Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 March 1950 — Page 1

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"CLOSED," reads the big sign at W. Washington St. ond White River. The sign means that

te long last - ‘Indianapolis’ "main

drag" westward is going to get a

new surfacing. The street has

source of constant complaints as one of the roughest i in the city.

Workers move a toogions = cable on W. Washington St. itperatord fo a repaving proje et

"They are (left to right] Thomas

Reed, 3130 N. Capit

Ave., Louis Burnell, Joliet, Ind., and Del

Fisher, Joliet. Westbound light traffic has been routed over White River Pkwy. to 10th St. to High Svat Rd; during the paving. Truck traffic has been routed over West St. to Kentucky Ave. to

Mrs. Madsen Gets JR

15-Year Term

Guilty of Slaying Air Force Husband

- FRANKFURT, Germany, Mar.!

18 (UP)—A U. 8. court found|3¥

Mrs. Yvette Madsen, 22, of Brook-

lyn guilty today of murdering ="

her Air Force husband and sen-

tenced her to serve 15 years in| i#

prison.

The beautiful black -haired|}

young widow stood pale and trembling as the presiding judge of the three-man high commission

temporary insanity. The tall, striking brunet shot Lt. Andrew Madsen last Oct. 20. A short time earlier she had flounced out of a drinking party after slapping the face of -the host because he twitted her about her Brooklyn accent. ‘Let's Go Home’ : According to the testimony at

her trial, Lt- Madsen only laughed .

when she said “let's go home.” The court . ruled that Mrs. Madsen planned and intended to

fact kill him, and that she was sane at the time.

Raleigh, N. C.,, said in reading;® the verdict, “ Taking that into consideration, and the fact that the German law under which she was tried provides for mercy in cases where the -defendant “suffered from diminished will power,” the court gave her much less than the maximum sentence of life imprisonment. Led From Courtroom After the brief proceedings, Mrs, Madsen was led from the

father, a Brooklyn carpenter. She was taken to an office in the court buildingiwhere, according to Mr. Gower, she sat for a time in “dumb, stunned, numb and quiet silence” and finally

‘cried: “Why don’t I dite “now, Mr, Gower?” After sentence was pronounced, Mrs. Madsen sank slowly back into: her-chair and said in a low voice: “Will they let me see my babies

Nancy, 18 months, were

to the United States last Novam- (sions,

paved from Little Eagle Creek to

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as workers prepare for the resurfacing job. The street is to be re-

N. Elder St.

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MICHIGAN CITY, Mar. 18 ( number “11148” stenciled across

ranted Parole,

Prepares to Leave Prison

ux Klan Leader

To Live With Daughter in Oklahoma

UP)—A paunchy convict with the his overalls packed his few be-

longings today and prepared to leave the prison cell that has been

his home. for a quarter of a century...

the Indigna Ku Klux Klan, was after he was found guilty of murdering - Madge Oberholtzer, 28; a pretty state employee, ini a vicious! attack. ' Stephenson's parole had been expected after Gov. Henry F. Schricker two weeks ago commuted Stephenson's life sentence to time-served-to-life. It was understood that Stephenson would go to live with his daughter in Tulsa, Okla., where a job is waiting for him. The graying little convict stood meekly before the four-man board yesterday to plead for release, a different man from the bull-

proclaimed to Klan audiences that “I am the law in Indiana.” “Kidnaped the Girl Stephenson was found guilty after Miss Oberholtzer died at her Indianapolis home from ininflicted by Stephenson |during the attack aboard a train between Indianapolis and Hammond, Ind. Stephenson and three of his Klan bodyguards had kidnaped the girl and taken her aboard the

After leaving the train in Hamthe party went to a hotel.

voiced orator of the 1920's who|'

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paroled yesterday—just 25 years|

Truman Target a In Key West Battle of Bulge

KEY WEST, Fla., Mar. 18 (UP) —"A new Battle of the Bulge| raged here today—a fight to hold down the august waistline of the President of the United States. The combatants were Brig. Gen. Wallace Graham, White House physician and guardian of the presidential girth, and the Filipino mess stewards of the Navy who do Mr. Truman's cooking. Gen. Graham wanted the President, who weighs 175 pounds, to slim down, The Filipino cooks wanted him to eat well and consequently used a lot of butter with its high caloric count in their cuisine. .

of tJ Ld » RATHER than crack down on the cooks, Gen. Graham employed flanking strategy by encouraging the chief executive to exercise in the sun. The doctor gained a slight advantage during the President’s sea cruise down weather was so rough that Mr, Truman did not eat for more than a day and consequently lost pounds;

Radio Reception Fair oFAsHINGTOR, iia Mar.

‘conditions,

listening adios ’ ;|L. Wallace, Toronto, Ontario,

through Monday and The prediction would have been Sxotpt for 3a outside pos-

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Court Hears Charges of

Watts Attack

Trucker Attempted to Assault Her in Home,

Housewife Says

By DONNA MIKELS Times Staff Writer COLUMBUS, Mar. 18 — The murder trial of Robert Austin Watts was in recess today, scheduled to resume Monday. The recess came after-a dramapacked day yesterday, climaxed by the testimony of one of the state's star witnesses, Mrs. Harriett Stout, Indianapolis. Her testimony concerning Watts’ "attempted attack on her the same day Mrs. Lois Burney was slain in what the state charges was a similar rape attempt by Watts, was introduced over defense objections. Defense attorneys maintained it was another matter. But Judge George W. Long ruled, she might testify. ;

Weceg Howe The trim blond told, in a soft but firm voice, of looking up from a telephone conversation the day

{of Nov, 12, 1947 and seeing Watts

standing at the door of her home, 7910 College Ave, She said she interrupted her conversation to answer the door and that Watts told her he had a load of asphalt for her drive. Mrs. Stout said she told him he had the wrong house but that he insisted and asked if he might use the phone. “I told him no because I was using it and returned to the phone. When I returned he was still at the door and insisted on using the phone, I allowed him to come in.” Mrs. Stout said she went into another room. She said she heard the" sound of dialing and some indistinguishable words. Later, she said, Watts told her he had con ed her home was the correct address, She said he asked her to write his boss a note refusing the load “So I won't get into trouble.”

‘Now Wait a Minute’

“I told him it was silly but 1 would do it,” Mrs. Stout said. “As I bent down he put his hang over

|my mouth, . .)”

It*was here that Watts started] to leap from his chair muttering, “No, now wait a minute.” There was a jumble of confusion as his attorneys quieted him. Later a recess was called at defense request and Watts was taken into a private room for a short time, after which trial was resumed. Mrs. Stout said Watts dragged her to the kitchen where he picked up a butcher knife, Then she said, he dragged her to the bedroom and told her to disrobe. Women Voters She said she attempted to reason with him but failed until she mentioned - she was expecting

twomen-for-a-League of “Women

Voters meeting shortly. It was then he allowed her to go to the kitchen to lock the doors. “As I got to the door instead of locking it I pushed the handle and ran out,” she related. “He grabbed me, we struggled down the steps. He held me so hard I was. afraid I was going. to bel.

D.” C. Stephenson, 56, the once all-powerful Grand ‘Dragon of | pulled back: I bit him on the fin-

gér. . .and got free.” She testified she ran unclad to College Ave. where a passing

--| motorist stopped, gave her - his. ..-

coat and drove her to the home of ‘a.neighbor, who had séen her flee from. the house. Motorist Tony Lysaght, 5945 Crittenden Ave., corroborated her testimony. —ldentified- Jacket Mrs. Stout identified a brown leather jacket with’ Watts’ name .stenciled across it as the one he dropped in her bedroom and a butcher knife as the one with which he thréatened her. Cross-examination was brief, The defense took her over cer-

_|tain portions of her testimony. The defense did not attempt towalked down the stairs alone. establish a previous acquaintance There was .a policeman in front] then had been between Mrs. Stout and the de-{of him and one behind but they fendant. This was the major de-|kept their distance. Even a Genfirst/eral Ambulance doctor kept a trial, in which he was convicted |respectful distance -as the big, gaunt man climbed into the amThe sentence was later reversed |bulance,

fense strategy at Watts’ and sentenced to die.

‘by the Supreme Court, which granted Watts a new trial on

stitutiohal rights.

in the vicinity of both the Stout Burney homes. They testified

the murder day, pretending to have 8 1084 of sinders oF daphalt deliver,

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Jerry Excited About Coming Back Home

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Set for Net

BY MRS. RUBY DUNAWAY (Jerry's Mother)

boy, Jerry, in all America.

ing about his new clothes. bought him some new shirts today and will get pants this afternoon. I have to measure him first—Jerry has gained su much I hardly knew what size to get. Doctors tells us we can leave for Indianapolis by Wednesday— maybe before. They are tapering off on Jerry's ACTH treatments. His bone marrow tests show the new wonder drug almost has his leukemia whipped. It will come back, they say, but priority is being arranged for Jerry to get ACTH treatments when he needs them. I am greatly encouraged and happy that my Jerry will. return to Indianapolis as any other Bota boy.

I AM so grateful to everybody. It is so wonderful. Jerry is —and| looking forward to seeing his Dad.

(Jerry Dunaway, 7-year-old Indianapolis leukemia ~ victim, “was flown to New York by The Times on Feb, 2 for treatment with the new wonder drug, ACTH. Doc-

had been arrested but was almost certain to recur. Jerry gained from a wasted 42 pounds to more than 60 while under treatment.)

2 Dead, 9 Missing In Ship Collision HALIFAX, N, 8,, Mar. 18 (UP) —The trawler Gertrude Acosta sank early today in a collision with the 5000-ton Canadian freighter Island Connector. Two of her crew were known dead, about nine, including the

were rescued. The collision occurred just outside Halifax ‘harbor in - clear weather shortly before dawn.

NEW YORK, Mar. 18—My little is the happiest boy

We told him today he will be allowed to come home next week.

He was all excited this morn1 ‘Greatest’ Show

40th state high school basketball championship in Butler's cavern-| ous Fieldhouse this afternoon.

and New Albany's lean, towering ler's polished quadrangle wearing] the badge of distinction.

were to battle Marion's dangerous ‘Giants inthe first-game—of thé his farm home near here.

tors said today the leukemia virus sharp-shooting Lafayette Jeffer-

skipper, were missing, and six].

Title Clash

Fieldhouse Sold Out For Hoosierland's

By JIMMIE ANGELOPOLOUS Madison, Marion, New Albany and Jefferson were hoping to realize their most cherished schoolboy ambitions to-

day. Hoosierdom’s Big Four quartet, which has accomplished to date what 762 other Indiana prep contingents failed to do, i primed to battle for the coveted

Madison's title - starved Cubs

Bulldogs were stepping onto But-

: The Cubs, with a 24-2 record,

state finals tournament at 1 p. m. New Albany, seeking its first state title ini history, faced a

son team whose rich title inheritance and masterful leader make it the No. 1 “People’s Choice” for the THSAA crown, ° New Albany and Lafayette scrap at 2:15 p.m. and the winners of both afternoon skirmishes move into the titular fray at 8:15 p.m. All the ingredients of another dramatic finish to the month-long quest for the IHSAA's top athletic achievement loom before the overflowing crowd of some 14,943 fans expected to swarm into the Fieldhouse.

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feaviest Snow ight

Expect 4-Inch Blankets

Dip to 25 Degrees In New Cold Blast

Hazardous Driving D

said today.

down to 25 as the fresh, win

Billy Brown Dies

Rites Being Planned For Ex-Legion Chief

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Times State Service BLOOMINGTON, Mar. 18—William E. (Billy) Brown, Indiana . of the American Le-! gion 1944-45, died today in Bloomington Hospital. He was 54. Mr. Brown was stricken with a cerebral hemorrhage Mar, 10 in

Besides his Legion activities, Mr. Brown managed and owned an auto sales agency in Bloomington for several years. He ‘sold out to Graham Motor Sales five months ago. He was a member of the Indiana World War Memorial Commission and a past president of the Ford Dealers’ Association of Indiana. In addition to his membership ifn the Scottish Rite, Mr. Brown belonged to Burton Woolery Legion Post in Bloomington, was

ve in Southern

Part of State; Warmer Slated Tomorrow The winter's heaviest snowfall possibly will blanket In. dianapolis late tonight and tomorrow, the Weather Bureau

Freezing temperatures tonight will plunge the mercury, |

try cold wave covers Indian.

apolis and most of the state with up to an estimated four

inches of snow. A heavy accumulation of snow: is expected in central or

“Inorthern Indiana, as well as

central and northeastern Illinois, LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6am... 25 10am... 2 7am... 27 11am... 20 8a. m.,. 28 12 (Noon) 31 fam... 29 1pm... 3L'

Heaviest fall this winter measured two inches on Feb. 25, but indications were that weather conditions developing over the

southern plains Midwest late this afternoon. Expect Hazardous Driving In southern Indiana, bad

hazardous driving to highways from snow becoming mixed with rain or sleet,

will reach only 34 tomofrow. The mercury will rise to between 24 and 28 in northern Indiana, Hone sier counties can expect temperas« tures down to as low as 18 north and 25 south tonight. 3 Heaviest snow ever to cover Indianapolis was 12 inches in March, 1906. Recent heavy snows falls were in January, 1945, and March, 1947, when more than nine inches was measured.

past president of Bloomington Rotary Club, and was a member of the Masonic Lodge.

Born In Bloomington

resident here.

auto business, he devoted his time to cattle breeding on his three farms which totaled about 1000 acres.

While Mr. Brown was Indiana

2 Injured; Loss ~-Put--at-$250,000 STATESBORO, Ga., Mar. 18 (UP)—An explosion and fire demolished or damaged every building in a 350-foot block of downtown Statesboro today. Two persons were hurt, The blast, which resulted in estimated damages of $250,000,

A native of Bloomington, the former commander was a lfelong/uncommon, officials said.

After his retirement from the

Weather Bureau officials said moisture for the oncoming snow was being carried out of Texas, where a low pressure area exists, Heavy snows in March are not too

Save All 40 Lost

Department commander of the Legion, .a record membership figure was established for the| Second time. The first record was made when he served as state membership chairman in 1944.

The former commander was active in Legion movements which

won establishment of the State

Veterans Affairs Commission and appropriations for the new Legion national headquarters building to be dedicated in July.

Organized ‘Cheer’ Drive

In Navy Ship Blast

Survivors Adrift in “Pacific Seven Days PEARL HARBOR, Hawail, Mar. 18 (UP)—The U. 8. Navy rescue today all 40 crew meme bers of the explosion-torn Navy net tender USS Elder. 0

The ship had drifted helplessly for seven days on the vast Pa-

{cific Ocean, Twenty-six men were picked. up...

furniture store worker struck a match that ignited fumes. of escaping gas in the building. Kenneth Womack was injured by fallen. timbers at the rear of the furniture store. Emit Anderson,..another furniture store employee, was in less serious condition. Mr. Womack said, “I struck a match, That's the last thing. I remember clearly before that awful noise.”

Giant Leper’

“Stand bast that man!”

Stand back!

anapolis “policemen moved with

ords show “approximately six feet four.” His weight was recorded at 220 when police took a long view of the scales, well away from the prisoner. ‘Victim’ of Leprosy

The tall, long-haired man

The word was leprosy. Never before in the history of

grounds that failure to arraign the Indianapolis Police Departhim immediately after his arrest/ment had they had to’ contend constituted violation of his con-|with a leper.

John G. C. Killeen, 44, who

Other witnesses yesterday in-|says his home is Pittsburgh, Pa., cluded several women who lived|was arrested at dawn today as

he walked in the 500 block of W. Washington St. Tells Interesting Story He told a straighttoward, almost believable tale,” to Sgt. Clinton’ Auter, arresting officer. “I've got leprosy,” he said. “I

Police at Safe Distance

‘No_Disease, Nothing Contagious’ Declare [ot Srmneemens, te to tae]

~ Hospital Doctors; Agree He Needs Hair Cut By HEZE CLARK _

. A tall, gaunt man with shoulder-length hair stood in the center of-the-repm-in-the-Police-ldentification-Bureau.- Big, strong-Indi-|

They didn’t measure him—they didn’t get that close.

elup. He doesn't: “leprosy, ac cording to experts, |but he does. need & haircut—but

Victim Keeps

Be careful there . ... don’t touch

extraordinary caution. ~ The rec-|

haired man with city vagrancy and took him to Police Headquarters. There he: retold his story to detectives and exhibited inflamed hands and feet. He said he had “walked away” from the government hospital in Torrence, Cal, in 1945 and since “roaming the country.” He said he had eight brothers in Pittsburgh. Examined at Hospital At General Hospital he war examined by Dr. John Dalton, wide-

other specialists who just chanced! to-be in conference there. The verdict: No disease. Nothing con The physician intimated that a generous application of soap and water might possibly cure! Killeen's “leprosy.” i He was carted back to the City, Jail and booked. This timeé police weren't so frightened of him. He was advised to “wash up” A United Press check revealed

Girl, 17, Watches Father

Kill Mother and Himself

CHICAGC, Mar. 18 (UP)—Wil-| liam A. Allen, 44, shot and killed his “ estranged wife early today and then killed himself with the same pistol as their 17-year-old daughter, Kathleen, watched in horror.

Helen, 42, had been separated for ly known skin specialist, and four, six years. They had six children.

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In 1945 he became the first national chairman of “Give to the Yanks who Gave,” a movement to cheer hosj italized veterans during the Christmas season. Mr. Brown also inaugurated a religious and racial tolerance campaign -within™ the department, sponsoring speakers representing major religious faiths. Besides commanding the Indiana department, Mr. Brown was past commander of Bloomington’s Woolery Post; commander of District Seven, and was southern vice commander in 1943, He was a veteran of World war 1. Legion officials were here today to consult with survivors on fineral arrangements,. State:wide

part ‘in ceremonies indicated one

of the largest niilitary rites held|

for-a-member In Indiana, officials sald. Mr. Brown is survived by his wife, Eva; three brothers, Paul, Bloomington; Chéster, ‘Smithville, and Ercell, Bloomington, and a sister, Mrs. Roy Stansfer, near Bloomington,

Police said Allen and his wife,

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from life rafts. The remaining 14 were found aboard the disabled Elder. All were in good condition.

disappointment last Monday when

Brewster passed nearby but failed to see their frantic signals for help and disappeared over the horizon.

Fire in Engine Room

mar, Cal, commander of the Elder on a buoy-laying mission

“|to Eniwetok Island for.the spring

atomic tests there, said the Brewster came within three miles of his ship, which was disabled when

control, Asked how he felt after finally being rescued, Lt. Adams said: “I “believe it was the hand of God written across the sky toe

Lt. Adams said the 14 men who remained aboard the fire-ravaged net tender used “flares, internae tional distress signals, flags, smoke, mirrors, Very pistol shoot ing stars and 20 millimeter cane non” without atracting the Brews« ter's attention, Ammunition Dumped “The . crew jumped. and waved and we would have used threes inch ammunition if we had still had it,” he added in a radio ine terview after heing taken aboard a rescue vessel. All the ammunition was thrown. into the sea whén the engine fire spread through the ship threatened to ignite the ip sud

sives in the. ship's -arsenal, Lf, Adams said. »

The Brewster answered

which ‘means “repeat. repeat,” in Navy code, and then sailed on without

—will invade the weather was expected to bring 2

In Indianapolis, temperatures

Both groups told of a bitter the Army transport Gen. A. W,

Lt. William F. Adams of Wils

an-engine room fire raged ‘out-of.

night that was in our favor” _.

Lt. Adams related. ©