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Missing Ex-FB| Man Shows Up; ‘Had Blackout’
‘He Sounded Tired,’ Wife Says After
~~HePhones Her MT. VERNON, N. Y., Apr, 26 (UP)—Mrs. John J. Huber said today that her husband, a one-time FBI undercover agent, telephoned her twice this morning from New York.
Mount Vernon is a New York|
suburb. Huber, who was. under subpena to testify before a Senate subcommittee in Washington, said he had “blacked out” in the capi-| tal, Mrs. Huber reported. He was| supposed to have testified last| night. Ge Mrs. Huber said she was posi-
* tive her caller was Mr. Huber. |
This, she said, was Mr. Huber's| message when he first called at| 6:30 a. m.,, Indianapolis time: “Had blackout. Find myself! back in New York. Will try to be| back home tonight.” Mrs. Huber raid he sounded “nervous and tired.” | “I had no chance to question! him,” she said. “I tried to sound
“calm; because - I" -didn't-want to! upset him any more.” |
Hangs Up Abruptly
“This time there was even less| ~~~
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of a conversation,” she said. “He
said, ‘I'll see you tonight’ ana 4 Prosecutor Candida es...
hung up again.”
She said she tain, from| gf © : ps ot at GIVE Views on Problems
would not appear before the subcommittee in Washington today. “I don’t know his exact con-| dition,” she said, “but I'm certain he wouldn't go back to Washing-| ton today. I guess he'll just rest! in New York and come home to-
night. He's just very tired and power, have sou {have failed.
needs a good rest.” Not Too Worried Earlier Mrs. Huber said
play” after her husband disap-
” - ” What the plunderworld knows . peared from a Washington hotel and the people fail to realize—| ate to Ist where he had checked in yester-\is that the prosecutor holds the!
day with Lawrence Kerley, a for-| power of life and death, of freemer FBI agent, who was to festify|dom and prison.
with him before the Senate inves-| He exerts more judicial pow. tigators, oii than judge. Te, alone; But this morning nti al Aer Tithout o riot,
“wasn't too worried” three days from home and “he
usually calls In every three or|two Democrats and two Repub-|
four days.”
Inside
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Judges busy with Times Sew“ing Contest ‘entries wine ners will be announced Sunday ...... ronnie eens
Central States Modern Language. Teachers Association
will meet here this week-end | oo." Fo grand jury. Ad- ficial slate announcement. |vising the grand jury.
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Archbishop Schulte will preside | at St. Vincent's Hospital - School of Nursing com- | mencement May 4... Junior Civic Theater to present “The Pied Piper” Friday,
Henry Butler's review of the concert in Caleb Mills Hall | last night .....
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Phone strike called off . . . quick settlement sought. %
Page Cumbent: “No issues have as yet combe. | developed. ig campaign. promises. I. will. have. Rutherford... ‘ _— pronounced views before the fall
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she city’s plunderworld. feared the ‘possibility of foul same racketeering interests.
after aller a'man'ls flty or innocent of because he had been absent only any crime. en {
* [formation about the men who seek to hold the prosecutor's job, was expected to be made official The Times asked all prosecutor tomorrow or Friday. candidates to give their views on| the important problems of tbe who declined to be named, told sidered a grudge affair when 1 prosecutor's office.
dependent of organized gambling slate of candidates indorsed by residence. Page elements.
emerges 2 ~ May 2 primary and the fall general election will fall the respon- the county GOP machine and
| sibility of:
‘county laws. |inal cases.
sanity proceedings, appearing in Saturday and Sunday ..... 14 all default divorce hearings.
1 {facts in all criminal cases war-| Philharmonic Orchestra's [rant arrests.
sesseesesss. 18/said. The results in no way reSn ‘Hfleet-the views of The: Times. -No suggestions were made. didates were given a free hand to list the issues as they, themselves, {considered them important.
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1950 a
Trash Can Detective
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Kills Self as Capture Nears:
Suspect in Shooting | - Of Executive Fires | Bullet Into Temple
Times State Service |
RICHMOND, Apr. 26—An| 18-year-old athlete shot him-| *
self fatally early today in a
{field near Pennville, Ind., as he faced capture for the shooting of a Hagerstown ladvertising executive. | Fred Stark, Cambridge City High School basketball and track star, died in Reid Memorial Hos{pital here at 8:55 a. m. with Lookout . . . to see if Indianapolis residents are doing their [2 Scaling bullet wound in his bit*to* keep the city clean during -the-annual “Tidy -Up- Week," | yo o A Times Columnist Ed Sovola crawled into a trash can for a worm's. | age County Sh i on Wi AN \ ew.’ his full report on Page 15 Ce [stat P B : eye view. Read his full r port on Page 15. ue [state - police, ran down young |Stark at 6 a. m. today. + “Sought Since Monday Sheriff Wilson had been search--ing for Stark since Monday night, when the athlete pumped five bullets into Fred Senn, 42, assistant {advertising manager of Perfect Each Declares He Is Independent Circle Piston Corp. Of Organized Gambling Elements | Mr. Senn was reported in “im- : tproved” condition today in Henry By IRVING LEIBOWITZ
|County Hospital, New Castle, and Who rules the prosecutor can rule or ruin Marion County. was expected to live. | For years, money-hungry politicians, aware of the prosecutor's “This clears it up,” Sheriff Wilght to control the office. Some have succeeded. Many son said today."
bullet hole in plane landing whee . = 2
From Missing
- So. Often the prosecutor bécame the “front office man” for the
In many. cases, the prosecutor has fought these bachelor, entered the home of They said dimensions of (piston firm's owners. Mr. Senn|the small nose wheel of a Priva {was residing in the home while teer’s tricycle landing gear. | Mrs. Teetor is in Florida. | Mr. Senn, however, had gasped on the wheel assembly under cel {Stark’s name after he stumbled jophane were identified by
0_the h of neighbors - pS 3 Ming the smipcing “He had hous! Nivel ER st : Fhe tts . be from the same 22-caliber auto- what Swedish authorities matic rifle with which Stark/|goked like bullet marks, killed himself today.
Ey Makes Indorsements
In Marion County, four men. A The Marion County Republican
seven incumbents for next TuesIn order to give the voters in- day’s primary. lets in Mr. Senn’'s neck, jaw and jtjes. The list is not official yet. It left shoulder. | The shooting, at first believed by police to have occurred during |
Two top-ranking party leaders, a robbery attempt, later was con- | eter, almost exactly the
Markings in English Swedish authorities said
The Times today the list is com-|/was learned that Stark last sumAll four candidates responded. plete. /mer was fired by Mr. Senn from Each of them claims to be in-| They reported the full county his job as houseboy in the Teetor
the small Privateer nose wheel, 36 inches. Attached was a Firestone tire and a shock absorber with an inspection plate bearing markings in English “23/2/1949 time test.” A paper-strip under cellophane bore the lettering ‘‘Scraft Aris
the regular organization, .ex-| First break in the search for clusive of legislative candidates. Stark, which had been carried on |since the shooting Monday night, came at 6 a. m. today, according Ww : A bitter factional feud between to Sherif Wilson. Pore urement. Period” followed hy Police Directed to Barn capital letters “NTI TY IN A telephone tip directed police SP.” * to a barn on the farm of Charles Ladd with whom Stark had been Criminal Court Judge Saul IL rooming, TWO: Enforcing the state and Rabb, a regular organization can-| when five sheriff's cars and didate, signed the consent formi{w, state police cars converged THREE Prosecuting all crim- '!0 be slated by "the American on the barn Stark ran into a
Way rebei group. field. Police, after shouting at He was immediately taken off hin, 15 stop, fired into the air
the regular organization slate 54 then at Stark. until a meeting of top GOP po-| As Stark ran on, police jumped litical strategists put him back into cars to surround him. They on the county machine's ap- saw the young athlete shoot him|proved list. W 'self once in the head and slump | Judge Rabb said he was “only unconscious to the ground. |trying to get'the support of all here were 50 or 60 rounds of was unarmed. The U. S. charged groups. ! ammunition found in his pockets, that Russian fighter pilots opened The county GOP list of candi-igneriff Wilson said. (fire “on ‘the Privatéer over “open tdates who will. get indorsement| pgjice said Stark apparently waters. follows: {nursed resentment against Mr. Swedish authorities . said the Congress—Charles Brownson. ‘(Senn following his dismissal a Wheel assembly weighed: 325 Circuit Judge — Lloyd Clay- year ago, after he invited friends Pounds. They said it was found into the home for a party during In ienstions] Water na that \ . Mrs. T ’ b se S welg 1 was Criminal Judge 1 — Robert, or ores sence mother of doubtful that it could have irifted A _ vy os itis we oot SRT mL at eek Criminal Judge 2—8aul I. Rabb. a ee rman of he * They described the wheel as the L. An State Representative Pp “hottest clue yet” in the 18-day | : search that has uncovered at least Stark, son of the Teetor’s care-
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the rebel American Way RepubONE: Preparing facts for pres- /ican Committee held up the of-
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Authorities probably was code. Russia claimed an American bomber was fired upon when it violated the Soviet frontier over Leipaja, Latvia, and fired first on Soviet fighters. Weighs 3225 Pounds The United States in a note said the only American plane in the area on that day—Apr. 8— was the Privateer and that it
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I . I | : ; " ker, had a key to the house. He Dilie Oocis as clues to the Priva Superior Judge 3—Wilbur Grant/was waiting for Mr. Senn as the ow : ; nternationa — onvic dragon oF The wheel will be shipped to THE E Pagel J ! . and Frank A vues, er Hatter stepped. in the door Monday Africa for study by Amierican inCo i . | . * Superior udge — alter n . telligence officials. Sowaways hide ia Slosets and © | Pritchard. "| "After firing three shots, then * Scnce officials bri ® Saf or « Ti Feo our | | Superior Judge 5—Paul Clark. two more as Mr. Senn attempted] LOCAL TEMPERATURES Sispatities aed Sparks | | Prosecutor—Edwin Haerle, to reach a light switch, Stark 6 a. m... 43 10 a. m... 54 o% ‘Ways of Entering Para- WASHINGTON, Apr. 26 (UP)—| Sheriff—James Langsford. rushed out the door. He was the! 7 a. m... 44 11 a. m... 45 {F] trenns A federal court jury today con- Treasurer— Louis Rainier. object of a tri-state manhunt until 8 a.m... 48 12 (Noon) 57 Other Features victed John Maragon on two of ~ AUSMor-RoY T. on, | a: Ahn R rap ns {three counts of lying to a Senate Recorder—Harry Alford : . E Ti N About People ........o.0v 15 lipvestigating committee. | Ansens iy J : Times Tells Story Enter Iimes- avy meme 101 an |e Ro ae Serio fe Tes Tells 8 Bridge .....cce000000000 8 [himself at home in Maj. Gen. The seven incumbents are, 0. iier
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Harry Vaughn's White House off-| J ice, was found innocent of the third count.
sentence of 20 years imprison- . - . ment. The penalty for each count Muncie Junior Wins is two to 10 years.
| Federal {immediately committed Maragon|cie High School junior, today was to jail after denying a defense request that the 56-year-old de-|VFW essay contest. He'll receive] fendant be freed on bail.
{of lying when he told Senators ica.” |investigating ‘five per centers”| {that:
account—that ‘bank in 1945 or 1946.
with the Chicago perfume company when he undertook a mis- Americanism Day parade and| sion to Greece for the State De-'rally. Attorney Alex Campbell of | partment in 1945 and 1946.
when the verdict was announced. speak. > {
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Maragon faces a maximum!
VFW District Contest Marshall Neil White Jr., Mun-
No date was set for sentencing. Judge Jennings ‘Bailep|
named winner in the 10th district
{a $50 savings bond for his essay| The jury.found Maragon guilty on “Peace With Honor for Amer-|
His winning essay will be entered in the Indiana VFW essay! ONE: He had only one bank contest, the winner of which will in a Washington receive a $500 savings bond. | Mr. White will receive his award TWO: That he had quit his job Sunday in Richmond when the 10th district VI'W stages an
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To Buy Extra War Planes
Hunted Athlete Points Out Bullet Hole House Group Ex
Riddled Wheel Believed
Dimensions of Object Found in Baltic Sea
Fit Landing Gear of Privateer LONDON, Apr. 26 (UP)—-U There: had been a pullet-marked airplane wheel found in the Baltic Sea could have tain the establishment in New! no witnesses to the shooting, come from the unarmed American Privateer that disappeared with which took place as Mr. Senn, a 10 men aboard after an attack by Soviet aircraft. the wheel, Mrs. Leora Teetor, one of the net about 100 miles southwest of Liepaja, Latvia, fitted those of ated Office of Packages for Ro-| |
Small anchor markings sealed
naval
said was hauled up by a Swedish fishing Medical authorities at Henry poat south of the island of Gotlicans—seek the power of the Central Committee will indorse | County Hospital said X-rays re-/|and yesterday. prosecutor's office.
It was turned vealed the presence of all five bul- over to Swedish customs author-
the
wheel was 90 centimeters in diam- the preceding week-end. . . figure preparation day for the coming| Remains Serious | American Naval officials gave for Friday-Saturday rush.
| Navy Beauty Contest. See story on Page I7. . X
To Boost Figure Later As Johnson Requested
$50 Million Approved for Navy To Expand Anti-Submarine Forces {tions Committee today approved $350 million in extra dee fense funds to be used mainly for buying more warplanes, Secretary Louis Johnson told subcommittees that the extra money is necessary at this moment. that the world situation will require additional defense | 1 1 |The new money includes $200 { omanian IC {million for Air Force planes, $100 | {million for Navy aircraft and $50 Branch |for antisubmarine warfare. Given 2 Weeks The House Military Appropriae I (UP) [mediately the $300 million “extra {— The United States today ordered for aircraft procurement and the {Romania to close its office in|$50 million extra for Navy ship Asked $553 Million Johnson asked for ‘$553
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> . Acme Telephoto : Capt. Anton Nilsson, Swedish fisherman, points to apparent New York within two weeks.
WASHINGTON, Apr. 26 (UP)—The House Appropriae The committee acted barely two hours after Defense s x.» Mr. Johnson also warned U. S. Closes Down spending in future years. | in N.Y. {million to convert naval vessels ’ . itions Subcommittee approved ime | WASHINGTON, Apr. 26 i {conversion.
| This was in retaliation for Romania’s closing the U, 8. Information Service Offifce in Bu-/minion.
(Charest. | The other $203 million would | The order was in a note which have restored a cut previously {the United States delivered to the made in the Defense Depantment
- Romanian legation in Washing-|
| found in Baltic. 5 Mr.
U.S. Plane
ton, the State Department an-| WASHINGTON, Apr. 26 (UP) nounced. | ==Chairman Carl Vinson of the | “It is not acceptable to the House Armed Services Commit-
tee sald today that in view of worsening world conditions he will ask Congress to extend the York City operating under the| Present draft law without name of office of the Romanian| change for two years.
| Commercial Attache and its affili-| o poropriation by the committee, 4 : . Chairman Clarence Cannon {D, mania,” the United States noteiy,)"y,iq the committee will cone
|said. ay : MErCHats £0 SB it. woe curses iat ne omee oer mr Sins to: put. wack
represented an “unauthorized eX-| The $350 million addition ap-
{ {tension of the consular functions committee would
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0 POL, 1Z5T, 000, Of the new amounts the aircraft procurement funds are in contract authority and the antisubmarine fund is in new cash. Mr. Johnson also asked for diversion of $24 million from other money to build tanks. Mr. Cannon said “it is hoped” that the extra money will be made up by savings elsewhere. bated on House Floor The committee’s action came while. the omnibus appropriation bill which includes money for defense was being debated on the
{quested by the Romanian govern-| . {ment or given by the United to Be Set | States government for the estab-
By LARRY STILLERMAN lishment of a Romanian consu-| y Times Real Estate Editor |late in New York City,” the note |
Most Hoosier merchants close said. | up shop for half a day on]
Wednesdays. { ’ 28: It’s their mid-week rest ¢rom| DT Esch s Condition It's. the|
Another, New Record Ex
: | Dr. I. Lynd Esch, president of But today these Hoosiers willl Indiana Central College, is in bring their business to the Silver serious condition today in the |Anniversary Home Show. | Wabash County Hospital with inTheir attendance will snap pre-| juries suffered in an auto crash prose floor vious week-day records as the yesterday. The Defense Department ap3 er Hospital officials reported he Larently had been content to Home. Show. Facts. _|rested well during the night. OT i aT. cnr WHERE—Manufacturers Build-| Examination showed several == .0 budget request for the milj« a ing, State Fairgraunds. fractured ribs and numerous cuts ory services until Gen. Dwight WHEN—Daily through Apr. 30, and bruises, but no skull fracture Eisennow, d i Ne 11% wn. to Jem on of COBUUSSIOn. {D. Eisenhower expressed in a New SPECIAL TOURING GROUPS Dr. Esch was involved in a|YOFk speech his concern for the —Twenty-four high school, col- head-on collision 15 miles north|® r- Or e haLon 3 nae d lege. and club groups in home of Wabash on State Road 15. He! i. wa supreme e economics and planning. was on-his way to Camp Mack,
commander in Europe subsequente ! 5 iri ly was called before Congressmen 5 ; i {north of Wawasee, to talk before | Rousing tir sashays into its firth the ministerial retreat of the St.}
to give in details his views. At More than 10,000 are expected
Joseph Conference of Evangelical | the time he suggested that the to mill through the Manufactur-
. hes. {military budget be increased by United Brethren Churches | about $500 million for more ers building at the State Fairgrounds.
The driver of the other car,| Mrs. Fred Mellencamp of War. Planes, Alaska defense, and antie That's the forecast of J. Frank Cantwell, managing director of
saw, suffered knee injuries. {Submaring equipment. the exposition.
“We're far ahead of last -. Allies Won't Let Reds Run
° i . conten on pase co. 0. Qyer-Berlin, Acheson Says Truman to Meet Press : State Secretary Says West Keeps With a New Wrinkle | Hand Covered on What It Will Do
pr ASHINGTON. Apr. 26 (UP) WASHINGTON, Apr. 26 (UP)—Secretary of State Dean Aches Tesident Truman will hold a... today served notice that when planned Communist disturbances news conference at 3 p. m. (Indi-\;;, "porjin next month are over, the Western powers will still be .Anapalis. ‘Rme) tomorrow. and the. there: oni: . a a EE Tange es nates new Pract nt BEWemen standing Mr.. Acheson told a news conference that he could assure anye ine HYIE themselves before. that when the commotion dies away we will still be in Berlin, — agking questions will be inaugu- He said it had been made quite | ;
rated. The news conference also will clear that all three Western pow- Got a Topcoat ? be switched . from the, White TS the United States, Brita) House to a room-in the old. State ad France = Jor wo remain Get It Out, Boy, wn Department building next to the Ver y i | : K - ’ * White House. planned Communist demonstra It old A in President Truman made the ONS. $ L ga change in news conference pro- Mr. Acheson said that it was! TOPCOATS that have been in cedure which has been the same obvious the Western occupation |g. 4 out of the mothballs a dozen
since the days of Woodrow Wil- powers would not divulge what|s;.o already this spring got ane other airing today as near freezs
son. steps they would take in the face EE EE “7 |of the Red threat to four power ino temperatures blanketed the Beauty Contest \control of the German capital. gate at Pera a | “We are just going to do it,| Here in Indianapolis, the mers {he said. cury slipped from a high of 67 early yesterday to a teeth-chate
Mr. Acheson's views came when asked to comment on reports that tering 38 at 4:30 a. m. today at the Western powers might make Weir Cook Municipal Airport. The a joint demarche to the Soviet|downtown low for the morning Union about the Communist plans was 40, $ for Berlin demonstrations, and| Other refrigerated commun send a memo to the United Na-iin'the state were Paoli with 33 tions Security Council on the sub- degrees; South Bend, 35; Ft ject, Wayne, 36; Lafayette, 38, and Marion, 37. » - - CHILLY temperatures again toe night throughout the state and then the current cold snap should be over, the weatherman said. Bright sunshine in the Hoosier capital "today was expected to push thermometers to an after : noon high of 55.. The city wil © 4 120 per cent to 10 per cent. share in bottomlands frost in } | The House Ways and Means central and northern portions of bd Committee, considering President the state tonight as the mercury - #% Truman's tax revision program, slips to 38, forecasters said. Thompson Road, and Charlotte are early entrants in The Times-
House Committee
Agrees on Tax Cut | WASHINGTON, Apr. 26 (UP) —House tax writers tentatively
agreed today to cut movie, theater and sporting event admissions taxes from the present
also reconsidered an earlier de-| Spring will return to the city ° cision and tentatively voted to tomorrow. Despite 4 cut the tax on luggage fr 20 skies, an afternoon high of
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| per cent to 10 per cent. ? was predicted. :