nearby and whose attention was attractod by the crackling of the fire. W. T. Aldridge, & neighbor, saw the home ablaze about the same time, - Whien . they - reached - the| scene. the intdrior of the house] was ‘a roaring furnace. 5 - House Already Destroyed : The Morristown fire depart. ment was called, but the house

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efreshing fter-shave lotion... .

West ‘Side citizens and civic niling toward & $1000 fund to lin 25¢ a lawyer to England to de-|, + Blades, 12's .. find Billy Edwards, Indianapolis Musterole sera, Sliarged with the Ture tank the kids to decide fo make ACNE saecsenees Local Attorney. James Dawson touch

youth’s lawyer if the fund suc-

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LYeS covdesnnne es¢ds. He has agreed to take the three Wall children heard abo Case with no fee except the tragedy and they were deepexpenses, tol 5% School friends of the soldier ly impressed. Just think, they Drops, 2-08. «« and neighbors of Mr. and Mrs. S8id to each other, what it would| Backing Scheme

Noble Edwards, 1006 Sugar Grove|Pe like to have only the clothes Ave, parents of the youth, insti-| YOu had worn to school, no home, |)

the drive after the family no place to learned through newspaper stories children's bicycle, carefully stored) tery ticket : Milk of that their son is under arrest. |in the basement, was burned—a| Ni ‘ . . ‘Magnesia eighbors said ‘they remem- kids were concerned

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Ju : hh > iy 5 . E50 ; pated CHARRED RUINS—The pitiful plight of the Albert Walls survives. family, bucned ‘out of the'r home, caused Ravenswood school chilRonald Earl Loy, 18, who was| dren to start a "shakedown" fund today. ‘Here is alt that was left

Lyons 39: or qiiontion by or of the three Wal Shido’ prize possessions Licycle, “rie manand ana tater aed RAVENSWOOd Pupils Plan Sook $1000 Fur Fund ‘Shakedown’ to Aid Family ) : ~~ Friends of Distressed Wall's Children Begin Collection in Neighborhood Today

I Defend TODAY WILL be the day of the “great shakedown” in the little

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Sympathy Lottery May Bring

Police today expect to arrest] e Indianapolis contact man for] “sympathy-angle” lot-| | During the week tickets have ‘A Nice Boy’ - [tragedy in itself as far as those been circulated in local industrial

They de- plants under the title of “U. 8. the 23-year-old youth as|cided to do something,

"always being a nice boy.” . , a I's As 10-year-old Charley Ward As far as hurting a baby, we in ey John miei School tions have disclaimed any confon’t think ha could do ‘it. He | ast night, his father, Ray Ward, Mection with the lottery.

{7013 Ralston Ave. asked him to i teived no replies to cablegrams| 9 Bomié “chores. taking for details on the murder (Continued on Page 5—Col. 4)

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Filed Complaints With Police Howard. Watts, state adjutant. of the Disabled American Vetforwarded com- | plaints to police. He said, “DAV does not solicit funds in this man-

James C. Herod, state adjutant of Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), said that “similarity of

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Possible 8ti—N of the Ed- : wards ngs of friends [Promised for central Indiana to- Under Indictment ' Elmer Gentry, Muncie, is the |alleged head of the organization|y, There will be little change to- named as circulating the lottery, h the low tickets. Presently he is under in|dictment for keeping a room for panyushkin, the broadcast said. The Hoosier weather was in| pool selling as a result of a re- 5 gimilar protest was sent to Golden Glovers © |contrast to.the northeast section cent church-inspired clamp on Ba | - of the country where a a in Muncie. wave was bearing down, threatH e Tonight ening further shutdowns in vital d The hair-raising: Times- industries where more than 250,-/$1000 prize. A number of other

Legion Golden Gloves tour- |gog already were laid off because prizes in graduated amounts tohament resumes tonight for [of fuel shortage.

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50¢ Sanex 8t. or The Sportsman's Store, PASADENA, Cal, Jan. 30; (UP)—A. wealthy socialite broker's gay parties were investigated today for a clue to the person Who Sr —————— th Right, reserved and. general !killed him with a kitchen knife and a fork. tickets will go on sale at- The body of George T, Judd, 55-year-old widower, was found the N. Pennsylvania St. yesterday in the rambling home overlooking the Rose Bowl. Armory at 6:45 p. m. Judd was clad only in. shorts. Police believed he had been dead Read the news of the all- since Tuesday night. Shateur show on The Times _ His daughter, Mrs, Mary Mikel,

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Seats, Until the close of business, tickets will be avaflable at: Bush-Cal-'s, 136 E. Washington

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28 on Board Plane Missing Over Atlantic

10 U. S. Superforts Join in Search BULLETIN FRANKFURT, Jan. 30 (UP) ~Semi-official reports on the

search for a- missing American

plane said today it had been

found wrecked in the French Alps, that a Flying Fortress engaged in the search crashed and killed 10 crewmen, and

that the wreckage of still another transport was found.

LONDON, Jan. 30 (UP)—Afr Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham, wartime commander of Allied Tactical Air Forces, and 28 other persons were missing today! ‘ {aboard a Trans-Atlantic olane| believed down about 400 miles) east of Bermuda, . |South American Airways nounced. The BSAA, operators of the Tudor transport, sald Coningham was among the 23 passengers and six crewmen plane. It last was . (heard from at 11 p. m: (5 p. m. . |Indianapolis Time) yesterday. “-f-It- was flying to Bermuda from The passenger complement’ was made up of 16 Britons, one Swiss,| two Czechs and four “stateless” persons, according to the records © jof the line. The transport was “piloted by Capt. D. Colby. Marshal Coningham was the only prominent Briton aboard. . | He.commanded the First Tactical] i Air Force in French North Africa in 1943, and the Second Tacti:al Air Force in 1944-45. made Air Marshal in 1946. fv Ten American - Superfortresses| assassinate from Bermuda were shuttling] and Mrs. Ava over the area east of Bermnda,| where the transport was feared! down, the BSAA reported. Numerous ships joined the search, it added.

No sign of the plane had been found this afternoon.

Has Heart Attack Aboard Plane

drama was enacted at|and feared dead tod Municipal Airport to-|old-Jesse Welden when a plane radioed fori A {help to mest the ship, na with a heart attack was aboard. A police squad car and a General Hospital: ambulance were ordered to arrive at the scene within “a few minutes.” | Treatmeht was given to L. D. Richardson on the plane's ar-| {rival. Mr. Richardson is tecre-|tary-treasurer of the Knox Glass Veteran Groups Deny Associates, Inc, Knox, Pa. He was en route here with a pilot in|the compaay plane.

Soviet Accuses U.S. 2d Time -

Recognized . veteran organiza-|

By EDWARD V. ROBERTS United Press Stafl Correspondent

LONDON, Jgn:. 30 — Russia) icharged - today for the second time in 24 hours that the United! States was violating the Italian treaty, this time protesting against the presence of American warships-in Italian waters. The Russian protest, broadcast over Radio Moscow, said calls by American warships at Italian names. in organizations might| ports contradicted terms of the Tedd buyers to believe that’ put: chasing lottery tickets will aid |disabled veterans.” a a2 Police Inspector Leo Troutman said a state charter had been is-| sued to the U. S. Disabled Veter-!, ans with headquarters in Muncie. { No one has a charter in the sta to operate a lottery, however,

| forces.

Protests Official

te political. support. to. the. “Premier be Alcide De Gasperi government, . ‘which enjoys little prestige No Dea among the Italian people.” | The protest was made officially U. 8. Secretary of State George | C, Marshall last Wednesday by| Soviet Ambassador Alexander

Britain. Russia charged yesterday that reactivation of the American Workers are being offered one air base at Mellaha, Tripoli, was ollar weekly tickets with a“top 5 treaty violation.

sondon said there were 12 Amer-| ican warships and two auxiliary Picture to LL. vessels in Italian waters and two! candidate for the party nomination so far. more in the Mediterranean bound for Greek ports.

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GANDHI AND GRANDDAUGHTERS—Mohan

eader, is surrounded by his granddaughters, Mani (left) andhi, at Birla House. Mani was the first to reach Gandhi after he kad been shot.

3 Feare Dead as Flames Destroy V

ST. ALBANS, Vt, Jan. 30 (UP). 1 ay in & $200,000 fire th dopen ‘others’ weed fijured, fives y clad into. sub-zero weather, Xo. All hotel records were lost in the flame

{Trin Derailed: 18 Hurt :

Roy W. Howard Party m Among Uninjured

NORTH PLATTE, N 30 (UP)—The Union Pacific railjroad's City of San Francisco, {east-bound to Chicago, ‘was derailed 28 miles west of here early today, ihjuring at least 18 persons, including Mrs. Letty Jonzales of Indiana Harbgr, Ind. None of the injured

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dian ag A Sri one of India's richest : , and was ‘walking and without a word. slowly along a garden path to- But as he fell he placed one loyee ward a lttle summer pagoda hand to his face in a final gesture the! where it was his custom to deliv- of forgiveness to the assassin.

H. Sweeney listed the. unaccounted for and {- Miss Catherine B retired U.' 8. Customs permanent resident

Mrs, Ethel Holmes, also a

Fred Blake of Plattsburg, N. «Missing Guest Reports =! listed as missing later r

George St. Laurent, owner of| the hotel, escaped- serious injury’ when a hot-air blast hurled him across the front. porch as he UP from the crowds as soon as opened the door of the cocktai] it was realized that Gandhi had the bullet. merely creased his lounge, where the fire started at heen shot,” an obssrver; who scalp. : ‘The cause of the ’ lage remained undetermined.

Fire also swept the inn 50 years

Passengers on the train in-; eluded Roy W. “Howird, “Né . York, president of ‘The Indianapolis Times; Mrs. Howard; Mr.| 280. partly destroying- the 75-| Howard's secretary, Ben Foster; major-league um-| dnd Charles J. Graham,

{room structure, “They were screaming - and jumping from the windows when | there,” said. Chief! : : 8 “A man and a woman he said” they didn’t sound very Ing plunged from the second floor and loud. . More like firecraciers. landed near me. They were lucky. [The woman broke her hip and the {man had a sprained back.” ° Chief Sweeney ight have been a heavy loss of fe If all the guests had been in

Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railway: They were not hurt, 1 Mr. Howard said ‘wreckage was withdrawal of Allied armed strewn all over the landscape. It was the second "time Mr, {Howard had ~ been in a trainlm The broadcast said the visits|Wréck. He was aboard a train) ere “explained by the desire of Which was wrecked near Philahe United States to od

“Mr Gandhi fell back, The| been next thing I -saw was policemen and members of his entourage there: grappling with. a-heavy-set man. ar “1 saw blood on him, presum- sin from thé Tadians. ably from wounds inflicted by the! The assassin: was hustied to their rooms. He said many of protectors of Gandhi” safekeeping while additional po-

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As he made his bid for the nomination at next June's Repub~ lican convention, Mr. Creighton [made it clear that no “deals” had |been ‘made for him to switch to jany other office. He sald he was |interested “only in being gover-

{born in the county back in 1833. three Mr. Creighton got his elemen- n education | {Hindu Mahasava movement. was graduated from Atwend|,,Th% extremists. bave' Tong High School and is a a i [called for - war to ‘the death ry 4 YU graduate] zainst’ the 90 million Moslems of Indiana University. “lof India, now) 1 i He is married to the former the domin fP J. Stoupsd n | Miss Esther Robbins of Warsaw Just a stan, was and ie Te has tour chil ioqeq outside Birla House by of the Evangelical United Breth- 1" group and it was presumed ,ren Church of Atwood. S Assassin was an agent

“My only promise as I enter is contest is to give everything 8ST. MORITZ, Jan. 30 (UP) — I can to the best interests of the Prince Rene of Bourbon Parma state and its people,” Mr, Creighdaughter, ton said. “That's a simple promise Princess Anne, will be married to and I intend it to cover everyformer King Michael of Romania thing within common sense and in style in May and not in a win- possibility of achievement.” ter resort “tourist entertainment” ceremony. The prince said the marriage would take place ‘either in Copen-| hagen, Paris or Villefranche on the lower House that year, been re-elected seven con- | * “I have a home in each of those secutive times, watching the GOP. places, Prince Rene sald, “If the legislative strength grow steadcouple want to settle down and ily from the low ebb of the Memake a home in Villefranche I Nutt administration to an overwill let them have a villa,

Mr. Creighton was first elected to. the State House of Representatives in 1932, one of eight Republicans to make the gr:

IN GOVERNOR RACE-—Ho-bart Creighton, Warsaw, today Prince Rene sald he was re-. He was elected speaker of the annéunced his

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Sect Fangtic Seized By Police as 3 Shots ° Fell ‘The Saint of India’

Prime Minister Nehru Appeals for Calm; Body to Be Burned by Holy River

By JAMES MICHAELS, United Press Staff Correspondent ANEW DELHI Jan. 30—Mohandas K. Gandhi was as- ' [sassinated today and, as if by pre-arrangement, savage Irioting broke out in Bombay.. . . a Mr. Gandhi was shot and killed as he whlked to his eve‘ning devotions by a man who gave the Hindu ‘name of |Ram-Naturam, presumably one of;the Hindu extremists who [have long opposed Mr. Gandhi's efforts to bring peace and \conciliation to the warring camps of Hindus and Moslems. - While ominous reports poured into government offices lof rioting in Bombay Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal . {Nehru spoke by radio to the nation, urging it to resolve “petty differences” and carry out the mission of peace for which Mr. Gandhi gave his life, x! te He announced that in keeping with Mr. Gandhi's wishes; his body would be cremated tomorrow on the banks - |of the Holy River Jumna, a tributary of the Ganges, which flows five miles from Mr. Gandhi's: bier. .

Dies in Half Hour

Pandit Nehru, overcome by grief, all but collapsed +. while addressing a throng. — While police supported him; he

“Dear Bapu is no more. Let us not cry. 3 ~~ Within minutes of the receipt in Bombay of the news of Gandhi's death turmoil erupted in three districts inhabit. ed by Hindu extremists. The reaction was so swift as to raise the possibility that the bullet which felled him) "is evening prayer and brief was designed as the trigger sermons. to release communal attacks, The 78-year-old man, weakened throughout India. Mr. Gandhi died at 5:45 p. m, slowly with the aid of a great (6:15 a. m. Indianapolis Time) about half an hour after he was shot by a man who had mingled aimed a revolver at him and fir with about - a thousand of -Mr. three shots; two -of -them -at-ex« ing a who had. as-| tremely close ran

by his latest fast which ended {only 10 days ago, was hobbling

staff. As he neared the pavilion a man, apparently about 32 years old, stepped from the

customary Three bullets Mr. hoe sil Gandhi's body, one striking him in the chest, one in the upper right thigh and one in the Ademen. lapsed immedia

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» . He spoke no word before he _ |died. A moment before he was POI wee shot he said-—some witnesses be-

. » lieved he was speaking to the | assassin—"you are late.” | The assassin had been standing

FT pl y “hands folded palms together before him n Nn Ia In the Hindu gesture of greeting,

But between his palms he had Med Press {concealed a small caliber revolver y of grief ‘went | With which he shot Mr, Gandhi : three times. . He tried a fourth shot in an attempt at suicide but

{stood only 10.yards a y when Crowd Moans ’ ; the shois were fired, reported Tos[ A great moan ‘arose from the = day in a broadcast by the British crowd as Mr. Gandhi's devotees Broadcasting Company. ~~ [realized “ what had happened, The observer was Robert Stim! Some of the crowd turned sav. | son, BBO correspondent. [agely upon the assassin while

“I heard three or four shots; Others bore Mr. Gandhi's bleed-

y back to Birla House. detachments which had tationgd around Birla House with ‘the ‘@eepening of communal’ violence ' intervened and-managed-to-wrest-the assase

— or oved-in-to-handie-the -sad-and—— angry crowds which streamed to-

0 Switches,’ Says Creighton; Birla House,

Within Birla House there. was

br . " grief and lamentation, Mr, GandIn Entering GOP Governor's Race = fmraarir die House Speaker Is First to Announce - In Opposition to Lt. Gov. James

WARSAW, Jan. 30--Hobart Creighton, wealthy Kosciusko County poultry farmer and speaker of the House of Representatives, U. 8. Naval headquarters in| today entered the race for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. His angouncement was the first opefi challenge in thé GOP Gov. Richard T. James, only other officiall

redted there. Within half an

The 51-year-old legislator is a hour, as his disciples, many of | veteran of World War I. He en- them the high officials of India," listed in the. Air Corps and was watched, Mr. Gandhi's lite ended. serving as ‘a flying cadet at the! Tear Garments war's end in 1918, “17 In New Delhi word of the ase

He still pilots his own plane for sassination spread fast. Crowds businéss and.is expected to add. ston

tolor to his campaign for the women tore t governor nomination by makin it at least partly by plane: He is a native of Kosciusko County and a member of one of! {the county's oldest families. Hin (p01 Thomas Jefferson ; ’ Wright, was the first white child wai ows of Mr. Gandhi's death

d, weeping in the streets and heir garments in 8 Jamentation, - , But in Bombay there was an minous repercussioh —a pos sible forerunner of uncounted es to come, Minutes after

wai received riots erupted In separate areas of Bombay

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Hindu followers in line or

WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 30 whether the extremists would [(UP)~The Federal Communica. Utilize the moment to turn the Commission today con- ‘whole of India into a fury of riot sidered an application for a television permit from Indianapolis) The stene within Birla radio station WIRE, - _ |after Mr. Gandhi had “The FCC also announced ‘that

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