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Crushed Body In Cornfield
Truckers Discover Unidentified Victim Near New Castle
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body of an unidentified woman, head: crushed and throat, back and hands slashed, was found in al corn field a short distance from |a lonely “lover's lane” road three
{miles southeast of New Castle!
today. *
there was a pool of blood on the! little used gravel road. He cx-| pressed the opinion that the woman had been wounded in a struggle on the road, possibly in a car, and that she had stumbled into the field where she collapsed and died. { Officers estimated the victim | was between 30 and 35 years old, !five feet’ eight inches in height,
|and weighed about 175 pounds. . |She had brown hair and eyes.
The body was clad in a black {flowered dress. The woman wore a gold wrist watch, but no coat.,
% Autopsy Planned
The body was discovered, on | {the Clay Bavender farm, about | 75 feet from the road, at 9:15 ‘a. m. by Joe Marlowe, 28, and {Robert Lee, 27, both of New |Castle, as they drove along the | |road in a truck. Dr. Ralph Dreyer of Kalghts]
mated the woman had been dead 10 to 12 hours. An autopsy was planned to determine “the cause of death.
Mother Breathes Life Into Baby
Stranger Draws Himself a Drink, Jumps jn Well
- State Police, who joined Henry County authorities in investigating the case, said the woman might have been dragged from | the road to the spot where the |
body was found. - | Two state police technicians!
Doctors Declare Action Saved Tot
A three - month - old baby who “stopped breathing” for five min-
today, : i wy nix’ ung mother who refuséd to give him up for dead. ; Doctors later said the mother’s breathing into the mouth of the fhfant “undoubtedly saved the Hire of “David William Hoekett, 4210 E. Naomi St. The mother, Mrs. Virginia Hockett, 21, was alone at home with her infant son last night when the child began choking.
PRINCETON; Feb. 23 (UP)— Harley Williams was awakened today by someone trying to enter his home near Haubstadt, Ind. He barricaded the door and called
utes !ast night was alive and well ED Geri,
The man, after several minutes of pounding and prying, went to a well and drew himself a drink. Then to the amazement of Mr.
and Mrs. Williams he jumped into] PORTSMOUTH, England, Pep, Butler University Fieldhouse to-| t
the well. » . ~ HE was dead when they pulled
a card in his pocket bearing the name R. T. Farley, 39, Huntington, W. Va., an Army Air Force veteran.
from the state headquarters ™ Indianapolis were among those assighed to the case. { They were State Police De-| /tective John Petro and Frank Benz. .
| ‘Russ Returning
‘Cruiser to U. S. |
2g (UP) = The Russian-manned| United States cruiser Milwaukee, !
‘him out. Gibson County Sheriff |lend-leased to the Red fleet during, Maurice Wood said the man had World War .II, arrived here to-/Central and Warren Central.
day en route to the United States.
| The Milwaukee, transferred to| the Russian navy on April 20,
Physicians believed curdled milk! Sheriff Wood said the dead man |1?44. Was renamed Murmansk by
lodged in his throat, blocking the windpipe. 1 She called her husband, Ralph Hockett, operator .of . Hockett Auto Sales at 4601 E. 10th St, frantically urging him to “hurry! home and do something.” | The father called for an escort, of ‘deputy sheriffs to meet him mn route and the two cars sped tp the Hockett home.
Doctors Cheek
They arrived to find the young mother frantically breathing into! the mouth of the infant, who she said had “stopped breathing.” The imfant was taken to St Francis Hospital where doctors checked him and released him to his. parents,
Today vid was
also carried a bus ticket “from
|Salt Lake City to Huntington.
Handy Tomorrow LOCAL TEMPERATURES
6a m.. 32 10 a. m... 34 Ta m.. 32 11a m.. 85 8a m.. 32 12 (Noon) 37 fa m.. 33 1p. m.. 38
Indianapolis residents will don
raincoats tomorrow with showers
beginning in the. forenoon and lasting most of the day, according to the Weather Bureau. Temperatures will high of ‘56 degrees.
Hazy skies will become cloudy army was warned on its 31st an-
" David was apparently well and happy completely recov-
And the parents had still more good news as doctors prepared to!
daughter, Virginia Ruth, from St. Francis, ’
ered from his brush with death. [Main above freezing. A low of
35 was expected for tonight.
— send —home their 32-year-old Hoosier Dies of Burns |
Evans, 40, died
The child, who suffered an in-
jury at birth, underwent an op- stove.exploded in his home as he
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ELWOOD, Feb. 23 (UP) —Clyde Marshal N. A. Bulganin, last night of | ister of armed forces,
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the Russians. |
{It is being returned to the U, 8.} !in exchange for the Italian cruiser | Duca d'Aosta. |
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Russ Alert Army ‘Against the U. S.'
. Brands America As ‘Aggressor’
By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent
MOSCOW, Feb. 23—The Soviet]
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permanent combat
{planning to unleash a new war. | The warning was issued by: min-| in an order of the day. | The order requested Soviet
today slept while his wife was at Work troops to “indefatigably maintain 488.4. nurse. in Mercy Hospital. . |g. permanent . high .. quality . of, ! TTT" leombat readiness.” 5
This was necessary, Marshal {Bulganin said, because, while the|
{Soviet people engage in peaceful ————— fereative 1abor, “the ruling-circlesiriorsand
{of the United States are waging {a policy of aggression and of unleashing a new war.” The same type of warning was {issued in editorial articles in Moscow's principal newspapers written by leading military men.
| Calls Memory Short
ty newspaper Pravda warned. “The -lessons of the German and Japanese aggressors, who
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haven't taught them anything.| The criminal plans of the newly, |appeared aggressors claiming)
cerns Pages 10-11 World hegemony are doomed to 12-game morning card
|disgraceful failure.” Marsha! Leonid Govorov, writng in the government paper| {igvestia, said international -tension dictates an intensified |strengthening -of the defensive
. other observations. ... Page 14 might of the Soviet Union. - |inations off to a fast start.
Marshal Govorov stated that the Soviet army possesses - “new
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foreign models.” He added that American imperialists, following in the tracks of the 'Giekmans, are “trying to with blitzkreig lightning blows by. means of atom bombs.”
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: , : ’ Photé by Henry KE. Qlesing Jr, Times Staft Photographer. This underpass at the Pennsylvania Railroad -in S. Emerson to drain it. Residents have jgnied the Indiana Conservation Ave. has been filled with water for more than a week. City, coun- Department stock it with fish, also complain of having to dety and the raiiroad have been arguing whose responsibility it is tour to Sherman 'Dr., to get south of Prospect St.
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Steckler States Riders Contribute To Investment Public Service Commission Counselor William E. Steckler issued his opening blast in his battle to prevent ane
|other rate increase by Indian.
He charged that the straphangers had bought more than $4 million worth of assets in their fares contrary to law, ~~ = The new public counselor charged that the utility had built up excess reserves and has used depreciation money to increase its capital structure putting in one cent of capital investment.” lh Mr. Steckler's statement came today as he completed his exam= ination of the utility’s request for an Increase from 10 cents straight cash fare to two for a quarter or a sone increase plan. vn bigs
Cites Higher Costs
The utility has announced it may be forced into receivership unless its rates are increased, as a result of mounting costs. Mr. Steckler, along with Rohe ert E. Jones, his assistant, and Garland G. Skelton, senior ace countant for the Public Service Commission, said the laws of the state make it h questionable for a utility to add to its capital investment from depreciption.
By using depreciation funds, Mr. Steckler charged, the IR had
Monroeville Pushes In Berlin Snatched, Kept Her Passport Go to Chair Calmly
By. DOROTHY WILLIAMS, United Press Staff Correspondent Past Elmhurst | WASHINGTON, Feb, 23 Mildred (Axis Sally) Gillars told a The hurricane began to blow|jury at her treason trial today that “wolves” of hunger ands MICHIGAN CITY, Feb. 23 (UP) over Indianapolis today. poverty which trailed her theater career drove her to work for|—Reobert O. Brown, 37, and Frank First concentration will be oVer the. Nazi radio in Germany, $ Badgley, 50, died In the electric - gg | On the stand in her own defense in the month<long trial, sie chair early today for killing two
also cried out indignantly that an American copsul in Berlin Hammond policemen in 1947.
“snatched” her passport away — = . | “Phe t Indianapoil t At 7 o'clock it will be Sacred ’ wo In apolis men wen Heart and Cathedral. et eda wouldns Truman Plans lio thelr deaths camiy. and At 8-0’clock it will be Lawrence! Fingering a thin. goid chain, ! j silently,
|dabbing her face with a white] > = ik And the big Indianapolis sec- handkerchief and giving stage, tional will be on. : {overtones to her testimony, -the or | ac on
Anybody’s Guess |48-year-old Miss Gillars related [the story of the life from her| They were hopefully ; Begins s 13-Day Stay In Key West, Mar. 6
was pronounced dead eight minutes later. A
talking | American birth to her World War| (gan
upset at Sacred Heart today II broadcasting for Hitler. | but at Cathedral thé Irish were It went through waiting tables] calm and waiting to take this for money to pay for training as| first one in their stride as the an actress, then to one-night —President Truman will fly to denied pulll local scene of the 1949 drama of stands in smail shows, and to Key Kest, Fig. Mar. 6 for a 13- gun. Then he fell
{moral grounds.
silent.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 23 (UP) At the scene of the killings but a . ng the trigger on his
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{increased its valuation to a book figure of mere than $14 million {on ‘which its rate appeal, now |pending before the commission, is (based. re 8 | Mr. Steckler sald the law 18 |very specific about the use of {depreciation money. He contended that It is to he
f Brown was taken into the death used solely for the replacement chamber at 12:04 a. m. and he worn-out existing equipment,
that by converting earnings to & high depreciation fund and thea
few moments before he be-|into new busses and streetcars, his “last walk,” Badgley the public not only runs up the insisted that he was innocegt on valuation on which rates. are He sald he was based, but enhances the book
value of the common stock, Gathers Figures Mr. Bteckler is gathering the
the Indiana High School Basket- Berlin in 1940. There, she said, day vacation, the White House an- Was taken from his cell at 12:14 figures from the accounting de=
ball Tournament was due to open.|a friend called her one night and nounced today. a. m. and pronounced dead at And the game between Warren asked her how she was getting! In Florida, the President will 12:21. Central's tournament happy War- along. .break his holiday routine on Mar. Tod ~ Resul ee ‘Wolves Coming Closer’ 8 to fly to Orlando, Fla., to receive for Place ayring 3 a day | “I said, ‘miserably,’ ” she re- an honorary degree from Rollins © ye ay's Resuln lated. “ ‘The volves are coming College, at Winter Park. a minister and was baptized a AT ALBION [closer every day.’ Mr. Truman will Tedve here Tn Frovestant. Topeka 50, Springfield Twp. 24. As a result, she said she got the flying White House, the DC-6 Blames Brother-in-Law Wolcottville 34, Lima 32. a part-time job at §12 a week Independence, at 7:30 a. m. (Indi-| In his revised version of the
AT AUBURN Br May 5 Me with Radio anapolis Time) on Mar. 6. |siayings, Badgley tried to save ‘ |{Bremen, where she eventually| : ' He said a H fll t to W ngto himself and Brown. an Mar, 19, wos % of his had com-
Churubusco 45, Hamilton 17. [became “mistress of ceremonies” y |by pl . brother-in-law Auburn 52, Butler 43. | approach Station boss “liked at about 2pm 19. landing here mitted the slayings. However, a AYN . 5. R. Strong o AT FT. WAYNE | She said that in the spring of| For the ceremonies at Rollins [sister Mrs. E. R 8 she visited the American College, the Chief Executive will
. : { “untrue.” . { {consiilate where she asked for an fly from Key West to Orlando. He e uy brother, Gerald, visit-
Dim. in. his cell, but his _moth-
Monroeville 43, Elmhurst 33.
cordia 39. whosé name she knew only as campus at Winter Park” Wherd| Mrs. a en Vaughn. She said she told “a the ceremonies will begin in the’ °° °° moved AT FT. WAYNE [Miss Snyder” at. the consulate chapel dt noon. Butale, 1nd. oo —ed sob(South). that she was broadcasting for)
t | | Later Mr. Truman will attend | er room. She had the Germans. TWO YR Iter gall TaRCREOH Vel Ti No aR TET Fry _— she said, she saw Mr. Vaughn honor by Dr. Hamilton Holt, col-| Badgley’'s sisters, Mrs, Strong| personally. lege president. {and Mrs. Jay Mick of Cedar Lake, | | “He just snatched my passport ‘while in Key West, the Presi-|vigitéd Hifi briefly. One of the from me so violently that I knew gent will reside in (be —vom- ast to ‘talk with the two men, {something was wrong,” Miss Gil- mandant’s quarters at the U. 8. was their attorney, Robert Buhlars. said. ‘He just opened a desk Navy submarine base. his favorite ler.of Ft. Wayne; who succeeded drawer and the. passport just vacation spot. in winning four stays of execi-| dropped in and that was that.” | - {tion for them. ! i Asked if up to that time she TRUMAN SETS NEWS TALK The men were convicted of killthe strong. defensive had made any remsrks about the, WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (UP) ing Patrolmen John Gerka and Centra; late President Roosevelt, she __pregident Truman will hold «Donald Cook when the officers hesitated news conference tomorrow at/stopped them as they drove a “Over the radio,” said Chief De- 9:30 a. m. (Indianapolis Time). 'stolen car through a red light.
Harlan 41, Leo 35. {Coesse 41, Woodburn 39
AT GARRETT Angola 57, Metz 47. Fremont 62, Scott Center 29. AT KENDALLVILLE
Kenddllville 47, Shipshewana 29. Avilla 41, Scott 32. |
outfit from Lawrence could be anybody's game. | Play will be continued tomor- y row night, then Friday and Sat- fense Counsel James Laughlin.
“0 he radio, certainl ” * : pend hie hurricane starts to sie coe bowie i ge ‘Family Trouble’ Leads Bo anything propagandistic one way * & . To Push Girl, 5, Into River
Monroeville Wins or the other. I thought you meant
In state sectional play this socially.” “Short is the memory of these morning, Monroeville, the little ee—— ; hr Verses teases nanae Page 5 aggressors,” the Communist Par- Allen County team that went a ‘Scuffle’ Over Girl Child Struggles Way Back to Shore
long way in the 1948 tourney . . . . and scooted through the past sea- Ends . in Shooting. After Being Stoned by Neighbor Lad, 10 son unbeaten, chalked up victory A scuffle which police said was HARRISBURG, Pa. Feb. 23 (UP)—A 10-year-old boy wld “caused by a girl" ended in a Police today he pushed a neighbor girl into the rain-swollen Susquehanna River last night and threw stones at her “because our fam-
Monroeville pushed past FIm- shooting last night. hurst, 43 to 33, in a Ft. Wayne, Delman Lacy, 30, of 879 Roache /lies-don’t get along.” sectional tfit highlighting & slim gt was shot during a struggle The bB-year-old victim, Sharol Zimmerman, fought her way with a man with whom he had @shore through the swift current before she collapsed of shock and At Kendallville, the host team pen drinking in a tavern, near Dead wounds caused by the subdued Shipshewana, 47 to 29, Edgemont. 8t. apd Northwestern tones. for its 19th victory in 21 starts sve [acy was treated and re. Der condition’ at the Harristhis season. } | leased in General Hospital. burg Hospital was “unsatisfacThese games got the second pio 1ater arrested Hardin A. 07), yurses sald she cried reday of the five-day sectional elim-| pn 0 "94 or 1190 Carter St. and peatedly, “Bumpy threw me In
, {charged him with vagrancy. Lacy( "Judge Robert Woodside of the 1940 Champs , Beaten [charged that Forte was the man|pauohin Count t promptly Di estranged wife, Bessie, would . wh d sh auphin County court prompuyi..,joubtedly be questioned about . Last night, 1940 IHSAA titist/¥ho drew a gun and shot himiordered a psychiatric examina-| C000 background.” Hammond was dealt a ~mor- during the encounter. tion ‘of the girl's assailant, Wil- Judge Woodside sald the boy tal blow by Clark, 42 to 39. Then| i liam H. “Bumpy” Wildermuth, fwould be held in the - Dauphin EE rho ine! Whisky Bottle Hits Admits. Intident _|County detention home pending phe ns, om, | . Police Chief Oscar Blough sald the chiatric examination. 42 to 41, to South Bend Central. ‘Wrestling Match Fan “Bumpy” admitted the cident] The. boy told Chief . Blough he In the Gary division, Gary| Not all the fighting was con-|{in “complete detail” and sullenly met. Sharol on his way home Emerson went down, 37 to 32, {0 fined to the wrestling ring at the explained Jour families don’t get from. an errand last night and Gary Wirt and Mann swept over Armory last night. along . . . none-of us... were “hit her on the shoulder sand Tolleston, 39 to 36, Kyle Bryan, 55, of - 527 W. always fussing and fghting . . ./pushed her in the river”
ster told the police chief, “I had] another fight once before with| Sharol'sotder brother, too.” | Judge Woodside said the boy would be given a hearing about} Mar, 7 and he sald the boy's father, Alfred Wildermuth,
ney statistics. roundup ries oneal by a Whikky bottle. Ha was kids.”
Pages 10 and. 11, ‘ treated at General Hospital The thin, poorly claghed young- out.” y!
Bloomington said his statement
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Complete sectional scores, tour- Washington St. was ctruck in the the grownups and the rest of us . He said he “threw rocks atv ‘her and 1 -told her to come on}. * i ,
partment for the reopening of the
|IR's current appeal for an up» Brown had turned to religion ward adjustment in rates, based
probably on a zone fare system. Mr. Steckler this morning cons ferréd with Gov. Henry Schricker on the status of the
and other pending utilities cases,
The IR case is scheduled to be reopened as soon as the state is prepared to oppose the higher rate request. This probably will be within a few weeks, The public counselor sald ine sofar as he could see only $452, 38 was put into the company in its reorganization in 1932, At that time he said the bond holders
$4.685900 at 5 per cent. None of these, he added, have ever been retired.
ciation has been excessive and
had been applied to the extension. ..
of the capital investment without one cent of new risk money have Tig been vested “through the sale of stock. ve Work Either Way” Mr, Steckler will use the ures to oppose the IR appeal for higher rates which he said might give the company a further “opportunity to build up its capital investment” at the expense of riders. The existing allowable rate for return on the accepted valuation is 6.9 per cent. He sald that it was possible that he would ask either a reduction in the valuation to account for the questions able use of depreciation money, or the reduction of the return als lowance from 6.9 to 3 per cent. “It'would work the same either way,” the counsel said.
Drug Store Burglars Get Cigars and Liquor
Burglars who smashed a front window to gain entry to Rabin's Drag Store, 330 N. Senate Ave, early today, stocked up on drink+ ing and smoking materigls, The loot included 20 cartons of 90. 37 pints and six fifths of liquor and a quantity of cigars. REN
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