Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 March 1950 — Page 2

- Lick, Ky. was charged with mur-

Fiend. Death

~ Shooting Occurs After Argument + Over Victim's Wife

A 21-year-old Kentucky mountaineer today .faced charges of killing his best friend in an argument over the victim's wife early Yesterday, “Curvie Estel Pierson, Berry's|

der after state police found the body of Aaron Thompson, 35, on the floor of a tiny cabin at the Combs Park Trailer Camp, 8. Hobart St. = The victim’s wife. Rose, 32, was

- year-old Warren Scholer, 207 Ful-| who ran head-on into keep the streets clear. Another youth while "playing ball "in: Arsenal Park yesterday. Hel LaSalle and E. was treated at General Hospital| East and E. Washington Sts., and for a knee injury. E. Joe Parham, 16, of 1727 How-| Sts. ard St, was given first aid at/hundreds of motorists hurried to General Hospital yesterday for work. bites on his arm. He said he was| Extra bitten by a snake at. Minnesota, rushed.

“booked at the Marion County Jail]

police investigated the shooting. State police said the investiga-| tion revealed the three had been!

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Treat Various Disepacs So far, the hormones have been used in experimental treatment of more than 50 different: types of disease in man. The diseases include rr leukemia, arthritis, fever, high blood pressure, asthma, tuberculosis, poliomyelitis, multiple sclerosis, some allergies, alcoholism, and mental | disturbances. ' : ~Ih Some cases thé results:

investigators are not sure, There

(the audience will appear on a have been some failures.

The Times and Radio Station'subsequent Music With the Horliving in the small cabin for three WISH are. going to give local mel Girls network show from

The fact that ACTH and cortisone have helped some seriously

weeks. They said Mrs. Thompson feminine entertainers an oppor- another city. The trip will be free|!ll Persons is not the exciting tod them Pierson had come to tunity to perform in connection to the winner.

3 with ‘the appearance of Music| In from Kentucky at oe With the Hormel Girls in Indian-|

er apolis on Apr. 16, had been looking for a job for Poe all- on show heard each musical -instrumerjts, or present| 'have been found.

Sunday at 5:30 p. m. over WISH arly act suitable to radio to| and the ABC network will be qualify, Auditions will be held at !cal science is in a new era—the

husband's invitation and

Pierson.” Visited Taverns

small’. group may sing, play

The shooting occurred shortly broadcast direct from the new: {WISH early next month.

-after 2 a. m. Pierson and the Thompsons had

yesterday after) WISH studios. -

A registration blank to obtain

the Times: an audition. will appear in The

Any feminine. entertainer or

story among the scientists. The excitement comes in the fact that the underlying cause of most degenerative disease in man may

If such is the case then med-

{beginning of an era that may see! victory over heart disease, the

No. 1 killer, and ‘of cancer —

spent Saturday night visiting a WISH Talent Hunt will appear Times. All ages will be eligible, nd an era that some doctors be-

number of taverns.

before the studio audience with Keep watching your Times and!

|lleve may bring a normal life

Pierson told police they stopped the Hormel Girls after the regu- listening to WISH for other|5Pan of 100 or more years to the

t another cabin on the grounds| lar network broadcast Apr. 16. 3 o gr The entertainer judged best byi of auditions,

where he played his guitar for a while and then they went to thei Thompson ¢abin.

d he had Thompson cabin, He suid w= Cinderella Nominations

to the other cabin to get it,

neiming bo sua ve os ir Wl] Close This Week Letters Making Selections Must Be Postmarked by Sunday Midnight

This is the last week to nominate kind-hearted teen age girls {for ‘honors-and a share of $500 in cash in The Times Cinderella | Contest. Letters nominating girls as Cinderella must be” postmarked by next Sunday midnight. The Times is searching for the girl whos life best parallels the {Cinderella of legend good deeds in behalf of others Disney's Cinderella novelty Jewel|stand out over all the candidates. ry.- Winners also will be anShe will receive $300 in cash. nounced in The Times that day. he second place Cinderella will! eceive $100 and third will get ager for Cinderella honors, deperson nominating the Scribe as briefly as possible—and will receive lin 3 not more than 150 words—how

ment during which Mr. Thompson | slapped his wife. He said when Mr. Thompson reached for a gun, on a shelf he drew his own ,22 caliber pistol and shot him. Arrested After Call Pierson was arrested in the | 2100 block E. Walker St. after he| telephoned a friend ata filling | station to tell him he was in! trouble. The friend, in turn, called | police. The pistol was found in a trash can at the rear of the cabin.

State police quoted Pierson as

.- saying Mrs. Thompson “is in love! with me.” Mrs. Thompson Curvie dikes me quit d asked her to run away “With him. {

Co., 450 Kentucky Ave,

been shot three times. Pierson was scheduled for ar-|

raignment on a fifst-degree mur-|from the stage. Fach of the 97 der charge today in Speedway runners-up will get a Walt Dis-| ney musical album of the “Cin-| : derella”

Magistrate Court.

{Talent Hunt news and the dates

. Whose,

| $50. told police first- -Place

To Arar. on Stage | The 100 girls judged the best 0Wn desires, Send your letter to: Mr. Thompson, a mechanic em- Cinderellas from the information| Cinderella Contest, The Indianap- “ “Ployed by the Terminal Transfer in the letters will appear on the ©lis Times, 214 W. Maryland St. was stage of the Indiana Theater Apr.|All letters become the property of pronounced dead at the scene by! |5, the day Walt Disney's new caran ambulance physician, He had toon-movie,

“Cinderella,” opens Judges will be final. there,

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human being. Stifl Experimental The reader of this series of dispatches should remember. that both ACTH and cortisone are still| in the experimental stage; that neither is available for general use; that the doctors know they| have “something hot,” but have| not yet determined just how and: when to use it. The situation {is somewhat similar to atomic energy. The scientists knew for years that powerful amounts of energy were locked up inside the atom, but means to release it did not come until a war made possible the expenditure of enormous amounts of research money. | So it is with ACTH and cortisone. The search is now going on —one day the wonder’ substances will be at work on a mass production basis.

Nexer “AFURFINS, The No. T Victim.

[welfare - -of others ahead of her"

The Times and the decision of the

500 ‘Expected at Final

Red Cross Drive Session More than 500 people are ,eX~ {pected at Ipalco Hall at 6:30 p. m.

— Willis B. Connor Jr; campaign

. Entertainment

male choir from El Lilly & Co, under direction of Robert Davis.

Explosion of a kerosene stove in

the kitchen of the home. of Mrs. E.|Wednesday at the Walter B. : : : ; Cooke Funeral Home, He fr aure ll Neti ———— i erin

William E. McKenney, ‘bridge col{loday for the final report meet-'umnist and card expert, died yesing the the 1950 Red Cross fund|terday at the New York Hospital Snarl Mid-Town Traffic, \drive. The Marion County goal is|/after an illness of more than two gums Failure of three signal lights ’ : -jaurin early morning rusn baseball and snake bite casual [re Oe aug threa/Chairman, said the drive. still has Spring practice victim. was 17-| downtown intersections and re. BPProXimately one-fifth of the way, quired emergency policemen to|t® 80.

the American Cantract Bridge

were adopted by the league as the scheduled for ICC bridge laws.

‘lions of card players, he wrote a! daily bridge column distributed to! 250 newspapers by NEA Service, ne.

vived by his wife, the former

McKenney, Expert On Cards, Dies

Author of Bridge,

Canasta Columns NEW YORK, Mar, 27 (UP)—

among research scientists for quantities of the substance to try on human ilis. Work is going on laboratories, and trials om human beings are being Wl made in at least 100 hospitals and ~ | institutions.

been “sensational.” In others the

John C. Uhrlaub, Vincennes, who will seek the Republican nomina-

For Nomination

+ Miss Sally Butler, president of the International Federation of Business and Professional Women, filed today as a candidate for Republican congressional: nomination in the 11th District. Miss Butler is the second to {enter the Republican 11th District congressional primary race officially. Winner of that race will oppose Congressman Andrew Jacobs. in the election next November,

land for many years a resident; here, Miss Butler served as state and national president of the BPW before becoming international president three years ago. Hér term in that office expires July 1. Taught School

She came to Indianapolis short-! {ly before World War I. She had

been teaching school in Morgan County and came here to get further training in Madame Blaker’s Teachers’ College, now a part of Butler University. During the first war she answered a national appeal for women to work in the postal service and remained in that service for 25 years. During World War II she was invited by the federal

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|Tony Progressing,

A native of Morgan County

{rt in School

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Critical List Leukemia Boy Begins 2d Week on ACTH

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join the fund and the boy soon will recover.” — -A total of $2,089.81 had been contributed to the Dale Roger Back Eund. Expenses had for $887.60 up to yessaving a balince of

Thus far, funds have been solicited only in the North Vernon ty.

May Be Home Soon NEW YORK, Mar. 27—Tyrone (Tony) Diggin, the fellow Indian-

York, should be coming home one of these days soon. . At University Hospital autherities said Tony is feeling better and might be coming back to Indianapolis in about three weeks. His blood picture is improved, doctors said, and swelling is coming down. But, they added, it's “very slow.” Tony, who is 11, was flown tolg New York by the Indianapolis

wonder drug ACTH. He has also

been treated with its sampagion hormone, cortisone.

Defense Chief, Truman Confer

By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press White House Reporter

Defense Ministers at The Hague. Before Mr. Johnson arrived, the President held a 25-minute telephone conference with his congressional leaders, discussing the omnibus foreign assistance program and Republican attacks on the State Department and Secre-

pilot?”

Variety Club for treatment with|®>® of Pligrim Shrine 12, Order of

KEY WEST, Fla. Mar. 27— Mis. Worthington! Defense Secretary Louis Johnson Chastain, worthy treasurer: Beaarrived here today for a. confer- trice Wolfe, ence with President Truman be-|Margarintha Venis, worthy shep-

fore leaving tomorrow for a herdess, and Gertie Gates, worthy meeting of North Atlantic Pact guide.

{window and let him see the Empire State bufiding. He told about his trip around New York the day he was released: a ferry ride to the Statue

retusning.

more to tell them his schoolmates came forth with questions. - “What's a ferry?”

und?” “Did you go up front with the

“Didja really ‘hear from Roy

Rogers? Is he gonna let you ride his horse?”

school.

Pilgrim Shrine Names Officers

‘ the White Shrine ¢ of Jerusalem.

er, watchman of the shepherds; Florence Herr-

Wilson, worthy

of Liberty, a subway ride, another|,, wo o0iory expected Mr. look at the Empird State Build-| reject the request. ing and finally of his return trip]

home and His experiences since 'E. Tydings (D. Md.) said he ex-

When Jerry could think of N0{man “very

ing the

loyalty files available tg

the subcommittee. Mr. McCarthy

“Does the subway go under- and some other Republicans con« tend that refusal to make the

loyalty files’ available would con«

stitute charges.

a “whitewash” of the

“Pure Moonshine” ° ME: Tyiags wee shows a cable

had no comment on

turn from Afghanistan, around

Apr. 1.

Mrs. Brunauer, labeled by Sen.

McCarthy as a poor security risk, Ms Margaret Worthington to- struck back at his charges for

both herself and her husband Dr.

day reigned as worthy high priest- Stephen Brunauer, a Navy scientist.

She sald her husband fis a

loyal American, but when he Other “- officers came to America at the age of installed in cere-/18 as a Hungarian immigrant, monies Saturday|friends “brought him” into the in Red Men’'s|Communist-dominated Hungarian Hall include/section of the Young Workers Henry Hoffmey-|League.

. Reports Threats But she said that when he bes

mann, noble San to understand its operations, prophetess; Ivy|he broke away.

To the Senate Foreign Rela

scribe; Rut h/tions Subcommittee she exhibited a letter from former Sen. Joseph worthy chaplain; H. Ball (R. Minn.), which described Mr. Brunauer as “the most violently anti-Communist person I know.”

tary Dean Acheson.

Treasury Department to transfer her services there to sell war, bonds. She was with the Treas-|

A UrY. Department. fiveIng after 30 years in civil service, |

Miss Butler received a law de-| gree from Indiana University Law School and was admitted to the bar in Indiana in 1938. She is a member of the American Bar Association and of Pilot International, another women's. organization. She also is a member of Local 130, AFL National Federation of Post Office Clerks.’ Only other congressional candidate to file in the Secretary .of State's - office this moraing- was

montHs. Mr. McKenney, 59, helped found

{League in 1927 when he drew up a code of rules for the game which!

tion in the 7th District.

Known as “Mr. Bridge” to mil

Funeral services will be held!

i! It

f | I's 1

Cartas taatgan

There were no/Marguerite Hoffmeister, herself a . |bridge expert.

terested in bridge during World| {War I and when’ the American | mir Bridge ' League was|

{War Orphans Scholarships, Inc.|

the Children’s Cancer Fund, Inc. | —Mr-McKenney became a mem- J ber of the National Canasta Laws | Commission in recent years and wrote a column on canasta for! NEA and The Indianapolis Times.

| murder trial of Robert - Austin | Watts in the 1947 slaying of In-} | dianapols housewife Mary Lois! _| Burney is ‘scheduled to resume to-| morrow.

when = Judge George W. Long | granted the defense five days to! | Investigate six women who identified Watts!

life for the second time. ‘Once convicted and sentenced to “die, fis, as ranted 2 new trial by Jthe. 8. Supreme Co said constitutional rights had been violated. The state is aan king, the death Penalty.

Named Secretary Mr. McKenney gave up a retail tire business in Cleveland, O.. n 1927, to devote his entire time 0 the game. He had become in- |

ormed, he became its executive ecretary, serving in the post for! 8 years, | He retired from the league in 048 to devote his full time to!

f which he was president, and

» # »

Times State Service COLUMBUS, Mar. 27 — The

It was recessed last Wednesday

“surprise” witnesses,

Watts is standing trial for his |

urt which

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The President today also sent (a letter to Sen. Arthur H. Van|denberg (R. Mich.); thanking him! “Tis of therentirs posed authorization for foreign | assistance. { Mr. Johnson was called to Key! West by the chief executive who wanted an up-to-date report on defense - matters before the sec-| retary left for The Hague eet in, Betense ministers and chiefs of} staff of the Defense Pact nations will participate in The Hague meeting. According to Charles G. Ross, press secretary to the Presi-|

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