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Assault With Intent?

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Husband in Prison, ‘Something Burst,’ Says Mother in Flower Pot Throwing By EDWIN C. HEINKE THE HOT WIND from the tracks across the street blew a fresh blast of soot and cinders through the door at 1010 Bates St. Mrs. Martha Lookebill bent low over her ironing board and tried not to think. Her heart held only trouble. Frank, her husband, was ‘in prison at Michigan City. Martha Ann, 13, had a rheumatic heart;

Penny, 2, was crippled; Mike, 8, was getting hard of hearing. es squalid rooms were Jagieally

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the children to keep quiet but they kept up their din and the pressure on her temples became unbearable.

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Just so much all Mrs. Lookebill's troubles welled over and she screamed and rushed to the door.

a = = OPPOSITE Mrs, Lookebill's name on the police station blotter is scrawled the charge of assault and battery with intent to murder. Mrs. Lookebill,

, you may remember, is the wom-

an who threw the flower pot at

Mike as he played in the yard, Tuesda;

y afternoon. Her face grim, her eyes filled with tears, Mrs. Lookebill sat on the edge of the bed in which she and Martha Ann and Mike sleep. Penny, her feet in casts, sleeps in a crib.’ There is only a little path through the 9 by 12 bedroom-living room into the 8 by 10 kitchen. “I don’t think life has given Jne a very good de«a! in the past 14 years but I'm not too bitter. I still have hope that some day the sun will shine on my side,” said Mrs. Lookebill. nim MARTHA, 33 now, married Frank Lookebill 14 years ago at Jeffersonville. He was the first féllow she had ever dated and almost immediately, she said, he got into trouble, As Frank went in and dut of jails, climaxed by a two-year ferm two years ago, upon Mrs. Lookebill’s shoulders fell the responsibility of taking care of the children. For 10 years Mrs. Lookebill had worked steady up to last May when. the children became tos {ll for her to be away from them. Since then she has lived on $86 a month from the welfare department for aid to dependent children. “I've kept the children together for 10 long years and I will never give them up,” said Mrs. Lookebill. She said it evenly, without emotion; although her eyes were still wells of tears, » » . “I'M THEIR mother. I suffered to bring them into the world and I intend to raise them myself, Of course I love them. Throw a flower pot at Before God, I didn't even know what I was doing.

to burst, threw that flower pot through the door, I didn’t even see Mike. He happened to be in the way and I picked him up and held him in my arms and soothed him, Then‘it was all over,” Mrs. Lookebill told how she sent for the police herself to take lttle Mike to the hospital. Then the police took her to the station and inside the cell she prayed. “I prayed for Mike and that better for us,”

» . “WHAT DO 1 want most In the world? I would like a place big enough for the four of us. And I would like a job that would pay me enough to keep the children a little better.” Mrs. Lookebill doesn't know what the future holds for her. She knows it can't be much

worse. “Maybe the sun will shine’ on ny side one of Boni days”

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she repeated. She went back to the ironing board to get clothes ready to take to the children, now at the Children’s Guardian Home. - And to await Sept. 2 when she faces a Municipal Court judge on the charge that she tried to kill Mike. ® » ~ AT THE Guardian Home the children are waiting to go back to “Mommie.” “Mommie didn’t throw the pot at Mike,” said Martha Ann.

“I love Mommie,” said Mike.

Girl Hurt, Probe Incoherent Story

Police last night were investi-|

gating the incoherent story of a seriously injured girl in men’s clothes who said she overturned

a stolen car at an East Side intersection. : Margaret Dawson, 21, of 403 W. McCarty St, was found in dazed condition in a field one-half mile frgm the accident scene.. She taken to General Hospital where, her condition was reported -as “serious.” The girl suffered a deep laceration on her right arm and loss of blood. A merchants’ policeman, R, E. Bramlett, Michigan Hotel, told police he noticed the girl in a field in the 900 block of E. Michigan St. He said he questioned her and she snapped: “I've been shot, copper.” Accident Reported Earlier, police received: a report of an accident at Oriental Ave. and St. Clair §t. They found an overturned car with bloodstains Inside. The car was reported owned by Gerald Tyler, R. R. 1, Plainfield. At General Hospital, the girl told police the car had been

istolen. She said there had been

two other passengers but would volunteer no other information. Still undetermined was how the injured girl covered the fiveblock distance between the accident scene and the field in which she was found, Lt. Francis Gootee said she had been arrested several times ‘and Was on probation on a drunken driving charge.

Democrats Hear Fry Will Quit Motor Bureau

: Times State Servies FRENCH LICK, Aug. 27— Democrats. attending the annual editorial meeting here tonight reported that Director Paul Fry of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles would Yesign soon. Mr. Fry, whose home is in Linton, may become executive secretary of the Indiana Liquor Wholesalers Association, a job currently held by Republican George Fate. The report was taken seriously enough that several Democrats{had already were angling for appointMr. Fry's post as BMV

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‘Never Expects to Be’; Suggests Vaughan Quit as Truman Aide © By ROBERT BLOEM Times Stall Writer FRENCH LICK, /Aug. 27— Taking cognizane of revived rumors that he might toss his tamous white hat int the Wing

for the U. 8. Senate, Gov. Schricker declared here tonight that “I am in no sense a candidate and never expect to be.” Speaking at the final meeting of the Indiana Editorial ciation’s annual meeting, the Governor also took a verbal swing at Maj. Gen. Harry H. ughan ting that the President's aid “do the manly thing and resign.” “Things are not smelling too good for the Democrats in Washington,” observed Gov. Schricker, becoming one of the first Democratic governors to speak out about the President's aide. “There is no reason why the President should be embarrassed by a playboy who wants to deal in deep freezers,” the governor

said. ‘Clarifies’ Position Referring to’ reports of his candidacy for the Senate, Gov. Schricker said: “l haven't been conscious of making noises like a candidate, but I do want to clarify the atmosphere here and now. I'm in no sense a candidate and never expect to be. No man has been honored by the State of Indiana more than I, and I am most grateful. I crave only one thing, the confidence of the people, and| I want to have that when I retire from office in 1953.” The Governor said he would welcome the opportunity to, help elect a Pemocratic Senator in Indiana next fall but would not attempt to dictate choice of ‘the candidate. Another speaker heard by the Democrats as they wound up their outing-—after steering a careful course to avoid any apof discord-—<was

Tosenh 'T. Ferguson, state auditor

Ao, devoted the! greater part of his banquet speech to attacks on Sen. Robert A. Taft, the Ohio Republican he hopes Kg ve beat for senator next year. Listen Hoosiers smilingly attributed his emphasis on Ohio to the fact that the speech was prepared in the belief that it would be broadcast by a Cincinnat{ radio station. He crossed the state line in his speech long enough to draw applause from his Hoosier Democrat audience by bouncing a few barbs off Indiana's “juke box senator (Homer E. Capehart).” “I am told,” Mr. Ferguson said, “that Mr. Capehart, in order to solve the problem of inflation, advocated a policy of quick profits and higher prices for his juke box

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Russian Warship Defies Yugoslavia

Steams Up Danube | __ Contrary to to Pact

company. Then on the Senate! ™ floor he sajd the way to control! inflation is by voluntary action! of business leaders. “The voluntary action of busi« ness leader Capehart was to raise the price of his juke boxes $50 jon June 1. The extra $50 per {juke box will probably go a long (way toward paying for those $50,000 Republican barbecues that candidate Capehart will campaign with in 1950.” Few Rough Spots Although National Committeeman Frank McHale, one of the Democrats’ top political “smoothies, was absent from the meeting | for the first time in years, there were few rough spots. State Chairman Ira Haymaker nipped a possible state committee battle over the .handling of Federal job appointments before the scheduled meeting came off, Launching a young Hoosier in the race for the National Young) Democrat presidency was carried] off so smoothly that many Young Democrats at the outing didn’t know it had happened. Operating on what appeared to be a pre-arranged schedule, the state committee and the Young Democrat state organization simultaneously indorsed Jack New, Indianapolis, youthful party re-

(World ¥ rid Report, F Page 27)

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Aug.

ner,” steamed 200 miles up the! Danube through Yugoslav terri-| tory and then back, Yugoslav| officials said tonight. | These officials said both times the ship, which mounted light guns, defied Yugoslav orders to halt, in outright violation of the river code adopted by the Danube states in August, 1948, They said the ship, a monitor, appeared suddenly at Kladovo, on the Romanian frontier, just before dawn Aug. 12.

TRIESTE, Aug. 27 (UP)-0Of-ficial Italian sources said today that Yugoslav troops had occupied the harbor area at Fiume, where the .giant Romsa oil refinery still was burning as the result of an explosion reportedly set by pro-Russian saboteurs Thursday.

PARIS, Aug. 27 (UP) — The Paris newspaper Le Figaro reported in a dispatch from Vienna, | Austria, today that large-scale Romanian and Soviet. troop movements were underway in Romania “mostly toward tise] Yugoslav frontier.” Many officers

search director, as the state's candidate for the National Young Democrat post. |

of 11 wagonloads of corn. since dawn to free the 18-month-o

young: bull. Bince then she had bellowed 12-foot pit below the silo door, Her liberation came soon enough to keep her from bresking the silo-sitting record set by Farmer Bill Mach's cow, Grady, from eating herself to death, and from suffocating. Grady was stuck in Mach's| silo for 93% hours last February in ¥ukon, Okla. Snoopy :got a push to freedom frem twp of Mr. Lampman’s neighbors after” she

Hag besit rapped about 50 nours: Mr. Larman said tha } hat be he. gave Snoopy food and water and put

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Snoopy the Heifer Rescued After 80 Hours in Silo

11 Wagonloads of Corn ‘Float’ Bossy Out; Owner Vows Romance Will Be Resumed

OSCEOLA, Wis., Aug. 27 (UP)—8noopy, the heifer who jumped into a silo to escape romance, “floated” to fretdom tonight on top

Farmer Everett Lampman and his neighbors worked feverishly Wednesday morning, bolting while he led her to a “date” with a

mournfully at the bottom of the res

are reported to have been recalled to the colors. The report. was not as not confirmed.

Id animal. She dived into the silo

tbat Snoopy’'s romance would be umed.

Mr. Lampman began pouring corn into the silo this morning, building up a “platform” to raise Snoopy to the. door. He tried tying Army boots to her hooves so she wouldn't sink into it. He tried putting a muzzle on her so she wouldn't eat herself to death. Panic-stricken, Shoopy kicked off the boots and shook off the muzzle.’ She bawled as the feed poured in. But as soon as the corn , got she

walked to Rog She put her Bighball oh through. The

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Photo by Victor Petersdn, Times Stat! Photographer, GAR Veteran Albert Woolson fook Roy Acuff and his hillbilly band by surprise when he asked for

year-old soldier is surrounded by (left to Fight) Pa Pete Kirby, Dot Swan, Swan and Mr. Acuff, To of a Confederate soldier.

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oS Veers North, dwSweeps Into Georgia

GAR Veteran Entertains Entertainers

Diminishing

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Bring Dangerous Tides; Citrus Loss Heavy

3 Dead, 58 Hurt $60 Million

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moved near Valdosta, Ga. which is just above the Flor-| ida line, and was “curving | slowly to the northeast” at 16 to 18 miles an hour. | Although winds had diminished

from their early 155-mile-an-hour height, their outer

gerous fury along the Florida and Georgia coasts. Along Georgia beaches north of here, the Red Cross- reported

upper

tide; and preparations for imme-

The center of the tiring hurri-

miles west of here after wreck-|

along a broad path up the Florida | Peninsula. The lightship in the mouth of the St. Johns River at Jackson-!| ville was dragging its anchor! under pounding by a 70 miles per| hour wind.

ter Sweet Gum had been sent to! assist the lightship. Despite weather bureau and the

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Advance Guard of Boys. in Blue Arrives for Last Encampment Here

PETERSON

NEWSPAPER reporters are prone :o pull the stops and knock

out a “tearjerker” when there is a subject mellowed with years. i 80 it is with the 83d and last earthly encampment of the Grand {Army of the Republic which opens here today.

lerans themselves.

All the '61-'65 GI's have pushed] {past the century mark. Appar-|

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THE ADVANCE Fuard of the! Boys in Blue rolled into Indian-| {apolis yesterday. They are Com-| mander-in-Chief Theodore A. Penland, who rode the trains for| three days and three nights from Vancouver, Wash., and National Chief of Staff Albert Woolson, Duluth, Minn. Comrade Penland's clear blue eyes sparkled and he laughed heartily when Miss Cora Gillis, national secretary, planted a kiss on his cheek. “Haven't had a sick day in nine years,” he chortled and snappily saluted two 17-year-old Indianapolis national guardsmen who escorted him from the train.

n ” n IT WAS a strange contrast, the 100-year-old veteran and Pfc. Raymond Powell, 1101 Holt Road,

Eighty-four years separate their service to the same government. “I'm hungry,” practically were {the first words Mr. Woolson sald as he arrived for the convention. “Haven't eaten for a long time. When can I get a bowl. of soup, a sandwich and some coffee?” The 102-year-old former drummer boy was accompanied by his 69-year-old son, R. C. Woolson, one of 15 children, The old soldier was in a great convention mood’ and recounted experiences over his meal

EVERYONE stopped eating as Mr. Woolson’s voice boomed out. “I was just a kid when I joined up in '65,” he said, taking a big bite of a ham sandwich. “Had a good ‘reason for going in though. My dad lost a leg at the Battle of Shiloh and he died when it was amputated. “He was a good tighter. ‘Should have been, he was a descendent of John Paul Jones, as good a man as ever sailed a ship,”

LJ » » 2 AS HE chewed the sandwich, his‘ son sald: “Dad will eat anything. He's got his third set of teeth coming in right now. Has three new ones below.” Mr Woolson, a woodturner by trade, has followed no pattern to live his years, He Jigen strong cigars and always is ready to split a bottle of Tr Or take a

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Just about everyone gets nostalgic except the Civil War vet- ——| to $50,000,000.

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27 (UP)—A Russian warship, in/ently they don't feel the weight for breakfast and the officer told “a deliberately provocative man-|0f 100-plus years, for they cer-us we could take the top rail of

any fence we saw for firewood. “Best meal a man could get— coffee and bacon done to a turn ion a willow stick. Course you had to be careful or the bacon would £0 up in smoke. “Got a lot of stories for you youngsters, but you've got to catch me in the mood to talk,” he sald, . = » MR. WOOLSON had stopped to pay his respects to his commander when the pair got an unscheduled floor show from Roy Acuff and his guitar-playing “Smoky Mountain Boys” now playing at the Lyric Theater The troupe swung through one old number when Mr. Woolson sald: “Let me see that geetar,” and he began to strum some of the tunes popular in the days the Union soldiers were on the march. . With a flourish, he handled ft back to a very much surprised Joe Zinkan. “Didn’t know I could ply, did you? Shucks, used to have a minstrel show of my own. Still play the violin and the cornet,” he said. Then he shuffled down the hall of the Claypool Hotel, convention headquarters, humming “Buffalo Gals, Are You Coming ¢ Out Tonight.” » » SCHEDULED TO arrive today are Charles L. Chappel, 102, Long Beach, Cal.; James A. Hard, 108, ~{ Rochester, N. Y.; Robert Barrett, 102, Princeton, Ky., and Joseph Clovese, 105 and the last Negro GAR thember, Pontiac, Mich. Following morning dhurch services, Carl R. Gray, US Veterans Administrator, will open the final encampment. with a memorial ceremony in the Indiana Ballroom at 2:30 p. m. A highlight of their four-day program will be a concert by the United States Marine Band at 8 p. m. on the World War Memorial Plaza.

~ So » - TOMORROW will inaugurate the sale of a commemorative stamp honoring the GAR. A banquet at the Claypool Hotel and a reception by Governor and Mrs, Schricker in the Statehouse will complete the day. The annual parade will be held at 6:30 p. m. Wednesday and the closing campfire at

citrus-growing ridge sections. Estimate Damage It was unofficially estimated that 75 per cent of the grapefruit | crop and 25 per cent of the orange crop was destroyed. Preliminary hurricane damage by cities: West Palm Beach, $4,324, 800, Palm Beach, $2,000,000 Eastern Lake Okeechobee, $1500,000. Ft. Pierce, (Citrus), $2,000,000. Arcadia, (fire), $500,000, Barton, $100,000. Central Florida citrus belt, up Scores of stricken communities still have not assessed their damage or repaired communications to enable a check. Thirty-eight private and commercial airplanes were wrecked or damaged when the storm col-

reaches) whipped seaboard tides to a dan-| lsavage hurricane to strike the

cane passed little more than 65

The Coast Guard said the Cut}

Cross officials the storm had killed three persons and injured easy 58. It had caused an estimated $6,000,000 damage in Palm Beach io the vandalism. on the Gold Coast and] giruck by & 1 untold crop damage in the wind Ft. Plerce,

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Aug. 27 (UP)—A subdued hurricane—but one still plenty tricky despite its loss of force—marched into Georgia tonight after stunning Florids *

The Miami weather bureau reported in a 10 p, m. (In= dianapolis Time) advisory that the storm’s cepter had

|1apsed two hangars at West Palm Beach. Hardest hit of the Gold Coast {communities werd West Palm {Beach and the fishing town of Stuart, 40 miles north. Stuart was battered from end to end.

‘Most Savage’ Old timers said it was the most

| Florida Gold coast. U. 8. Army engineers backed up the stdtement, They said the storm hit Lake Okechobee even harder than

waves up to sea-wall heights|, 1923 plow that killed 1800 per although the Atlantic was at low! qo

An efficient warning system

diate evacuation got underway, |was ‘credited with saving many 65 Miles From Jacksonville

lives, The Mississippi-Louisiana coast, heavily damaged’ in a 1947 hursi{cane that roughly followed the ¢

ing buildings, knocking out com-| path of this one, apparently was munications and damaging crops safe today.

Armed national guardsmen pa|trolled streets of Palm Bedch and West Palm Beach to prevent looters from scooping wares from {broken show windows, The hard-hit playgrounds of the wealthy was a scene of wreckage and confusion after a two-hour {battering by the storm. Looters appeared in the storm's wake be«

vigilance of thel sre the winds subsided. Fashion

and shops — their plate windows shattered — made pickings, but the show of

armed force soon, brought a stop

ry

River, was a shambles. Twelve freight cars were blown off the tracks, countless trailers were jup-ended and hundreds of palm trees had snapped in twe. Many communities were still isolated today, their communications lines severed and roads lead~ ing to them blockaded by spline tered trees and cave-ins. Lake Dikes Hold

Many a man living on the shores ‘of Lake Okechobee in south-central Florida voiced a prayer of thankfulness that the {dikes held. They had been erected by Army engineers after a 1928 disaster that killed 1800, persons when winds picked up waters of the lake and dumped them over the levees and onto the helpless popue lation.

On Inside Pages

Hunt denies seeking Vaughan's favors. +..c...ccovisveveees Page 3

Chicken Loop neighbors ery for

General news and fontures. casaes

» Butler co-eds plan rush week. vo Counter-Spy and Katy AtRIME: + o0ei0resiress Page 13 Fur fashions by Louise Fletcher, ..c.vivveivee Page 20 Society, women’s news, clubs, gardening; food, teen talk, Pages 14 to 24

» ” » Mexican labor harvests state crops. . . . Neighbors shocked by poison case. ..... « Page 25 Editorials, politics, movies, ra~ dio. Pages 26 to 36

» n n Indians lose, 3-2; Yanks drop Cleveland; Red Sox BARES EET ARS ss Page First complete county and city high school football schedules. Page Schoendienst takes no chances, misses glory of triple play unassisted, Page Sports, Pages 37-40; Business, Page 41; classified advertising; Pages 42-47. MN .

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Local Weather

Clouds bearing rain will spread over most of Indiana today, the weatherman said. Local showers or thunderstorms are forecast, Top temperatures will range between 82 and 87 degrees. Marion County temperatures will prob-

Pollen Count ......245 per cu. yd. ably climb to a high of 86, foresald.

casters i - At the Weir Cook Alrport weather station rainfall measurinches recorded

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