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DANA, Ind., July:26—The Lord sent for Will Pyle last night. He told him his mansion was ready.

He took him to the reunion that Mr. Pyle had long awaited with his wife Marie and his son Ernest. :

Death came quietly, gently to the 83-year-old father of Ernie Pyle, war correspondent who was killed by a Jap machine gunner at Ie Shima in April 1945. He died in Vermilion County (Clinton) Hospital where he was taken seven days ago after he suffered a paralytic strike at the Pyle home,

Now only Aunt Mary Bales, sister of Marie, is left in the old Pyle homestead on a farm outside Dana. She is 85.

“Aunt Mary” was at Will Pyle’s bedside when the end came. Mr. Pyle was ‘a member of Dana Masonic Lodge, Order of Eastern Star and the Bono Methodist Church. Services will be at the Bono church, which is about three

miles south of Dana, at 2:30 p. m, 4

Saturday. Masonic rites will precede burial in Bono Cemetery. Friends may call at the Kersey Funeral Home in Dana until 1:30 p. m. Saturday. Surviving are three nephews and six nieces. Uncle Will, as they called him at Dana, was ready. He had been failing ever since the day they told him over the telephone that Ernie had been killed. From that day, the joy in his heart because he was FKrnie's father had been replaced by sadness. For the last two years he had been blind. In recent months, Mr. Pyle had been weary. He ‘heard” the voices of Marie and Ernest calling. been spared. vhis long?” n on » THEN AUNT MARY would call In their good friend and neighbor

from the next farm, Mrs. Ella

Goforth, with whom Uncle Will loved to talk. “Congole him, Ella,” Aunt Mary would say. And Ella would tell him: “Don’t be discouraged, Will, Your mansion isn’t finished yet. The Lord knows what He is doing. He aims for you to do something else on this earth. He isn't ready yet because you haven't sent over enough material to finish your mansion. “And think of the grand reunion, you're going to have some day with Ernest and Marie. You really should be happy instead of sad, Will” Then Uncle Will would brighten up and say:

“Yes, Ella, you're right. Pve § been waiting to see Marie and §

Ernest again.” = ” »

THERE NEVER was a happier man than Will Pyle when Ernie became a famous war correspondent, It wasn't pride so much as it was delight. He was amazed but delighted when Ernie wrote about him. He couldn't understand why people liked to read about Ernie's family tucked away on the little farm along the country road in Vermillion County, Indiana. He liked such little things as this, written by Ernie on Apr. 16, 1941, after his mother’s death...

“Now the days of reconstruction have come to our house. Lives formed to a pattern in a long, almost timeless routine must be adjusted to a new design. The first convulgion of grief shades away into the greater trial of lonesomeness and tearing down comfortable cycles. “But we are all being sensible. The other night Aunt Mary and I were talking, and she said that she had asked my father what he was going to do, and he had said to wait till I came.

“But he needn't have, For I don't believe in children running their parents’ business. I decided to do nothing except find out what he really wanted to do, and then agree with him, “So one afternoon we looked all through the new smoke-

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REUNION—His mansion ready, Will Pyle joined his wife, Marie, and his son Ernest.

WILL HELPED OUT—Canning chicken was one of "Uncle Will's" favorite tasks before blindness made it impossible for him

to assist "Aunt Mary" Bales.

FAREWELL TO ERNIE—"Uncle Will" Pyle bid Ernie God-

speed in 1941 when the famed war correspondent started on a

reportorial junket to Europe.

house he built last fall, and then he got a bucketful of corn to feed the ¢hickens, and some-

| how just as he got to the

chicken-yard gate we got to talking about it, and he asked me what I felt he should do. » » ~

“AND I said: ‘Why, I haven't

the remotest idea. What do you think you'd like to do?”

“And he said: ‘Well, IT think I'd rather just stay right here. This is our home, and all our friends are here. 1 probably wouldn't be happy anywhere else.

“And I said: ‘That's what I had hoped you would say. You can keep one cow and a few chickens so you'll have something to do. And you can take a trip once in a while’ “And he said: ‘I was thinking of that. Clarence wants me to come to New Mexico for a little vigit. I could go on the bus and it wouldn't cost much.’ “Once in a while I think it's all right for children to butt into their parents’ affairs, . He thinks he’s going on the bus; but he isn't, He doesn't know it until he reads this, but he’s Rk airplane, He's n for years to take a

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“AFTER THAT I went back to the house and Mary what my father had said, and you could see/the pleasure | in her face and she said: | I'm so glad. I think that's what | we both ought to do. We're

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Some Fun

DENVER, July 268 (UP) British Consul Brian H. Heddy said today ‘‘the police did jolly well.” But the police gave him a lot of credit. A holdup man, identified as William H. Wisecarver, 21, Elk City, Okla., pulled a gun on Mr. Heddy and made off with his wallet. Then he fled. Mr. Heddy followed, shouting “Stop him, He's got a gun. He's got my wallet.” : A policeman afd Mr. Heddy caught the gunman in an office building.

“1 quite enjoyed it,” Mr." ‘Heddy said. “At least after ‘he no longer pointed that .

THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1951

Ernie Pyle’s Dad Dies at 83

Roscoe Blackburn, 49, father of

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Head-On Crash

Kills Six Men

20 Children Lose Dads In Car-Truck Collision

Times State Services ELWOOD, July 26 -- Twenty children were fatherless here today as a result of Indiana's second worst single traffic accident in recent years. A dozen persons died in a cartruck crash Sept. 20, 1948, in La Porte County. In other recent accidents with heavy fatalities six persons were

INDIANAPOLIS TRAFFIC CASUALTIES (206 DAYS) 1950 1951 Accidents .... 4601 4494 Injured ....... 1672 1933 Killed ....... 39 36

County, and another half-dozen died in a collision Nov. 3, 1950, in Noble County.

Six Elwood fathers were killed when their car was crushed bv a truck in a head-on collision 5 1/2 miles south of here on Ind. 37 last

night.

They were going to work at

Anderson where they all worked in the paint department of the

Guide Lamp Division of General Motors Corp. Two of the victims also were grandfathers. Dead: Charles E. Stewart, 58 father of four and grandfather of six. Lazo Mitroff, 62, father of six. Frank Simmons, 34, father of | two and grandfather of three. Charles. E. Rebuck, 48, father of three. John W. Leer, 39, father of three.

two, Truck driver Wendell G. White, 32, Bluffton, the father of three children, was not injured. State police said the Elwood men were en route to their 4 p. m. shift. Mr. Stewart and Mr. Leer,

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The ‘Little Atom'—

New Toy Pistols

Those new Tom Thumb-sized steel pistols popping up around town pack a lot of wallop.

That's the belief of police, who moved today to outlaw their sale

Only an inch and a half long, the tiny gun fires pinhead-size cartridges which make a jumbo bang. Just the thing for kids? Not so, says Police Inspector J. Richard Jacob. Carelessly handled, he warned, they could result in painful injury—and even put out an eye, Advertised as the “Little Atom, world's smallest pistol,” the gun fires wadding and powder for short distances. It has enough

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return to the screen in a film that writer Virginia Van Upp is keep-

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FORECAST; Fair tonight. Partly cloudy, warm and humid tomorrow and Saturday. Low. tonight 63. High tomorrow. 90,

'This Is a Dangerous Condition'—

: Birth Certificates

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Forged for Drinking Teens, Officials Say

By JOSEPH ALLISON

A dangerous flareup in forged birth certificates enabling teen-agers to buy liquor brought swift action

State Board of Health

Robert Yoho, director of statistics of the health board,

said a change in issuing certificates would be made immedi-

ately.

Meanwhile, three girls

violating the 1935 Beverage Act. Excise police discovered them in a downtown Indianapolis tavern with forged certificates, C. B. France, state excise police chief, reported.

“This is a dangerous condition and should be cleared up at once,” Chief France declared.

Expertly Altered One of the forged certificates was expertly altered, excise police officer Robert Gasper reported. Examination of the document

by state police technicians re-

vealed ink eradicator had been used to alter the certificate, he said.

State Police Sgt. Edwin Schroeder, handwriting and document expert, declared the altering was “well done” but “obviously” forged.

Sgt. Schroeder tested the certificates under ultra-violet light which revealed the original figures.

It first was suspicioned that an employee of the health board had issued a fraudulent certificate, Mr. Gasper said, when records revealed that such a case was uncovered last year,

In that instance, he said, it was

discovered that an employee was

issuing certificates to her friends so they could buy alcoholic beverages.

New Methods Studied

Mr. Yoho said the employee was discharged immediately and a close watch has been kept since that time.

At least two new methods of issuing certificates are under

study, Mr. Yoho said.

One method involves the use of a special paper which discolors if altered. The second system would require special typewriters or perforating machines. More than 3000 birth certificate copies are issued each month, the health board said. Of these, about half are written in ink and half are typed. Both methods fail to protect the certificate from alteration, Mr. Yoho admitted.

4 Cases Reported

Chief France reported the flareup in forged certificates started about two weeks ago. Four cases have been reported in the Indianapolis area alone, he said. The excise police boss said the certificates do not protect the tavern owner in cases of liquor sales to minors. He pointed to a recent bulletin of the Alcoholic Beverage Commission which declared the tavern proprietor was responsible in all cases, “If the customer is young enough to raise a doubt in the tavern keeper's mind,” Mr. France

said, “then he is too young to buy

a drink.”

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power to penetrate flesh a quar-ter-inch. This was proved by firing it into a piece of meat which a doetor =aid had the consistency of flesh. : At least two downtown novelty stores sell the shiny pistols for $195, including 12 blank cartridges. Sets are imported from Japan. Inspector Jacob pointed to a 1905 state law which prohibits the sale of toy pistols in Indiana, It carries a penalty of 10 to 30 days

{in jail and a fine of $10 to $50.

“I'm going to acquaint the downtown officers with the law

Memphis Man Burned Although no injuries from the tiny guns have been reported here, careless Handling by a Memphis man resulted in a badly burned finger recently. :

a hole in one finger. He was unable to sleep for a week from the throbbing pain. And it cost him

$45 In doctor bills.

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buy beer in a downtown tavern. Identified by Pictures— Plymouth Sex Parties Lea

6 Girls and 9 Boys in Court [0 Build Wing

By United Press PLYMOUTH, July 26 teen-agers who police said staged sex parties, allowed themselves to be photographed in the nude and traded partners year series of orgies appeared in juvenile court today.

year-old night dairy products plant. Police said the watchman took pictures of boys and girls posing in the nude and engaging in sex He had abbdut arrested, Police Chief Harrell said.

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were identified by the pictures and

Two teen-aged Indiana National Guardsmen, now in summer training in Michigan, also were implicated, Chief Harrell said

contributing of a minor, leased on bond. Chief Harrell said there- might 29 be “one other adult involved.”

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girls “got acquainted” at the dairy sex parties and later drove near the airport in twosomes and in groups, where

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asking a grand jury investigation

Acheson Says Ridgway Keeps Alert for Attacks WASHINGTON, July 26 State Dean Ache-

Robert Ruark Side Glances son told Congress today that the Brat major Commu-

armistice talks should collapse,

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FORGERY REVEALED—Ultra-violet light photograph by state police Sgt. Edwin Schroeder reveals the original figures.

INDIANA STATE BOARD OF HEALTH DIVISION OF VITAL RECORDS

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FORGED CERTIFICATE—A teen-aged Indianapolis girl used this altered birth certificate to

, Hospital Plans

$1.5 Million Project At Beech Grove

By TED KNAP Plans for construction of a $1.5 million wing to St. Francis Hospital in Beech Grove were ree vealed today. The wing will add about 104

beds and raise the hospital's normal capacity to ahout 270 beds, It will be built as an extension

at the southwest part of the hos pital to match the northwest wing built in 1931. The main part of the hospital at Sherman Dr. and Troy Ave. was built in 1913, ‘Beds in Hallways’ “The addition will relieve a much crowded condition,” said Sister Mary Alexia, Mother Superior and hospital superintenlent. “We have more patients than

there i= room, and in recent years we've had to place beds in the hallwavs.'

Funds for the project will be. raised in conjunction with the In< dianapolis Hospital Development Association. which recently set a goal of $19 million for hospital construction and expansion here. St. Francis was reported to be a priority project. The date for starting construction depends on how soon St. Francis and the association can raise the funds. Plans Drawn Up _ Sister Alexia said plans for the wing were drawn up some time ago, and only need to be brought up to date St. Francig is operated by the

Red-Allied Poor Sisters of St Francis,

Serath, of the Perpetual Devotion. The Catholic order runs more than 20 hospitals throughout the nation,

Pack Punch—Police Move In rurdves aiine bea

Termed All but Closed DES MOINES, Towa. July 26 (UP)--R, B. Stewart, vice presi{dent and treasurer of Purdue |University, said today that ‘sat lisfactory negotiaions’ may lead {to the sale of Midwest Afrlinea {to the Purdue Research Founda(tion. Purdue officials and representatives of the dirlines all but closed the deal at a conference here yes

§ terday, but final arrangements f lawait the approval of the Civil

Arenautics Board in Washington,

Up and Down SOUTH BEND, Ind, Merriweather, 39, slept on the roof of her home last night, to escape the hot weather. x . _ She got up during the & night, walk wrong way and toppled off the

I July 26 (UP) Mrs. Ida