Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 January 1952 — Page 2
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By United Press ATLANTA, Jan. 9—Betty Thompson, the 19 - year - old - beauty who smiled while oth-
1k and sorrow of her four-year t against cancer, is dead.
» Doctors told her last May she nly a short'time to live, but raven-haired girl simply
1dked
{ at their death sentence.
mained
( zed in
courageous as And even the k up of her romance with burn, a naval aviation ; failed to
th spirits
mate
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‘1 Am Ready to Die’ family said, he seemed to realize the fight y The disease had forced the amputation of her right leg i had attacked her lungs. I eady to die . . . Don't iown or grieve for me when gone,” she told: them. was conscious until about
Hor ner
But Sunda)
8 over
Fears She
yesterday afternoon, but: her agonizing illness had left her too weak to say good-by to her family and friends. : A sister, Mrs. W. J. Jones, of Atlanta, - said Betty told her mother she was ready to die. FETA RY “this to Be the day,"” Mrs. Jones quoted her. “Betty did everything she could to make her death as easy for mother as
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going to live to be 100" '
four hours hefore her death late |
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* She Smiled While Others Were Lit | Cancer Takes Beauty, 19, Who Laughed at Death Sentence
BETTY THOMPSON-—'"Don't break down or grieve for me
to fly from base to young Amburn got an emergency dying sweetheart.
possible.” Leave Revoked | when | die." Betty's ill-fated romance re- leave ceived national attention when Va. naval
the Norfolk,! The blond, curly haired sailor marry his stayed here only a few hours be(fore flying to his home in Sioux
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Falls, 8, D., at the request of his mother, who was distraught over the impending wedding. Mr. Amburn’'s emergency leave was revoked by his gommander, who pointed out that the emergency was in Atlanta, not Sioux Falls. The 19-year-old sailor was hospitalized ‘near the breaking point” when he returned to Norfolk. . = Jetty then broke their engagement, commenting that ‘‘apparently his mother's health is more important than mine.” The sailor said he still loved her, but added, “I guess she's branded me.” She was deluged with flowers and mail from well wishers throughout the nation and some foreign countries, Four Marines in Korea adopted her as their sweetheart# and arranged for roses to be sent her every day. The brave girl was amazed at the public's interest in her case and once exclaimed: “I never realized the world was
, 50 full of helpful strangers. That
must be the way it is in heaven.” Despite her burning desire to live, she grew rapidly weaker during the past few months. But she managed to fly to New York City as guest of the American
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POLIS TIMES
Archbishop O'Hara Gets Post Today
By United Press
| Sometimes It's Appreciation—
There Are Differe
By United Press HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 9—Actress
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 9—The Zasu Pitts stood by. to testify toMost Rev. John Francis O'Hara day in Actress Madge Meredith's
will ba installed as archbishop of the Roman Catholic dioegse of Philadelphia today in a colorful’ and solemn ceremony attended by
70 members .of the American Roman Catholic heirarchy ° and hundreds of laymen. ’ Archbishop O'Hara, former president, of Notre Dame University and bishop of Buffalo (N. Y.), will become the spir-
ftual leader of Bishop O'Hara
one million Roman Catholics in
10 eastern Pennsylvania counties
8 thi He is the ninth ordinary and fif Band over yesterday under ques-
archbishop to hold the post. The formal ceremony of
installation will be conducted in the, catBedral of 88. Peter and Paul| by the Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni
suit to recover title to a home from which she was ousted by the man she was convicted of kidnaping. . Miss Meredith, who served two and a half years of a life prison |sentence for engineering the kid-Inap-beating of her former busi{ness - manager, Nick Glanaclis, |charged in her suit that he persuaded her to sign the house over to him by fraud. Miss Pitts, who led the fight that culminated in Miss Meredith's release from Tehachapi (prison, was in court yesterday but {Fas not called to the witness {stand. She said she would be a character witness for the starlet, currently attempting a comeback. Miss Meredith, 30, repeated over
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/tloning by Mr. Glanaclis’ attorney that she never loved her former
Attorney Cletus J. Hanifin de-
Cicognani, apostolic delegate to manded repeatedly whether she
the United States.
had lived with Mr. Gianaclis be-
The archbishop, who ‘succeeds fore they purchased the disputed
the late Dennis
Cardinal
home. The attorney referred to
Dougherty, was welcomed by 8 her as “Mrs. Gianaclis” several
city-wide pealing of bells
last night as he arrived to present his
(times. On each occasion, Miss Mere-
National Theater and Academy apostolic letters of appointment dith corrected him.
for a whirl of entertainment.
rot party. was. staged. dn. her. hon-| or-at the Waldorf Astoria and
she also made guest appearances on television. Funeral arrangements were being delayed until the Red Cross
to the diocesan consultors.
Man-Hatin’ Girl On Raft Goes
“Did you ever say you were in Gianaclis?” Mr. @&
love with Mr. Hannifin asked." Letter in Evidence
“No, I never said ‘I'm in love (with you’ to Mr. Gianaclis,” the
learned whether her prother.m. Overboard In Love scree reptied. ever fold Him she
law, in Germany with the Army,|
BOSTON, Jan. 9 (UP)—When joved him,
she replied, “Well,
could be granted leave to fly here orajdine Garcia, 24, Boston, com-|there's a difference there.”
for Betty's runeral. {
A Smooth Talker—
DETROIT, Jan. 9 (UP)—A’ guitar-strumming Lothario who disappeared two days ago with a pretty, 13-year-old high school girl may be headed for his home state of Kentucky, police said yesterday. A nation-wide alarm was broadcast for the arrest of 31-year-
old Richard D. Davis, also known as William Pinkerton. He was last seen Sunday when he volunteered to drive blond, blue-eyed Edith Hickman to nearby Ypsilanti Sanatorium, where her father is a patient. Davis, described as a smoothtalker of varted background, roomed at the girl's home in suburban Livonia for three days before they drove away together in his new Dodge convertible. Livonia police, who asked the . Federal Bureau of Investigation to help in the search, said that “on|
naping.” Police Chief George E, Harmon!
aded for
Edith Hickman |
the face of it, it looks like kid-|place, and may be taking the g there.
The man and girl never reached attended Purdue University and said he learned Davis has rela- the Ypsilanti Sanatorium. Edith’s tives in Mayfield, Ky., his birth- father, Goalder Hickman, left the (five years.
Arrested in
Times State Service
ware County commissioners, under indictment on charges of con-
arrested late yesterday and released on $3000 bond each.
son and Roy J. McBride. A wararrest. of Leonard Thomas, now in Florida.|
engine,
dicted Harold Cronin, former
own .use, He was rearrested with, Parkison and McBride on the conpiracy charge. Cronin had been free on $3000 ond. He was released again yesterday, on the same bopd. Sheriff W. Pete Anthony, who rested the three, sald he expected Thomas to return to Munrie this week-end. He sald he i arrest Thomas then. The eriff sdid he would deie later what steps to take if omas does not. return,
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Collapse of Buildings Guitar-Strumming Lothario, Girl, Believed He
Kentucky
sanatorium long enough yesterday to seek a kidnaping warrant, The girl's brother:in-law, Frank + Howard, 27, sald Davis had ! stayed at their home for a week, but was asked to leave because of] his unwelcome attentions to Mr.! Howard's wife and “some of the children.” The missing girl's brother, Price Hickman, 19, told police that] Davis was ‘a pretty-talking fel-| low who looks young for his age, plays a guitar and thinks he can| sing.” | All of Davis’ clothes were miss-| ing from his room. Relatives said some of Edith’s clothes also were gone. Davis recently purchased his new convertible by trading in a 1951 model believed stolen in Grand Rapids, Mich., and paying the balance with a worthless $1600 check, police said. In applying Tor a job at a Deir] |troit firm last week, Davis stated {in his application that he was married, had four children, had
served in the Merchant Marine for
| * % |Blood Donations Are Lagging Here ° | Indianapolis is lagging again, ( ons irac jin sending blood to servicemen shown at factories and other |overseas. | places visited by mobile units. : | Red Cross officials said today | MUNCIE, Jan. 9—Two Dela- that for every four donors needed, | fears, “too many people have lost only one, showed up during the interest in blood donations since
holiday season,
The number of blood donors spiracy to commit a felony, were dropped 75 per cent.
Equally sharp drops are being
“Apparently,” the Red Cross
the lu]l in fighting in Korea.” Chairman Harlah J. Hadley of the Indianapolis Chapter empha:
And the city fell 800 pints be- sized today that giving blood is
They are Woodrow W. Parki- ber.
low its 5000-pint quota for Decem- just as important as ever.
You can make an appointment
More alarming, ‘the Red Cross by calling LIncoln 1441.
The charges grew out of the al- fewer leged purchase of a $415 auto needed donors showed up at the tion of shortwave radio broad|/downtown center at 18 W. casts will be fair to good through
rant also has been issued for the warned, is that the holiday slump former Commissioner {8 continuing into the new year. Last Thursday, than one third of
The grand jury already had in-| Georgia St. About 180 donors a day are Tuesday, report radio forecasters,
county highway superintendent, on'needed to fill the January quota. at the National Bureau of Stan- + a charge of conyerting it to his Only 58 gave blood that day.
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Laid to Excavation | NOBLESVILLE, Jan. 9 (UP)— Excavation and remodeling work was blamed today for the collapse of two buildings in the heart of this city's business district. | A passer-by, Clyde Carson, 33, suffered minor injuries when he was struck by a brick. Total damage was not estimated immediately. The three-story Zeckel clothing store, where workers had been
remodeling’ work, toppled over] yesterday onto an-adjacent two-, story building housing a cleaning
[pleted her trip down the Missis-|
“I've told a great many persons
sippi River with another girl and 1 1oved them dearly for things
two men aboard the raft Lethargia, she was interviewed by a New Orleans newspaper reporter. “How do you feel about men now that you have spent so much time with them on a raft?” 3
the reporter asked. » Miss Garcia
they have done for me. ...I may
don’t know.” Mr. Hanifin produced a letter signed by Miss Meredith in which she told Mr. Gianaclis: “You must know deep in your heart I have never cared for anyone but you. ... I have never allowed any other man to touch me in a caressing way.”
was written years ago “after a night when he tried to kill me.
| “I wouldn't marry .the bestit thought he was a wonderful digging in the basement during man in the world,” Miss Garcia man. I never thought he was the
replied.
[type he turned out to be.”
Then she took another look at, Mr. Gianaclis testified that he
the reporter.
manager and never lived with |
Miss Meredith said the letter in
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Actress Madge Meredith Explains
FRIEND IN COURT—Comedian Zasu Pitts (left) announced
she will be a character witness for Madge Meredith (right).
{missing Canadian beauty may be dead, but continued their land and sea search for the woman. Deputy Sheriff James O. Bark(er revealed that 21-year-old Mrs. | Huguette Lemay left her purse | and cosmetics in the family auto|mobile when she vanished Friday night during a fishing trip the Florida Keys with her husband, George Lemay, Montreal realtor. | Mrs. Lemay customarily car{ried her purse and make-up ar- | ticles’ everywhere she went, the
When she arrived never had handled Miss Mere- Officer said. establishment. Both structures on home today, Miss Garcia dis-|dith's money or acted as her,
He ordered a searcn continued
the south side of the public square closed that she and the reporter agent, directly counter to her across the water and beaches
were wrecked. {
now are “in love.”
She refused statements. Owner Benjamin Zeckel esti- to disclose his name, but said she]
{surrounding a few small isles
“I only used my influence to near Tom's Harbor bridge, popu-|
| search,
Indicate Missing Canadian Bride Died by Violence
| MIAMI, Fla, Jan. 9 (UP) — of Miami where the young Cae have told him I loved him for his| Authorities indicated for the first! nadian bride was last seen alive, kindness and goodness to me—I time yesterday they believe a|
The belief that she died by violence has grown since dozens of reports that the dark-eyed girl was seen in nearby cities all railed to bring results, Mr,
Barker indicated. . “Were concentrating the search’ and operating on the theory that a crime has been committted,” he said. “New evidence and the passage of time tends to rule out abduction. It has increased our concern for her safety immeasurably.” Mr. Barker, leader of the styck to his prediction that “a new. development” ine dicating foul play would come soon. “But you can't prove a crime
mated damage to his building and expected a visit from him here make her a star. I didn’t want lar fishing spot on the overseas has been committed without a
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