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Youth Goes on Trial In Slaying of Thayer
Earl Kelly's Case Opens In Greenfield
Charged in Killing And Robbery of Local Lawyer
By JOE ALLISON Times Staff Writer GREENFIELD, Feb. 12—A fanky, shifty-eyed and extremely! nervous youth sat in Hancock] county’s ancient circuit courtroom| here today and heard his name linked with murder, death, robbery and the electric chair. | Earl Michael Kelly, 17-year-old| Indianapolis youth, is accused in| the murder and robbery of Albert; M. Thayer, well-known Indian-| apolis lawyer, last June 10. | Mr. Thayer, former city attorney of Indianapolis, was beaten to death on a lonely; Hamilton County road by three, men with whom he had been| riding, authorities subsequently] learned. | Kelly and another 17-year-old, James Chalfin, have admitted] they took off their shoes and beat! the attorney to death. | Now Serving Life { Carrol E. Dooley, 27, also of Indianapolis, a third member of the gang, is currently serving life in the Indiana State Hospital for the Criminally Insane.
Chalfin’s case has been set in Tipton County on a change of venue. Sh Today, the tallish; sallow Kelly. youth sat about six feet from De fense Attorney Harris W. Avery, appointed as pauper lawyer by Circuit Judge Samuel J. Offutt. He took no part in the court activities and never said a word to his lawyer. He sat slouched in his chair, his feet spread widely apart, and fingered the buttons on his red and blue lumberjacket. Prosecution was in the hands of Miss Frances Neal, attractive 27-year-old prosecuting attorney | of Haniilton County, and Han-| cock County Prosecutor Melville! Watson. Miss Neal's father, At-
torney Noel Neal, was assisting. House Group Yotes Against
An interested spectator in the big courtroom, which also is usad! as a Greenfield auditorium, was 77-year-old Ira K. Thayer, father) of the slain attorney. Less than half a dozen seats were occupied] as the slow procedure of select-| ing a jury got underway.
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Statements On Welfare Confiscated
Assembly Doorkeeper Says He Acted on ‘Orders’ of GOP
By IRVING LEIBOWITZ Statements on welfare
practices, distributed by the Marion County Welfare Board in th state legislature, were confiscated today by
Leo Scharffin, chief doorkeeper of the General Assembly. The mimeographed statements, | comparing welfare practices
in| Lake and Marion Counties, were] being placed on the desks of state. representatives when Mr. Scharffin grabbed them and placed them
~Times Staff Photos by Dean Timmerman
Earl Michael Kelly, left, charged with murder, is shown with his attorney, Harris Avery.
«Noel C, Neal, Melville Watson and Frances N
eal, (left to right), are members of the prosecution staff. : ;
Passage of Speed Limit Bill
Committee Reports Measure Out to Floor, Leaving Its Fate Up to Membership
" By NOBLE REED The House Public Safety Committee today voted against recom-
The eléer Mr. Thayer said ‘he mending passage of the controversial bill to fix speed limits for had moved from Indianapolis t0 Indiana highways.
Noblesville temporarily to be near the scene of the trial. Origi-
nally, the defendants were in- membpership. -
dicted in Noblesville because the
slaying occurred in Hamilton|jmis of 0 miles an hour for day-| light hours and 50 mph. for night driving. :
Civil Defense Approval
County. He declined comment cn what he thought of the case or what penalty he wanted. At noon today, eight veniremen, seven men and a woman, were| tentatively selected by the prose-| cution after stating they approved of the death penalty for murder. Prosecuting attorneys, demanding the death penalty in opening|
the case would be tried under]
upon by the Republican leader-| {ship in both Houses and { Schricker, will be reported out by the House Ways and Means Com-
mittee with a recommendation] statements, made it clear that) ip. i pe passed.
Instead, the committee reported the measure out to the floor of the House with no recommendation, leaving its fate up to the
BULLETIN Indiana voters would have a chance to vote on the question of “fast time” or “slow time” | under provisions of an amend- | ment to the Eastern Standard
| Ti Bill adopted in the Hous The hig civil defense bill, agreed | il aqdopied in tne ue
The measure would set a speed |
Gov. referendum on the time question at the general election in
1952.
{control of rabies was scheduled
Committee Chairman Jess C. for third reading and passage in
The amendment calls for a
in his locker. State Rep. Joseph Klein, Demo-| crat insurance man of Gary, who lasked House pages to distribute |the statements, demanded that| [they be returned. After a heated argument with Mr. Scharffin, Mr. Klein took the statements and distributed them himself, placing one on every desk. | Mr, Scharffin said he had confiscated the statements “on orders from House Republican leaders.” | |He declined to say who they were. Mr. Scharffin was appointed by |House GOP leaders. ‘I'll Take All The Heat’ I | “I'll take all the heat. I can take it,” Mr. Scharffin told Mr. Klein and newsmen. | Mr. Klpin said he had no pe~{sonal interest in the welfare. |statements and had them distributed at the request of Albert Stump, a member of the Marion! [County Welfare Board. . { | “We get hundreds of letters,| 'statements’ and pamphlets on] jevery conceivable type of subject, for and against hundreds of! jpstes ‘Mr; Klein ‘said. “I ‘see no} Teason why ‘another one can't |be placed on the desks of tne members like the others.” Mr. Klein said he had not read any of the statements but took! {matters into his own hands arter |he observed Mr. Scharffin con|fiscating the statements. ‘Burned Me Up’ “I guess.it burned me up to think that there was someone trying to take it upon himself to decide what should and what shouldn't go on the desks of House members,” Mr. Klein said.
answer to recent newspaper criticism of the operation of the Marion County Welfare Department.
costs of operating Welfare De-| partments in Lake and Marion| Counties. ‘No Secret Session’ The Welfare Board, in defense] of its open-door general public | | policy, said: | { “The entire press in Marion! {County is notified of every regu-| lar meeting. There are no secret; or executive sessions. All meet-! lings have been open to the news{papers and the general public.” |
At the end of the statements a
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| ment is prepared, published and! |distributed without expense to the: | public. All costs are paid by pri-| vate citizens.” | It was signed by the Marion] {County Welfare Board of 1950, Mrs. Eleanor Dunn Moore, presi-| dent; Hiram W. McKee, vice presi-| dent; Mrs. Alice Brokenburr Ray;| B. L. Curry and Albert. Stump.
» The welfare statements were in’ yerore in history—also is in the en these people into buying or.
The statements compared the food prices and small rollbacks
deadlocked for weeks over a for-
notice was made that “this state-|PT® /ible plan that would permit enough]
{man board don’t think: it is lib-| eral enough. |
|wage agreement providing pay
Reds Rip Into Allies
For Nine-Mile Push;
- The Lovell family is one of six, May Keep Markup lin “the row” at 430-440 W. Merrill} selling at fixed St. who have been threatened praasieay of as at DE at each with eviction by landlord William | retailer will be allowed to use Allison, 3375 W. 10th St. 3 his customary markup—the dif-| Area rent attorney J. J. Gould, ference between what he pays|of the Office of Housing Expedit- - for an article and what he sells er, said it had been reported for ° lit for. That probably will mean some time that Mr, Allison had {more price rises, {been refusing to accept their rent | A similar order for retail foodiand then threatened eviction fo | prices now £8 “per cent over non-payment. A ‘Korea and ‘higher than ever| “Myr. Allison is trying to fright.
‘works and may be issued in &imoving -from their homes,” Mr. §
week or so. Informed sources said Gould “said.
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.S. to PunchMan F earing Cut Off Gls Right Flank Street Row g Food" Dealers |worry any more about him and! Last November WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 Merrill St. TOKYO, Tuesday, Feb. 13 set to punch a few more holes pout our facing eviction, and we day, amid increasing uni aid. “The strain of the worry| deep into Allied lines in cenTS » t -|/help any.” DE Ing hen oh 4 line the Reds wiped out a fivefee, , soybe and other retired. He had been in {ll health ts wa ] Allied forces in the west were Michael V. DiSalle. ployed by the Beveridge Paper : into Seoul across the Han River. effect of the fixed ceilings on the pital who had been treating. Mr| eed Iz miles erties ‘of act before the commodity futuges oi. onent on Mr. Lovell's medical | of 45,000 men—six. divisions—hit - ings for ‘non-food retail stores JAR BE, in line with. General Hospital » ster: Clement A: : crossing of the 38th Parallel in around Hoensong Monday in ef. land west. an American battalDesperate fighting still raged Three other families on Charles Chipyong to a point 15 miles east bilizer Eri¢ A. Johnston see no | An 8th Army spokesman said over-all rise of about 5 per cent {shoveled snow and melted it on their counter attach, WASHINGTON. Feb. 12 (UP) can battalion was cut off and
New Holes in Evicti Di By ED KENNEDY | Follow Tactics Expected to Get (his family being evicted from By EARNEST HOBERECHT : (UP) — "The government got | Mr. Lovell died yesterday. : . ts —Counter-attacking Commusthrough its price ceilings to-|had been talking about it just bepressure for a corresponding was just too much, and that shov-| tral Korea Monday. ners from direct price controls| Mr. Lovell, who was 49, dled He EO oad vosth commodities awaited only the go- for the past five years. Prior hid ee thrown back in their second TO ) Co. The cotton order probably, No. Statemant . Yet But American tanks'which capothers was uhicertsin, Lovell in the Hospital's Heart ‘Seoul. . exchanges reopen Tuesday. [history until written consent from the center of the Allied line 2] also may come through later this rules, he said. : Price Minister Clement Ati Korea until after full consuls {forts to slow down the roaring In their first lunge the Comtrapped jon and a South Korean regiment. 'all along a 35-mile segment of the in others. St. are being treated in a similar of Hoensong. Chipyong is 20 miles On Feb. 1, the water was turned, ’ Reds threw three Chinese and Truman Asks the in the general price level by sum-| iy <8 attack. | he AmicH ont reports sa e Ameri|—President Truman asked Con. |3Pped west of Hoepsong when
B S hi " age . . . . i Price Ceilings Lived on Merrill Floyd Lovell won't have to. That Caused Rout OK on Markups {their home in “the row” at 430 W, United Press Staff Correspondent “He had been terribly upset ion|fore we went to bed,” Mrs. Lovell nist troops drove nine miles break in th e freeze. 8 't| em Romain OE ATi > &ut water dunt On the eastern end of the d setti fixed ceilings on cof-|just a few hours after the couple Eo E of the 38th Parallel. ahead from Price Controller his retirement he had been em-| I straight day of efforts to drive means higher cotton prices. The The physicar ot General Hoss BE Ahad Saturday Officials said he probably will Clinic: said: he could make nol Fi tve Red batteringThe tong-waited “markup” eeil-: pet ET th : , the family was obtained, This 1s LONDON, Feb. 18 (UP) = week. : ish government opposes another tation in the United Nations, United Nations drive in the east imunists gained eight to nine miles and : te Fighting | that will mean increases in some Other Threats Reported | y {central front Monday night from Mr. DiSalle and Economic 8ta- lo" "00g Floyd Lovell west of Hoengsong. chance of preventing a further! “ ” : off at “the row” and Mr. Lovell two North Korean Corps into * . x mer time. But they hope they Grain for India the Red attack caved in a South
can hold the line after that. {gress today to authorize enough {Korean force fighting on its right
Wage Deadlock The Wage Stabilization Board, money to buy 2 million tons of! flank. 3 | The South Korean regiment
grain for famine-stricken India| o cut off north of Hoengsong.
The total program will cost an! phe Communists were follow|estimated $180 million. ing the tactics that brought them | “We cannot turn a deaf ear toivictory in northwest Korea last the President/NOvember. They struck only a few hours after South Korean troops had crossed the 38th Parallel on the east coast.
mula to replace the existing pay, freeze, goes back to work on the| blem tomorrow with something] new under consideration—a flex-|
wage rises to match the cost of! living increase since March 15, 1950. Labor members of the nine-
{India's |said. { He said that if the food crisis! {is not checked, the stability of; |India. might be threatened at aj Stab Beyond 38th {time when Communist aggression! They hit hardest at the South {has aggravated the crisis in Asia. Korean-held center of the line | Mr. Truman said that if Con- and broke through by sheer mass
appeal,”
The board got a new headache last night when the three major meat packing companies signed a
|gress approves the program, a
criminal law procedures and not] 1 Juvenile law. Kelly was 16 years| Andrew S210 his group would ap
. {prove it this afternoon for a “do old at the time of the slaying. |,aqg7 report inethe House to-| Examined Jurors
morrow. Prosecutor Watson conducted] "pe bill would
the examination of jurors, fre-|ggsn000 to finance a state-wide quently consulting with Mr. Neal.| (vil defense program. Of the
(Continued - on Page $—Col. 5) total appropriation only $150,000 Medical School and make recom-|
the Senate this afternoon.
IU Medical School |
appropriate setting up a five-member com-
Holdup Nets $85
Times State Service
WRANKLIN, Feb. 12—A pedes-|
trian was robbed of $85 early this be morning by two men armed with|tingency fund that could be spent {only in the event of an emer- | gency.
Rabies Control
revolvers. Oscar Sharp, Franklin, told police that the bandits, both wearing caps and overcoats, climbed out of an old model coupe and demanded his money. They
The resolution cited the
work in every county of the state./and urged the study with a view The remaining $500,000 would toward enlarging the school In “héld in trust” as a con-'the future.
Bonus Payment
The |pass this afternoon the House bill
drove away in the direction of townships of Indiana authority to disabled veterans and rela-
Indianapolis.
to impose quarantines for theltives of deceased veterans.
Times Cooking
$5000 in Gifts To Be Distributed
The Times’ Free Cooking School _ was the No. 1 item on the schedule of homemakers of Indianapolis and nearby areas today. The first session got under way at 1:30 p. m, in the Murat Theater. Tomorrow at 1:30 p. m. the second session opens, and on Wednesday two schools will be held at 9:30 a. m. and 8:15 p. m, The doors open 30 minutes before each session. $5000 in Gifts Gifts worth $5000 will be distributed. At every session a 1951 Philco electric range that ‘“broils under. glass” is the top award. Other gifts include hundreds of big shopping bags chock full of groceries, valuable merchandise awards and many of the com-pletely-cooked dishes prepared on the stage of the theater. The Times “Magic Meals" Cooking School is sponsored by the Radio Equipment Co. and Philco dealers: of Marion County.
An outstanding staff of na--
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Louise Fletcher, left, Times Woman's editor, looks over the | "Magic Meals" recipe book being given away at The Times Cook- [through the rear door.
ing School, with Mrs. Marie Daugherty, center, and Miss Laura Overley. Mrs. Daugherty conducts the school demonstrations and Miss §verley is one of her assistants. § R% o ’ ? ;
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would be available for spending mendations to the 1953 legisla-| L { {immediately to finance a -.f{ull- ture. f 30 Degrees Tonight ‘time staff to organize defense shortage of doctors in Indianal
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[anapoiis and central Indiana to- Pined hazards of heavy fog and| ® And Then Start to Kill
morpow following a day of light [rain and drizzling. Weather Bureau forecasters {said the day's wet, warm weather
that would provide for immediate wo u14 change A bill! giving counties and payment of the State GI bonus, ,jqep tu ouginess and
with. a high témperature of 34. {The mercury was scheduled to go |to 52 degrees this afternoon. Low| tonight will be 30 degrees.
weather. with snow flurries were predicted tomorrow. In northern areas tonight's lows were expect-| ed to reach 20 to 25 degrees with 26 to 30 lows in the south. Tomorrow’s highs were fixed at 2630 north and 32-35 south. Most of Hoosierland wallowed in an icy slush today as higher temperatures last night brought about a thaw. |
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6a m.. 47 10 a. m... 47 Tam. 1 lam. 41 8a m.. 48 12 (Noon) 48 9a m.. 4
Humidity at 11:30 a. m. 100%
Safe Containing $458 Stolen From Bakery
Burglars broke into the Roselyn | Bakery, 2425 E. 30th St., yesterday and took a safe containing $458, police were told today by Manager Jerry Boeldt, 30, of 4840
| Brookville Rd.
A camera and $30 in cash were taken - from the home of Ted. Lewis, 30, of 4901 E. 34th St., last night. . The burglars broke in No one {was home. i
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[haste Boapragt, ir Siiteud i 8! s ch. m or| BEES, Cova Food? Bpmons tor
raises of 9 cents an hour for 135,-
. {000 CIO United Packinghouse 0 er RA er Workers. The contract was made
The House passed a resolution {subject to approval by the board
by Mar. 25, and the unions threat-
mission to study the need tor J ened to strike if the board reexpanding Indiana University’s jects it.
Pilot's Landing Safe Despite Fog and Mud ,
Times State Service
RUSHVILLE, Feb. 12—Com-
deep mud in a thawing field failed to balk a nervy pilot here yesterday.
euvered his cabin plane and
ing a mile east of here after being enveloped in a dense fog. Ramon Walker of the Civil Afr
|Patrol of Rushville said the the g > § pas- | Throughout the state colderisengers were unhurt and the!
plane was undamaged.
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|special mission will be sent to 'India by the Economic Co-opera-{tion Administration to observe [the distribution of the grain and |help carry it out. The mission lalso would examine the possibili[ties of further aid.
‘Spring Old White Flag Trick—
‘Chinese Shake Gls’ Hands
‘Guy Leading Them Spoke English’ When Somebody Dropped a Grenade By JOE QUINN, United Press Staff Correspondent ON THE WESTERN FRONT, Korea, Feb. 12—Chinese Communists waving white flags came forward today, shook hands with Gls, and then started killing them. The old “white flag” trick had worked again, as the Reds rammed their new offensive into the United Nations lines,
of numbers regardless of soaring losses, : se The long-delayed Communikt counter-offensive struck down the mountainous center backbone of Korea while United Nations forces were stabbing five miles across the 38th Parallel on the
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| An American infantry and tank patfol a mile and a ‘half north
|of Hoengsong was halted by some - { Brides: No. 2 .ivvivsirieees 8 '60 Chinese waving the surrender| A Chinese walked up to Pfc. Department store tycoon J. C. flags and handkerchiefs. The Clayton and nudged hith with a Penney tells how his father [t4nks halted. Infantry moved up foot Then he went away. Ap- Was excommunicated from [to take prisoners. parently he thought the Ameri-| his church because he dared | “The guy leading them (the ®3D1 dead. to take exception to the pre|Chinese) spoke English,” said “When we got back to the tanks, judices of the period . . . Sgt. Clarence E. Catlett, 23, of °Wf boots were frozen to our feet| Chapter Two of an inspiring Leesburg, Va. “He shook hands and our clothes to our bodies,”| autobiography ........... 9 with my leutenant and said: Mr. Clayton said. |Ed Sovola captures the spirit ‘Friends.’ ” Mr. Clayton, Lt. Catlett, Sgt.| of today’s anniversary in a Lt. Perry H.:Davis, of Okla- Perry and the others told their| column reprinted by popular homa City, Okla., told the Chinese stories shivering and huddled| demand. ....... chusuaesvecn Il
around a stove in a medical clearing station. They said the Chinese swarmed into their ranks! “like fleas pouring out of the | mountains around us after the
to lay, down their arms. Lt. Catlett said this resulted in “some argument.” An expleding grenade ended the discussion. “One of the Chinese shook
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hands with one of my buddies and dropped a grenade behind him,” Lt. Catlett said. The tanks ‘buttoned up” — slamming their turret hatches shut —and opened fire with machine-| guns, while the Gls, outnumbered and with Chinese sub-machine-guns flaming in their faces, battled] pack to a small stream. Pfc. Carl R. Clayton, 17, of 2005 N. Caroline 8t., Indianapolis, | Ind., said he and two other sol|diers dropped into the stream, which had plenty. of broken ice
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fight started.” .
Lt. James 8S. Howden, 25, of] Manokin, Md. said: ‘It didn’t look right somehow,” when he first saw the Chinese coming toward them waving the white flags.
“After the grenade went off we.
gave 'em hell,” he said. | Tank Turns Over 1 Lt. Howden ordered his tanks to back up after two bazooka! rounds burst on the front armor plate of his tank. But Lt. Howden's tank turned over when it tried to avoid running over a GI|
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