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Photes hy Bob Wallace, Times Staff Photographer, 4800 Block Has 22 Children So He'd Better Have a Bulging Pack ;

SANTA CLAUS and his helpers are going to be in for a busy night in the 4800 block Farrington Ave. on Christ-

! mas Eve.

The merry old gentleman will have 17 homes to stop by on his rounds. And he'll need quite a bit extra in that pack he carries.

all of them seven years of age and under. The boys far outnumber the girls—16 to six. And of these six young ladies there is a set of twins.

have their hands full with the remaining 18 during the day.

thorough workout.

x ® » THE FAMILIES and their children are Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cain and son, Tommy; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hibbert and son, Michael; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Williams, daughter Stephanie and son, Gregg; Mr. and Mrs. Walter Weyland and son, Nicky; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Widner and sons Tommy, Bobby and Jimmy; Mr. and Mrs. Harold

sons Ronnie, Tommy and Larry; Mr. and Mrs. Norman Brand; Mr. and Mrs. Louis Layton; Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Sullivan, daughter Margot and son, Michael; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Perkins and daughter Sheryl; Mr. and Mrs. Robert

Mrs. Tim McMahon and son, Timmy; Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Curry and son, Robert; Mr. and Mrs. Francis McConahay and son, Michael; Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Lark

Phillippe and son, Ned.

Uses of Lie Detector Dismay Its Inventor

2 By DONNA MIKELS THE INVENTOR of the lie detector says he's misunderstood, Dr. John A. Larson, superintendent of Longcliff Hospital at Logansport who developed the first mechanical device to record cardiac and respiratory changes of a person undergoing interrogation; is dismayed by attempts to use lie deétector results in court or in what he calls “private exploitation.”

fessed the same crime and where one man is sentenced to die on the strength of a now questionable confession best illustrates the weakness of de-

per se and to join a movement to improve and standardize police ‘investigative methods, Dr. Larson is serving as Co-Organ-fzer of an Institute of Police Psychiatry and Criminology at Indiana University. ” » >

DR. LARSON and Don L.

Detection ” » Kooken, chairman of the L U.. Lo. hing x at eth police administration depart- detector is no better than the

ment, are working together.

a tho psychology and psychiatry. Yon of Jia uventiva. L early experiments as a member

The majority of the fathers in the block are ex-GI's.

In this two-year-old block south of E. Washington | St. and West of S. Emerson Ave. there are 22 children— |

‘The Lord Was Good'—

Pastor To Mark Golden Wedding Anniversary

For Busy

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Relatives, Friends To Honor Couple

By LARRY STILLERMAN THE TALL, white-haired man put. down the Good Book and sighed. He brushed the sleeves of his

| new dark blue suit and thought

Only four of the children are in school. The mothers |

to himself; “The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those

| that hope in his mercy .. .”

He nodded knowingly as he

and his wife prepared to cele-

Wash day is everyday. The clothes lines get a |

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brate their golden wedding on this Thanksgiving week-end. Inside the big, two-story white-framed house snuggling

‘ comfortably on 7 Eastern Ave,

the rooms were filled with the sweet smells of autumn flowers and chairs were all set in a row. Soon the children and grandchildren would come and by 2 p.m. today the house ‘would bulge with friends, neighbors

| and brethren of the Friendly

Melloh and son, Tony; Mr. and Mrs. Harry Foster and |

Church of the Nazarene, They would toast the Rev, and Mrs. Joseph H. Fowler with words of congratulations as they observed their 50th wedding

| anniversary.

Gebhart and twin daughters, Karen and Carol; Mr. and |

and daughter Ann Elizabeth, and Mr. and Mrs. James D. |

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The well-wishers would pay tribute to a man and his wife who in the years of their marriage and before spread scriptural holiness as Intoned upon them by tne Nazarene faith. “Yes, the Lord was good to us and we answered his callings,” Mrs, Fowler said. Although he retired as a minister In ‘1946, the Rev. Mr. Fowler remains active in functions of the church he fo nded and helped construct at Ray St. and Holmes Ave. v r r THE PASTOR t-avelad the Evangelical field before he and Mrs. Fowler were married on Nov. 28, 1809, in Louisville, Ky. His missions took che young couple from Wiorida to Minne-

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The sons and daughters help Mom and Dad Fowler celebrate their golden wedding anniversary today. They are (sitting, left to right) William, Emmet, Rev. Fowler, Mrs. Fowler, Mrs, Ira Fulton, Albert; (standing) George, Joseph, Robert and David.

Mrs. Fowler settled on Indianapolis’ East Side they had five boys and one girl. Three other boys were born here. To supplement meager church earnings, the Rev, Fowler established a shoe repair store at 2710 E. Washington 8t., where each of the boys learned the trade and operated the business while their father preached.

The Rev. Mr. Fowler was ordained an elder in the church in 1926. Two years later he obtained his first church pulpit at Flackville, but his fe urged him to 2arry on church field work in Indianapolis,

Despite the depression, the Rev. Fowler pitched a tent at Ray St. and Holmes Ave. and brought his teachings to Nazarene followers, This was In 1932, In 1939, the Rev. Fowler, with the urgings and the savings of 17 faithful, launched construction of the white-framed church on the tent site. Everyone helped. Sons, friends, neighbors and brethren. The church stands today as a monument to his unfettered zeal as a missionary. ” » ”

IN ALL these years, besides

her aid in missionary work,

Mrs. Fowler reared her nine children to the outstanding citizens they are today here and in Illinois. The largest family group to be graduated from Public School 3, 23 N. Rural St, each of the children is a leader in his own trade. Yet only two are high school graduates. Emmet G. Fowler, the eldest, is the third party of Bevington, Taggart & Fowler, consulting engineers. A graduate of Tech High Bchool and University of Kentucky, Mr. Fowler is also violinist in the Indianapolis Philharmonic Orchestra. Of his two sons, Jack 1s mar-

Youth Gets Bac Break From Justice

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By PHILIP F. CLIFFORD HOOSIER justice is tougher

| on kids than it is on adults,

For a youngster there is no room in the law for half-m.as-ures. His only hope for escape, if

by death or life imprisonment,

is to be found not guilty by a

a Morgan County jury for his

IN ONE section of the juvenile laws, state legislators wrote into the books a paragraph which took from criminal court juries the right to return a verdict of guilty in a lesser degree In cases of children charged with capital offenses. . Should an adult, however, be tries under similar or even identical circumstances, he has numerous avenues of escape. If for instance, a man should be indicted and tried for mur der in the first degree, evidence and extenuating circumstances permitting, the trial judge may instruct the jury to return a

verdict of guilty in a lesser de-

gree, In still another section of the law, a youth charged with a felony stands in a dangerous spot resembling double

boy charged with armed robbery. \ After witnesses had\ been heard, evidence presented‘and the case ready to be decided, the juvenile court judge felt the circumstances too. grave and the permissable punishment insufficient for the crime, so ordered the youth held for action of the criminal court. Thus, with the evidence and testimony already written into the records of the lower court and available for use in the

criminal court, the boy went to

trial with two strikes on him. . ». r BUT HIS older “brother,” who might be similarly charged, is wel protected by laws, Writs

make it illegal for the state and to place him in similar » once the jury or a has been

junior “bad man” has one avenue of possible escape from extreme punishment, in a musty old law enacted back in 1867. This law empowers a grand jury to recommend to a criminal court judge the commitment of a youth under 16 years to the Boys School, if they deem him “a suitable person” for possible rehabilitation. A commisson appointed by the governor now is making a thor ough study of. the state's criminal laws, “The purpose of the study Chief Deputy Prosecutor Robert L, Carrico said, “is to bring about the eventual recodification of all the existing criminal statutes. At the same time,” he said, “we hope to get the next + of ‘legislature ‘to exfrom the books a lot silly, out-dated laws in our

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State’s One-Two Punch

ried and the only descendant of the Rev. Fowler who is studying for the ministry. He is the only grandchild who will not be here today to participate in the anniversary celebration. Jack is a student at the Nazarene College in Kankakee, Ill. Seventeen-year-old Bruce is concert-master of the Warren Central High School orchestra and active In Teen Canteen musical functions here. The second son, William R. Fowler, still operates the family shoe repair shop in E. Washington St. He and the third son, George, have expanded the business to a second shop in 1514 N. Pennsylvania St. Neither of the brothers have children. George from the Nazarene chur¢h and today is chairman of the board of trustees of the Broadway Baptist Church, MM » . THE FOURTH son, Robert L. Fowler, is president and treasurer, of the Marion -County Beverage Distributorsy Ine. As a young man he played amateur and semi-professional football in the county. He once sang in a quartet which featured Movie Actor Dick Powell here with Charlie Davis’ band, Robert said. Robert is the father of Busan Claire, 9, and the proud owner of the only Cadillac in the family. The fifth child was Mary Fowler, now Mrs. Ira Fulton and mother of two boys, Robert, who is married, and Arthur, Mrs. Fulton, active in church and civic work, is treasurer of Matinee Musicale. Joseph, the sixth child, is a salesman for Brother Robert's firm and is the father of Mary Jo, 5, Dorothy Lucille, 3, and Alice Love, 23 months, First of three Hoosler-born sons, Albert is a route super-

-visor for the Colonial Bread Co,

David, who is studying i estate at Butler at nights, is the eighth child. He is an ace countant with the Texas Co, distributors of Texaco gasoline products here, He has three sons, who will help the grandparents observe today's golden wedding fete, They are David, 8, Milton, 5 and Wendell, 22 months. The ninth and youngest child,

paymaster of the H. K. son Construction Co. He stepson, Ronnie 10.

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“We have a good family and.

I'm proud of them all,” the Rev, Fowler smiled. “Only wish I could do my oldest brother William does today,” he sighed.

igh “William's still preaching the gospel at Corydon,” the Rev, Fowler said. “He's 84.” “I'm only 78."

Paul Fowler ...e | from Winois today for wedding anniversary fete of his parents,

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Beating No. 1 Killer

Less Than 1000 Hoosier Tuberculosis Deaths

Last Year; Expect Under 850 for 1949

Gradually, Indiana is lowering the death toll of tuberculosis,

the number one communicable disease “killer” in the state, '

X-rays and a widespread publicity campaign—to battle the dreaded

disease,

Bo far, the campaign bas worked. ‘For the

fcal history, Indiana last year had less than 1000 deaths from TB, » r » DR. MERLE BUNDY, chief TB control officer in the state, sald he expected that the disease would claim less than lives this year. {

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