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up theory that it will reduce juvenile

conditions are even worse

concensus of all experts in| the problem of juvenile delin-

that progress only can when parents realize

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rearing successful children— at the sure way to grief and family tra is mishandling their children.

State Crashes Kill Two, Including City Resident

delinquency is not solving any-

test success in life lies

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‘The Whole Field Caught Fire, Witness Reports

By R. K. SHULL

Two persons, one from Indianapolis, were killed in state traf- : fie accidents during the night. ‘Dead are: Jimmy McDonald, 27, of 910 8. Illinois St. or Annas Kays, 69, Princen.

The car driven by Mr. McDonald early today sideswiped a tank truck. driven by William Wright, R. R. 1, Sullivan, on Ind. 57 near Elnora. Riding with Mr. McDonald, and treated and released from Washington Hospital with minor injuries were his © wife, Virginia, 25; his daughter, Barbara, 2, and his mother-in-law, Mrs. Doris White. Mrs, Kays was killed when her husband lost control of his car on U. 8. 41 near Patoka, Ind. and drove into a ditch last night. Her husband, Harlan, was uninJured. :

Services will be at 1 p. m, Monday in the Scott Methodist Church for Mrs. Mary Warfield, gctive church and club worker. rial be in Crown Hill. Mrs. Warfield died Thursday in her home, 2121 Columbia Ave. She was 79. Born in Kenfucky, Mrs. Farfield had lived here 60 years. She was a ber of the Scott Methodist , State Sisters of Charity, 's Auxiliary of the Amer‘fos Tegion She is survived by a son, Robert Johnson, Indianapolis, and a foster daughter, Mrs. Margaret Livingston, Cincinnati.

Mrs. Angeline Mitchell

Times Starr Writer

cled twice over the woods by the plant, then the plane exploded. There weren't any big chunks of the plane left.” Jack Rodeffer, employment

manager of the Perfect Circle {Piston Ring Co. at Richmond,

his office when he felt the cement floor shake. plant and:

hole. Saw Something Fall

ploded, I saw something drop off. |

“After I got off work, I went back in the woods to where I

|thought this piece fell. It was the

canopy to the cockpit. I guess the

the plane exploded.” { It was near the Perfect Circle] plant that two jets crashed to! the ground, killing both pilots. | Over near Mooreland, Mrs.

|was interviewing an employee ini

He ran out of the

“1 saw the whole fleld across the way was on fire, I thought a plane had dropped a bomb or jet. tisoned a tank. I ran over to tha field with some of the boys, but¥ there was nothing there but a big

“Then one of the fellows looked; up ‘and sald, there's another one.!

| : This other jet ircling low | 3 % aver tne woos. un store or RACket Tax Delinquents

RICHMOND, June 9—“He cir- §

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FATAL DEBRIS--Spectators and a volunteer fire crew stand by the wreckage of a Thunderjet in which the pilot was killed. pleded and crashed near Mooreland, Ind.

It ex-

EMERGENCY AID—A helicopter from Wright-Patterson Field in Dayton, O., stands by to re-

Eye Loophole

By DAVID WATSON |

A loophole in the federal drivejtrate on gamblers, vice-house op-§ pilot was trying to get out when, canst tax evaders was eyed to- erators and other racketeers. i

day by underworld delinquents.

It was the “voluntary disclos- Robert Nelson, state intelligence ure” policy of the Treasury De-|chijef who will head intelligence

partment. i In the past, if no action had,

Bernice Houser was working inipeen started in a case by the gov-|

her farm home.

“I heard an awful explosion.

she said, “I thought my house was on fire, and I ran to a window. I saw the wreck of the

and the Silver Thread plane burning in the tomato

field about 75 feet away. . Called Doctor

“I called a doctor as quick as I could, then ran out there. I

think the pilot was already dead. |

My daughter and son-in-law ran

Services and burial will be in up to the wreck with me. We

Blossburg, Pa., Monday for Mrs. Mary Mitchell, who died yesterday in her home, 928 Eng“lish Ave. Friends may call at the Harry W. Moore Peace Chapel until 9:30 t.

: in Blossburg, Mrs. Mitchell came to Indianapolis 10 years ago. She was a member of Holy Cross Catholic Church.

Surviving are a son, James W., witnessed by Jack Rodeffer, comes Bronxville, N. Y.; a sister, Mrs. from Mrs. Fred Musser, whose!

Belle Johnson, Indianapolis, and a brother, Raymond Birriolo, Blossburg.

Mrs. Pearl Dickerson

Burial in Crown Hill will follow services at Jacobs Brothers’ West Side Chapel at 1p. m, Tuesdy for Mrs. Pearl Dickerson. Mrs. Dickerson died Thursday in her home, 456 W. 17th St. She was 60, Born in Glasgow, Ky., she came to Indianapolis 48 years ago. She was a member of Phillips Temple CME Church. +Burviving are a brother, George Cooney, Detroit; two nieces, Mrs. Melinda Willlams and Mrs. Eu-

genia Taylor and a nephew, Wil- ‘miraculous escape of her family

liam Cooney, all of Indianapolis.

: Volunteer Firemen End Parley With Parade

Ind., June 9 (UP)— Fire trucks and floats from 20 communities formed a parade today as the Indiana Industrial and Volunteer Firemen’s Association ended a two-day convention here.

Alex Hoagland, state fire marshal, addressed some 300 dele-! gates after a high-pressure water battle staged by opposing fire de-|

MODERNIZERS

2624 N. HARDING

were the first ones there. “The plane was all on fire, and there was nothing we could do. The volunteer firemen from Mooreland and Blountville came

lover and put out the fire, but!

/there was nothing you could do ifor the pilot. | “We were lucky. None of the wreckage hit our house,” she said.

| Another account of the crashes

{home was showered with the {wreckage of one of the planes,

| Like. Thunder Clap

Mrs. Musser was at home with her five children when she heard ithe roar of the planes, then a noise like a loud thunder clap. She ran outside in time to see a jet plane crash near. the Perfect Circle plant. While she {watched the plane burning on the ground, a second plane exploded | (the ‘same one mentioned by Mr. | Rodeffer) over her house, then crashed into the woods across the way. Suffering from shock, Mrs. {Musser Is still marveling at the

{from the flying debris of the seciond plane which fell around her | home.

Robert Helms Services Arranged

ernment, the delinquent was al-|

{his past due taxes plus any of the| {penalties and assessments.

lottery operators here have ex-| pressed a fatalistic attitude toward the planned investigations. | “What else can happen?” they jasked. ‘Forced to Play Straight’ {| The contention was the Treas{ury sleuths have had them under {scrutiny for such long periods that imost have been “forced to play iit straight” on the income tax returns. : One major operator ‘poohpoohed” racket squad plans and

in Drive

The federal squads will concen- | In charge in Indiana are A.|

activities in Indiana, and Robert E. Wilson, Internal Revenue agent. Started Year Ago

t lear himself b aying| / ; lowed te Cia ye Mr. Plummer said the Treasury @

{Department started laying tne Some of the known bookies and| groundwork for the dgive a year

ago. Final touches were put on th plan with the culmination of the Kefauver Senate Committee in-| vestigations. Many of the names; listed for use by the racket squads were compiled by Kefauver inves-| tigators. | Mr. Plummer said squads will be based in Indianapolis, Gary, Terre Haute, Muncie, New Albany, | Ft. Wayne, South Bend and La-| fayette. :

labeled reports “scare stories.” | The federal drive against under-| {world tax chiselers throughout the {state was touched off by the In-| ternal Revenue Bureau here yea.) Ralph W. Cripe, Indiana col-|

tors will come the activities of] bookies, professional gamblers, bootleggers, narcotics peddlers,

extortionists, blackmailers, abor-|

tionists, operators of brothels, | Moonraker was crippled in a

handbook operators, numbers and

|racketeers have been listed for operators.

! investigation. About 1300 agents have been assigned to the {racket-busting drive in state. Assistant Collector Wilbur O. Plummer said investigation {diana cities, including Indianjapolis “and will blanket

in Illinois and Wisconsin.

special federal

Several Agencies to Ald | The racket squads will be comjernment

| cies. I

law-enforcement agen-

{the alcohol tax

}

move the injured pilot from one of the Thunderjets which crash-landed near Richmond.

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SURVIVOR — Capt. Bryce crash-landed his plane near Straughn, then walked away. "Engine explosion,” and not the weather, was his reason for the crash, he said.

Under the eyes of the investiga- Waves Sweep Schooner

Ashore; Crew Is Saved

three| posed of agents from several gov-| bridge,

| state from those headquarters nue and Treasury agents. None at posts. A similar campaign opened will be taken from the Secret| Technology.

i Service and Narcotics Bureaus. |

Here's New Angle, Woman Struck By Pedestrian

Charges Denied By Rep. Irving

| KANSAS CITY, Mo, June 9

| from Marblehead, Mass. to An-| napolis, Md., when her auxiliary 1945, said in part: !

BRIGANTINE, N. J, June 9 (UP) ~ The 45-foot schooner

lector of internal revenue, said policy racketeers, confidence men, | storm two miles at sea last night {more than 400 names of Indiana and slot-machine and Pune)

but was swept ashore by giant waves before a coast guard vessel

{ could reach her.

Capt, John Lamarsch, CamMass,, skipper of the schooner, and his three crewmen

| waded ashore here safely. “The | These would be the intelligence| crewmen were C. M. Clay, Au{squads will be based in eight In-| unit of the Treasury Department, gusta, Ga.; Harry King, East Livinvestigators, | erpool, O., and Walther Tannenthe deputy collectors of internal reve- berg, Batavia, N. Y., all students Institute of |

Massachusetts

The schooner was en route

engine failed in a storm.

Held for Arraignment

{(UP)—Rep. Leonard Irving, Here in Embezzling

Democrat, who represents Presi-|

A former official of an em-

| LOOK out for low-flying pedes- dent Truman's home district in! ployee credit union in Richmond

Services will be in the Bethel ‘ans.

AME church at 1 p. m. Monday!

Miss. Somara A. Pruden, 78,

the House, today denied a U. 8. was held today for arraignment that he here,

grand jury's charges

accused of embezzling

(for Robert Helms, a waiter at the who is staying with relatives at'made improper use of the funds about $3000 from accumulated

will be in Crown Hill.

General Hospital. He was 69.

Mr. Helms died Thursday at

{Hotel Lincoln for 10 years. Burial!1040 W. 424 St., was standing at

the corner of Washington and

Illinois Sts. yesterday when a night from Washington, said he Was remanded to Marion County]

Born in Owensboro, Ky., he had pedestrian was hurtled a few feet was not jail under $2500 bond after waiv-|

resided in Indianapolis 47 years. in the air and knocked her to

He lived at 450 Blake St.

{ church.

| vivor.

Bitter—

NASHVILLE, Tenn. June 9 (UP)—Police Chief Ed Burgess is fed up with members of his police force who

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fail to appear in court to prosecute the persons they arrest. Said Chief Burgess: “I'll put up a notice tonight that those who do not appear in court will be given a dose of castor oil.” :

Say it with . . .

Mr. {Helms was a member of Trinity {Masonic Lodge and Bethel AME

Detective Claude White, Indian-| lapolis, a cousin, is the only sur-'38, of 956 English Ave.

{the ground. : She complained of a leg injury, {but refused treatment.

The, pedestrian, Cornie Cromer, was [struck by the side mirror on a

of a union he heads.

Rep. Irving, who arrived last

guilty of the indictment

funds of fellow workers. John Conrad, 36, Richmond,

ing a hearing before a United

and had not the slightest fear of States commissioner.

conviction,

| He is president’ and business! shal

representative of Local 264, AFL Construction and General La|borers Union.

Rep. Irving said he would ap-|;

| over a long period at Aluminum declared any such inference was

truck driven by James Estrone, Pear in court Monday and would |

124, of 1148 Groff Ave. Mr. Cromer {was uninjured,

{ | i

Flood Project oK'd

A $575,000 flood control in the New Albany, Ind. area was approved yesterday by the House Appropriations Committee as part of an Army civil functions bill on rivers, harbors and

flood control. $4 00 ho

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Assistant U. 8. Attorney MarHanley said the thefts charged to Conrad took place

Seal Co. in Richmond.

In Other Crashes

i | Tex.,

Jet Disaster Cause Leans to Sabotage

Continued From Page One

plane which drove itself ints the Rome, a foreign office The Rome telegram was sent in the name

ground.

sy opurt= . 3 1 Missing Diplomat’s Wire Traced to Rome

SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1051

One of three telegrams ostensibly sent by two missing

British diplomats to their families in England came fram spokesman said in London today.

of Guy

An irrigation tile, broken when pn, ,.o0cs 40, 4 Far Eastern expert formerly assigned to

the plane entered the ground

flooaded the hole, estimated at 10 the British embassy in Washington, to 15 feet deep. Mud hampered 5 pologized for his “silence” land said he was ‘“‘embarking on a holiday.

the salvage crew. Two bus loads of Air Force per-| sonnel were driven in to dig out} the hole, but were unable to make progress, The workmen are now|

dredging the hole with a drag|,,.

line. if

The crashes were within a

score of miles from New Lisbon, placed French official ruled that in Henry County, where a test two telegrams sent from Paris in

transport plane from Wright-Pat-|t terson crashed on May 28. Seven men were killed in that crash.

Make Brief Statements The surviving pilots of the|

diplomat—Donald D. MacLean, |38, head of the American section gate Ernest A. Gross. It consti. ‘of the foreign office—was not tuted this country’s interim reply

| written by an Anglo-Saxon.

long Mediterranean

The original of the telegram, ecovered in Rome, was not in

oreign office spokesman said. At the same time, a highly-

he name of the other missing

Burgess’ handwriting, the)

to his mother. It

“Korea” erupts in the North Atlantic Pact area. But the United States at the moment is shying away from definite commitment of specific troop units for any future United Nations action against aggression. : American policy on earmarking troops for United Nations use was spelled out yesterday in a letter sent to United Nations SecretaryGeneral Trygve Lie by U. 8. Dele-

One telegram sent in Mr. Mac-

downed ships made only briefi1ean’s name informed his Amer-| statements to police before Alri jcan-born wife he “had to leave units that would be on call for fu-

Force officers arrived from Day- unexpectedly.” The other, to his

ton and clamped tight security|mother, said that he “was quite

over them and the crash scenes. The flight had taken off from Wright-Patterson in good flying |

weather only minutes before It! telegrams were

“collided head-on” with the storm |

jan right” and told her not to fworry about him.

First reports had said all three sent from Paris. a Conservative

In London,

over Richmond, which is 45 miles | omper of Parliament, Bernard

from Dayton.

{to the request of last fall's Genferal Assembly that all United Na{tions members designate armed

|ture United Nations resistance to aggression. | Observers here felt the Ameri {can statement was framed in non« {committal terms to keep from {starting a new squabble over {troop assignments such as the re{cent congressional debate on the

Braine, demanded today that the troops-for-Europe issue. The ex-

They flew low over the city in government overhaul its security pectation was that President Tru-

flights of 36 and 34 each, the gystem and purge all

Commu-

roar of their engines shaking the nists and ex-Communists as the ! buildings and startling residents. result of the disappearance of before committing specific forces

Seconds later, the eight planes t were down in a series of crashes that caused residents to jam po-

wo key British diplomats. *

lice switchboards in fear the Atlantic Pact

town was being bombed. | Wayne County Sheriff Ora Wil-| son said one survivor told him he

IN LONDON, Gen. Omar Brad-

ley urged the United States and

saw “at least two planes collide all other Atlantic Pact coun-

in the air.” Sheriff Wilson him-t

ries today to speed up their re-

self said he saw several of the/armament programs because “we planes “all ganged up together don't know how much time we

while in flight.

At Least 8 Dead

| By United Press t

in a series of crashes involving military planes in this countryic and abroad.

where crashed and exploded 10 minutes's after takeoff. There were no survivors.

buquerque, N. Mex.; when a Navy ¢

to parachute. Another flier was killed near Bagdad, Ariz, Shooting Star jet fighter: went into a spin, crashed and burned. Air Force headquarters

Wiesbaden, Germany,

since yesterday noon on a routine ! training mission. being made for the two pilots.

slightly. Meanwhile, the wreckage of a

Blue Lake, Colo.

{ourselves in that®

have.”

f the U. 8. Pa Shaliman de his plea Korean War ends, the government

(at ference following| ll press rie and French which the U. 8. could maintain

{defense officials.

He said he was not satisfied

He also said he U. 8. always had hoped that

At least eight American fliers other United Nations would find besides the three killed over In-1g way to send more troops to diana were dead or missing today Korea.

Gen. Bradley denied emphatially that he brought a new

| American cease-fire formula for A death toll of three was re- Korea to his talks with British corded yesterday near Lubbock, Defense Minister Emanuel Shina B-25 bomber well and the British chiefs of

taff. Meanwhile, 16 American con-

|gressmen from three House com-/_, —_——ma—— Two men were killed near Al- mittees arrived here by air today Siamese Twins Die

rom Washington for an inspec-

attack bomber crashed. Clayton'tion four of Western Europe's Shepard, a civilian employee of gefenses. They were met at Orly North American Aviation, which Airport by Atlantic Aymy Commade the plane, was the‘ only anger Gen. Dwight D. Eisen-

survivor. He said the plane's en- r and other high-rank § |gines caught fire and he was told Howe officials in rE ing

when his F-80 Germany

A YUGOSLAV pilot said today

at a fire caused by a hidden incendireported ary bomb aboard his airliner two F-84 Thunderjets missing forced him to make an emergency

anding in Germany two minutes

A search was before the plane blew up.

George Allen Jr., 15, son of the

A Navy F-6-F fighter plane U. 8. Ambassador to Yugoslavia, crashed last night near Wellers- and 18 other persons aboard burg, Pa. but the pilot para-clambered out of the plane to chuted.. He was injured only safety before it exploded yesterday.

The pilot, Majcem Branivoj,

twin-engined Army training plane said the bomb, hidden ih the lugwas uncovered a short distance gage compartment, off shore in the sandy bottom of cabin, near Las Animas, like a Roman candle” about an It was believed to have hour after the plane left Frank-

behind his

started ‘spewing flames

crashed seven years ago with two furt en route to Belgrade.

to six men aboard.

‘Marshall Mission

A spokesman for the Yugoslav economic mission in , engine trouble caused the explo-| (sion.

Bonn said

U. 8. counter-intelligence

| ts immediately be i ‘Blundered’—Mac vestiguon. ately began an in

i Continued From Page One

[nese factions. Read by Acheson {| On Wednesday, a 1945 tele-|

{gram was read by State Secre-

Mrs Branijov said he headed

ifor an open field in north Bavaria| his mission to unify warring Chi- near the town of Aichach as soon jas he detected smoke inside the ‘plane,

{tary Dean Acheson to the senate United Ndtions

{committee investigating Gen.

{to bring Chinese ments together. The telegram, dated June 7,

| “It is suggested that the United! {States assistance to China, as outlined above, be made available as a basis for negotiation by the! {American ambassador to bring! {together and effect a compromise, between the major opposing groups in order to promote a unified, democratic China.”

A Lie, Doug Declares

Sen. Knowland in a telegram to Gen. MacArthur in New York |said the 1045 message “implies! [that you favored a coalition gov-| ernment between Chinese Com-| munists and Republic of China.”|

i i THE AMERICAN forces that {MacArthur's ouster which quoted wij] gerve under Gen. Dwight D. him and Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wede-| miganhower meyer and Adm. Raymond Spru- tjcreted today for possible assign- | ance as proposing U. 8. efforts ment to an over-all United Napolitical ele- tions campaign in case another

CHECK YOUR WATCH!

FINAL

Europe were

|man eventually would seek some sort of agreement with Congress

for future United Nations cam(paigns. {| The U. 8. letter listed the Amer{ican ground, naval and Air Forces {now fighting in Korea and said {this country “regards the mainteInance of these forces as fulfill {ment at this time of the purposes of the recommendations of the |General Assembly in the uniting {for peace resolution.”

The letter said that, after the

would review the “extent” to troops on call for United Nations

action.

Italy

ROME POLICE said today they had uncovered an apparent plot to assassinate Italian President Luigi Einaudi and the nation's top military leaders at a parade last week.

Four unexploded bombs were found under the stands on which the officials reviewed the troops on the fifth anniversary of the | Italian republic.

TORRINGTON, Conn., June 9 (UP) — Torrington’s Siamese Twins died last night. The 7-day-old girls were born joined at the chest and with one heart. Their mother, Mrs. Robert Litchfield, is still in a hospital. Her condition is good.

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