Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 June 1951 — Page 1

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FORECAST: Mostly cloudy this afternoon. Clearing and a little coole tonight. Tomorrow mostly fair and a little warmer, Low tonight. 55,

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By ANDY OLOFSON and HEZE CLARK « A prominent Indianapolis engineer killed himself today after a bloody rampage in which he left his murdered wife at home and shot his son and grandson. The dead: Alvin C. Rasmussen, 61, of 5135 Central Ave., one of the first engineers licensed in Indianapolis. Mrs. Helen Wood Rasmussen, his wife, about 60, socially prominent clubwoman. The Rasmussens were related by marriage to Col. Daniel I. Glossbrenner, former Indianapolis mayoralty candidate and one of the organizers of the famed Rainbow division of World War I fame. He was a close friend of its commanding general, Robert Tyndall, former Mayor of Indianapolis. Mrs. Rasmussen's bloodied, slashed body lay in their fashionable home when Rasmussen drove to the home of his son-near Indian Lake,

— Times Phofos by Neary E. Geising J, and Bil Outs about 15 miles northeast of Indianapolis.

DEATH—AIlvin C. Rasmussen lies under blanket in rear of There he shot and wounded : : ‘Rainbow Lane house. James Rasmussen Sr., 31, his son, in ) a critical condition at Methodist Hospital with ° JAMIE RASMUSSEN-~Critically wounded. quares i bullet wounds in the chest and arm. He : LN. oo e. Has J is suffering shock. puilt-in A 2 James Rasmussen, his 5-year-old grandstatics i 4 son, critical at Billings VA Hospital with a nirols, ! bullet wounds in the neck and shoulder. A = Rasmussen abiney, “ ge SB sheriff's deputy quoted a docfor as saying he feared the boy, if he lives, may be paralyzed for life from the neck down. ; PLAN “wit SHOT- Shots Polich Det. M.. J Time #xamines bullet he ; 2 Wrestled Briefly : hole i in door glans, Bhp SEL Indianapolis police said the elder Rasmussen’ evidently BR Times Index: Sl : : killed his wife with a large knife and then drove to his son's _ & : 4 : home near Oaklandon about 8 a. m. Amiisemelte Vemeiay 4 . “He just came in and started shooting,” state police Baitorials oo... : were told at the son's home. Forum ....... = Lash Rasmussen entered the suburban home of his son, pointHarold H. Hartley... : ; ed his 38-caliber target revolver at his grandson and fired. fou a 4 : Erskine Johnson ... : ty : As the boy fell wounded, his mother rushed toward her oA Dan Kidney ........ 18 sr a : father-in-law and tried to stop him. dd : flo 8 Ruth Millet ....... Lk : They wrestled for a few moments. Then Rasmussen isi 3 : Jo Saynor Madax ....: 5 Po ; struck her over the head with the gun, State Police Detective

Frederick C, Othman 18 i} : sp M. J. Timme said. Mrs. Rasmussen staggered away in a daze. Pa as » a ; : The grandfather rushed out of the house and found Ed Sovola ATK coco 17 | Oe his son in the front yard. He fired two shots. Sports preusarasscn dl, 21,22 | § James Rasmussen, wounded and faint, staggered across BON avessnas 1 : ! the street and collapsed on the front lawn of a neighbor, LOCAL TEMPERATURES Thomas Lockhart. 6a m..62 10a m.. 64

Ta m..62 11a m.. 66 ] Reloaded, Killed Self

8 a m.. 68 12 (Noon) 64 9a m..68' 1p m.. 64 State police said the grandfather then pointed the gun

Latest humidity reads 81% BLOODY DOOR—A¢ 5135 Central Ave. home of Alvin at his head and pulled the trigger. But he missed and went JAMES RASMUSSEN shoal ‘ ur a. Rasmussen. into the back yard, where he reloaded the weapon and ee

Ylang ; ; fired into his head, state police said. He died instantly. [a3 hi Ri d hn of - : : In all, state police said, fives hots were fired. One off e eve e s aa

them went wild during the shooting inside the house.

Mr. Lockhart drove the boy to Billings and a Gers Least Triangle oo Bl " or 2

hr a . 4 Hospital ambulance took his father to Methodist. BLOODIED HAMMER— | | Rasmussen took up vigil at the bedside of her son. as T NOBERECHT Found eae body of Mrs. Alvin : : . : Another child, 8 months old, was in the house but was| ~~ TOKYO, Thursday, June 14—Red armies 1 ape 1 g 5 : Ba jl not hurt. are abandoning Pyonggang, last anchor of their shatte : State police, as a matter of routine, asked Indianapolis [ron Triangle, as part of a general withdrawal across Red Probe Ruled SE : : dg police to go to the Rasmussen home in Indianapolis. entire Korean front. : : ; The doors were locked. Gaining entry by pass key, | Two powerful Allied tank-infantry foro. por rt Ea : city detectives found the body of Mrs. Rasmussen lying|by planes, were driving on Pyonggang, 29 miles north. ut i Firing under a blanket in a hall between the living room and!the 38th Parallel, from Chor- - . " dining room. She was clad in a gray slip. ‘won and Kumhwa, southern ot his - Kong Of Welfare Aid : Her throat was slashed from ear to ear. Coroner R. B. ‘anchors of the triangle which use of their own i V Storms said death was caused by severance of a jugular already have fallen. in shambles rom new wy) ; vein. | Front dispatches said they raids.

Anuther story, Page 23 ‘SHOOTING SPREE—Home on Rainbow Lane where two Rasmussens were wounded and one Chief of Detectives Jack O'Neal, who took charge of Were meeting no significant NE cron

By DONNA MIKELS : tan ¥ | killed the investigation at the Alvin Rasmussen home, said the ®s'ance. ‘buildings Yestaragy The State Personnel Board to- tl tab hil | It was believed possible here woman apparently was stabbed while in bed.

} day ruled the so-called “subver- ’ | . : that a United Nations patrol sive” investigation in the State|[N® ‘ | waters Deparment was no ree D1 S0IE f0 Order Clothing Rollback tains or dently struggled free and made her way down: might alreudy. have entered the vant in the appeal hearing of a stairs in an effort to get to the telephone. A bloody palm |ruined city of Pyonggang. discharged welfare official. By United Press meanwhile, said they are investi-|to find out if the cattlemen have print was found on the wall alongside:the phone. | Allied advances of one to nearly; TO LIFT The board sustained the objec-| WASHINGTON, June 13--Price|gating black market charges been striking against the public. | A trail of blood Jed from the upstairs bedroom to the [three miles were recorded yester-! tion of deputy attorney generals|Chief Machiel V. DiSalle, un- against “several pretty big” mem-| Abnears: Doomed hall, and other st f day. y kind of representing the Welfare Depart-/daunted by ‘the furor over’ his bers of the beef industry. | Ppe all, and other stains were found in the living room, dining Swarms of Allied planes roared oncealed ment to injecting the subversiveDeef price rollback, disclosed to-| pt (nev ‘made it clear’ that! A suggestea compromise for A poom and kitchen. {out ahead of the United Nations i investigation into the appeal hear-/day that a. similar rollback in they do not know whether investi-| OD YeAr “as is" extension of| Paul Buchanan, president of Flanner & Buch spearheads and smashed at heavplays on ing of George L. Diven, fired as/clothing prices is due “in a day do not . St controls appeared doomed in the P anner uchanan Mor- yy camouflaged Red columns ined bat- director of staff services Apr. 19,/0T 80. gations will bear out the charges. . = = (0 bers of the Senate TUATY; Said he visited the elder Rasmussens last night and trying to escape north over high9h The deputies contended the in- i announesd during a visit to, They also. disclosed that they Banking Committee opposed it—|that they “seemed happy and congenial.” (ways and through mountain vestigation had no bearing on/Denver that a price order fori, ,.. to turn over to the Justice! & PPO {passes. The rain of steel and ex-! clothing manufacturers will be jeither because they favored the Neighbors, who reported the 1 1 whether or not Mr. Diven was 8 . g ’ Po couple normally was|iosives killed hundreds of en guilty of insubordination and in.[188ued covering all forms of wear. Department “within the next few| President's stronger two-year Pro-iha noticed that Rasmussen seemed “curt and irritable” troops. n omy eMelency, the charges for which|In8 Apparel. days quite a number” of cases in-|posal, or thought even a one-year 2PPY) ed “curt and irritable” troops. 5:15. be was Bred. Based on pre-Korean prices, (VOIVing illegal slaughtering of extension is much too long. ithe past few days. | No Man's. Land

May Puncture Defense _ |with mark-ups for increased labor beef. | ‘Despite official denials, reliable | i» Pyonggang, last and northern

insisted that consumer This ruling might punct {and materials costs, the order, he The officials said the big cases Sources nce Divers win ight oa a. said, should result in an. eventual|involve allegations amounting to credit controls soon will be ve In 1 H eal th for Year impregnate JF the ehemys Shee

was fired because he opposed price cut at retail stores. : “black market Sperations in £m 30 make it easier lo. buy Mrs. Rasmussen lay on a Turkish rug in the expensively | triangle, " was virtually no-man’s-] Cominunist elements in the de- " Watch Black Marks : ee Y pather a /ing machines, refrigerators and furnished home. {land within easy range of Allied partme ¥. e was “very happy” imilar good i oodi [guns and under ceaseless poundiy the Welfare Depart-|about the bigger shipments .of| They hinted that the charges * Dollar. Dont ceilings were | In the kitchen, police found a. bloodied hammer. The {ing from the air. ment bolstered its charges of in-|cattle to market which some ex-|Involve upgrading of beef, dis-| dered for five more canned veg- coroner said the hammer may not have been used in the| Capture of Pyonggang would

effclency and insubordination by Perts interpreted as a victory for|™Uption of “normal channels offeiapies—new potatoes and rhu- murder because no evidence of blows was found on the dead Put the hard-driving 8th Army

evidence that Mr. Diven made a the price chief. They said cattle- distribution, >and tie-in sales. barb, broccoli and Brussels astride the main highway to f $200,000 error in the department's Men apparently have decided that| The jojnt Congressional watch- sprouts produced in the ‘west, a | woman's head. He said the hammer may have been bloodied least coast port hi va 55 oe 1050 budget. he Det. Jollbacks will, Stek and dog Souiittee on economic con- fresh field peas raised in the by Rasmussen after the slaying. [miles farther north and probable Maurice O. Hunt, the state wel- ope for gfer trols called in meat packers, cat-' south. Officials said the order ' {hi of the next Communist Ba AREE {prices later, [tlemen and possibly some feeders would have “very little effect” on 4 large knife was found in Rasmussen's car, but it Es a

fense line, } 4 ores i Continned on Page 3—Col. 8 | Price enforcement oMcials| for & session tonight as it tried the housewife's budget. Continued on Page 2 Col. 3 > It also would deprive the . ——— . I > y ¥ A - & 5 : 2