Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 January 1952 — Page 2

- Jealousy

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‘Brilliant’ Hoosier

Denies Plots "Prompted by

Times Special DENVER. Colo, Jan. 26—A +#prilliant”’ Hoosier . war has been outsmarted into confessing he twice tried to kill his

wife's college boy friend, federal

authorities said today. ; Donald R. Rankin, formerly of Richmond, Ind., has confessed he shot at and then tried to booby-

trap James McCray, 27, of Bowl-

ing Green, O. Denes Jealousy

But he denied the plots were prompted by jealousy or had any-

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thing to do with the fact that his! was wooed on a few dates in 1944—by Mr. McCray. {

wife nd the attractive Mrs. Rankin, 28, refuses to discuss the bomb plot except to say she’ll*stand by her husband. She told reporters she won't reveal—at least until the trial--what she told her husband that set him after Mr. Mc-| Cray. | Rankin, 27, described as a “brilliant” veteran of the Korean| War, also confessed he planned a | third attempt ‘against Mr. Mc-| Cray'’s life, postal authorities said. | He plannéd to shoot him last De-| cember, but ‘didn’t follow through, according to the confession. The bomb plot involved 15 sticks of dynamite mailed in a package to Mr. McCray in Bowl-

Teen-Ager in $18,000 ‘Baby-Sitter’ Arson Hinted resins o Heer Theft May Be Crinpled jot Lie

veteran

| bi . : Whiz Bang In Bottling Young Mother Admits still Not Boss Plant Fire = Hiding Child’s Body Even at 60

: :* ni tnd destrians he wouldn't let I ich gutted the sec- By United Press Kader where she dumped it. The pe J Fire wh f 8 th Side bot PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 26—A Wednesday in a sump hole in a jaywalk weren't the only ones os Sony ° a ou : ih € bot- 51-year-old Mather told Jolice So vacant lot not far from her home. disprotuted on Forrest Allison's 'tling plant early today was day she secreted the body of her pg, jmmediately called off ‘a’Pirtaday. : | b . : { 4 o , | 14 3-year-old daughter in a vacant tew search for a Mr. Allison didn't get his way [fet dliberatel¥: probably by lot because she feared her other i FL thought yesterday, either, on his 60th urglars. daughter would be imprisoned for! the child. |birthday. 2 | That's what Police Sgt. Harold the child's death. fo have Rlanabe) et said Mrs. After he went off duty as trafJefferson said today after looking Mrs. Jada Z. Kader led officers yr 401 “has changed her story fic

patrolman at Illinois and jover damage of the two-alarm fire to the body of Sherrie Ellen _ ora times” of the circum- Maryland Sts, his wife gave him |at Solataire Beverages Inc., 1825 stances surrounding Sherrie El- a birthday present he didn't want, | Shelby St. ™ Jen's death, but he declined to say She treated him to a meal out. Just as firemen from Station ¢ in what respects she had altered He prefqrs eating at his own |3 were arriving, a blast blew out "her admission. kitchen table at home, 6236 Park

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ing Green, O. “Rankin denied his wife had] anything ‘to do with the plot,” | said Postal Inspector R. B. Dun-| bar. “He claimed he was hired to| kill McCray for a fellow named) Al That's all he would say.” | Mr. Dunbar said Rankin con-|

{two second-story windows. Flames {puffed out from the top floor. | Flying glass cut Fire Capt.

{Jack O'Leary on face and hands, 8

but he returned to duty after first

laid. Positive Safe Locked When police investigated the {burned-out offices on the second (floor, they found safe doors open (and desk drawers ransacked. Sgt. Jefferson quoted Owner

{Fred R. Leucht as saying that]

{when he left at about 6:30 p. m. lyesterday, he was positive the {safe was locked. A cash box from one of the desk drawers was lying on a desk top. Police found only a few pennies in the box. | The owner's wife said the box was used only for petty.cash and

Mrs. Kader ‘told detectives Sherrie Ellen was hit on the head

’% with a piece of concrete Wednes-

day while playing with her 4-

8 year-old sister, Vickie, fh the

basement of their home. She said she thought the child was dead, so she dragged the body out of the house after dark,

} borrowed a car and drove the

body to the.sump hole. Mrs. Kader admitted she thought up the kidnap hoax as a means -of turning attention away from Vickie. But after intensive questioning, she broke down and admitted the manner in which Sherrie Ellen died, police said. She even coached Vickie to tell police about a ‘dirty old man” who drove up in a dark car,

Ave. Rapid Fire Operator All day yesterday fellow policemen calléd congratulations to the man they call “Whiz Bang” because of the rapid-fire traffic operations. “Willie,” the old-timer news boy, barked as usual that Mr, Allison was so cautious he wouldn't even let him cross when the light was right. The veteran policeman began his career Oct. 19, service in the military police in World War 1 in France gave him the idea. On arrival at his home town Here with his Paris bride of three months, Mr. Allison sought a police job and. got it. A while back, he directed traffic at Meridian and

1919. His

grabbed Sherrie Ellen and drove

away. Vickie, apparently after her mother tutored her, told officers the man “had gray hair just like grandmother’s.” Mrs. Kader, police said, told Vickie what to say because she, did not want the child to ‘get!

{seldom contained more than $25. She added that money was ‘hever| {kept in the safe. Papers in the safe were burned. | On the first floor of the build-| 8 ling, the owner found a bolt 10%

linches long wrapped in friction]

Mrs. * Jada and

Z. Kader

. and paper and was “completely |

fessed after a “psychological trick” was played on him. Rankin was placed in a cell with a pencil

TEEN.AGE TRIO—The above photo taken at the time of their arrest shows (left to right) |P'ackiack.

. . . d Eileen Jeffries, Roberta McCauley and Marilyn Curry. iL, Leucht sould 0% 5 2eacyed

burglary and the fire. . Sgt. Jefferson said the fire ap-

A Ch k peared to be purposely started, rmy ec S but there was a “possibility the

By United Press” Shepherd here by a rope of knotignored” until he finally notified] SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Jan, 26 ted bed sheets. officials he wanted to confess. | _ (ne of three young girls who The accident happened Jan. 18, Mr. Rankin was then daen be went on an $18,000 stolen-money but the nature of it and the serifore U. 8, Commissioner Harold ousness of her injuries were not 8S. Oakes for arraignment on|dptee in New York ast fall nay disclosed until today. The girl charges of mailing the dynamite. from ir to window ng underwent a serious spinal opHe waived a hearing and said he _~ yd : eration Monday, but was will also waive indictment by a lrying to Ree a detention home, 104 «resting comfortably” federal grand jury. Rankin asked it was disclosed today. a hospital. to have his case transferred to Fileen Jeffries, 17, of Lynn. = mpne catholic nuns who operDenver for hearing from Chey- Mass. oldest of the three gIrlt 540 (he detention” home refused enne, Wyo., where he mailed the '" the “baby-sitter” case and the ¢, comment ahout the accident. lethal package: only one sentenced to a penal In- pslica Chief Raymond P. Gal“He told us in detail how he Stitution as a result of the esca-),ghor gajd he had heard of it

{burglars may have started it by

’ | y 1 d . Gen. Lowe S Bolen Yio Prevention Bureau

was investigating for arson.

By Scripps-Howard Newspapers

Red ‘Crow-shayed’ w NG , . 26 . Army 1a checking is files 10 ce. SWeater Surprise

termine what messages it received

tape, evidently the burglars

ickie, 4.

. into any trouble.”

A Cat Is a Cat Is a Cat—

Army Catalog Written

2 By or for 1st Graders? at Messages | By ANDREW TULLY

Scripps-Howard Staff Writer | WASHINGTON, Jan. 26—When military men get out a catalog {of their supplies, they apparently

|figure any dumbbell knows what

y -Take something called ‘“‘cantharides,” for instance. It isn't described. Neither is” “holder,

roller,” whatever that is.

But in case nobody has ever f

heard of a screw driver, .a fat

Washington Sts. and for a time was in the Juvenile Aid Division, Things looked brighter today. His wife promised they'll eat at home tonight.

Forrest Allison

paragraph explains its functions:

drove to Richmond Dec. 7," Mr, Pade, apparently was attempting through unofficial sources and anPresident T nounced he would conduct an in-

Dunbar reported, “Then, early on| Dec. 8, drove to McCray's home. When McCray answered the door, | Rankin said, he fired four shots at him. One bullet struck McCray in the shoulder.” | “When this attempt failed” Mr. Dunbar added, “Rankin told| us how he planned the next at-| tempt with the package of dynamite. The bomb plot was discovered when McCray took the package to County Attorney Floyd Coller.”

to escape from the House of Good

Rail Wage Increase Due

By United Press » WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 —A Presidential emergency board was expected to recommend substantial wage increases today for 52,000 railroad firemen to settle

thair two-year dispute with the carriers. The board was due to make its recommendations to President

Used Army Technique Mr. Dunbar sald Rankin told officials he learned the technique for making the “booby-trap” in his military demolition training. “When the second attempt

| vestigation,

| It was the second time tragedy i,.m involved a principal in the case of the three girls who ran away to New Yotk Oct. 17 with $18,000 that cablegrams he sent from Ko- thing. taken from a strong box in the homie of a physician where one of them had been minding a baby. Dr. Albert H. Fh 51. Y: were delivered to the President. Nahant, vietim of the theft, comsuicide 11 days after the chief of information, said he had|

mitted

looting of his home. Indeterminate Sentence

Eileen and her

from Maj. Gen. Frank E. rows, Of ‘Hunting Trip ;

ruman’s personal re)-| But they want to be sure every- ‘A manual or. power-driven tool, resentative, while he was in Kn-| WASHINGTON COUR Tfbody knows what they're talking designed to impart a rotary morea, and what was done with HOUSE, O., Jan. 26 (UP)—Game about when they mention a “coat, tion to a bit, and is used for in- . \protector Irvin (Pat) Patrick man’s.” galing end femoving sefews, In General Low i /figured today he had seen every-| At any rate, in the $50 million OPeration, the tool is not fixed . 2 ald ada cataloging job of military items and is controlled by hand.” with a brick wrapped in handkerrea might have prevented a break He and some friends were being done by the Munitions! Similarly, “fruit salad, canned,” chiefs took $159.38 in ‘“‘cold cash” between Mr. Truman and Gen. Shooting crows near the Greene Board, “diacetyl Monoxime, re- is described as “a mixture of from a:deep freeze in the Senate Douglas MacArthur, but never County line. After felling a num- gent” is described no further. halves, quarters and tid-bits of| Ave. Market, 1302 N. Senate Ave, {ber of crows, they were picking But somebody has gone into assorted fruits.” And a “shirt, Irving Brinbaum, 43, of 5517 fup the kill when all drew back the subject of “coat, man’s,” to baseball,” is neatly identified as a Guilford Ave., one of the owners, suddenly. define it as “a coat to be worn “shirt worn by a baseball player.” told police the money, which was There, among the dead crows, by men.” lin a sack, was apparently the lay one wearing a nicely tailored Well-Known Terms Defined | {only thing missing.

| diacetyl monoxime; regent,” is.

Glass-Breaking Theft Nets $159.38 Here

An after-hours “customer” who v:ing a door glass

Maj. Gen. Floyd Parks, Army

ordered a check. He said it would! {take some time, since General

For Interchange Purpose

red sweater.

companions, Roberta McCauley, 15, Nahant,

Truman, calling for hourly in- 8nd Marilyn Curry, 16, Lynn, creases of about .38 cents for spent some, $3000 of the money eral Parks said, “any message

Lowe was in Korea for 10 months, and Army communications men! here handle thousands of messages daily. “The best I can find out,” Gen-|

fasled. Rankin said he was plan- Yard workers and 2315 cents for on a tour of exclusive shops and to the White House buzzes right

ning a third attempt to kill Mc-| Foadmen. Cray,” Mr. Dunbar said. “Rankin! The board's recommendations

had already made arrangements are not binding. A firemen's with. a local pawnshop to pur-| Spokesman said-the union prob-| chase a high-powered rifle and ably would reject’ them if the telescopic sight. to stalk McCray and shoot him Working rules—the major hitch at a distance of 500 yards.” in the" dispute. Rankin admitted he never saw The proposed wage increase the Ohio man until he fired the would be similar to that already four shots at him, Mr. Dunbar granted to the largest. operating said, i brotherhood, the trainmen, whose The postal inspector still re- pay is now tied to the governfused to offer his idea as to the ment’'s cost-of-living index. motive for the fantastic murder ree eee

attempts. . “Let people draw their own Police Probe Theft Of $35,000 Pearls

conclusions,” he said. | NEW YORK, Jan. 26 (UP)— Palice investigated today the theft of cultured pearls valued at

Find 2 More Bodies From Airlift Crash

Bogarts Expecting

SANDSPIT, British Columbia, Jan. 286 (UP)—Two more bodies from last Saturday's crash of a Korean airlift plane were washed ashore ‘yesterday reducing to 23 the number still missing. One of the bodies was that of the pilet of the military-chartered DC-4, Northwest Pilot John Pfaffinger, 39, of Kent, Wash. "The body of a soldier was also found

but not identified immediately. Sl ———- + a—————————

Rains Slack Off On Pacific Coast

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 26 (UP)—8torm-driven rains diminished over California and western Nevada early today, bringing hope that more widespread flooding might be averted. "he respite came after a second storm whipped over northern California from the Pacific. with torrential downpours that spilled flood crests over San Joaquin Valley :levees and threatened farmlands in Merced, Madera and Tulare Counties.

Manhattan Police Busy NEW YORK, Jan. 28 -(UP)— “Hraffic officers in congested Manhattan passed out a total of 453, 099 summonses for parking violations in 1951, an increase of 93,358 over 1850,

Crash Probe Set WASHINGTON, Jan. 268 (UP) —An on-the-scene congressional investigation will begin Monday into two plane crashes near the Newark, N. J,, airport w ave claimed 85 lives within fi eeks.

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Jan. 26 UP) — Actress Lauren Bacall, wife of screen tough guy Humphrey Bogart, expecis her second] child in August, the couple re-| vealed today. They were mare ried May 21, 1945.

\For Quick Revier of

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$35,000 from a Northwest Airlines

cargo - storage area at Idlewild Airport. :

The pearls, imported: from Tokyo by the L. Borrelli Corp., here, arrived Monday and were discovered missing yesterday. It was the third big cargo theft at the airport in the last three months.

Trial of Youth Held

In Stabbing Postponed

NEW YORK, Jan. 26 (UP)—

Arraignment of David LaBounty,

22, Hammond, 'Ind., on assault charges in the stabbing of a Columbia University roommate was postponed today for a week. A judge adjourned the case when LaBounty asked more time to get a lawyer. LaBounty was accused in the stabbing of Harvey Smith, when the two quarreled over Smith's plan to move out of the apartment they

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Meningitis Outbreak ENTERPRISE, Okla. Jan, 26 (UP)—Public gatherings were banned in five communities in

prise, and Norman Wilson, Kinta, died yesterday of highly contagious disease.

‘Spain OK's McVeigh (UP)—The Spanish government has approved the appointment of Lincoln MeVeigh as U. 8. Ambassador to und {nformed her,

MADRID, Jan. 26

Madrid, replacing Stanton Griffis

| Mr, McVeigh is expected to arrive |in Madrid early in March.

WATCH REPAIRING

Immediate Service © Main Springs ® Crystals ® Crowns © Slems

nightclubs claimed they were “taken” the rest by ‘‘sharpies.” Convicted of larceny in Lynn

was given an indeterminate sentence in Framingham Women's Reformatory. However, the judge stipulated that she was to spend the first year in the House of Good Shepherd here,

Alben W. Barkley

I Am OK, Barkley Says

By United Press JEFFERSON, CITY, Mo., Jan

| 26—Vice President Alben Barkley | said today he was fully recovered from “a slight case of nausea’

which he suffered last night.

| “I'm as good as ever,” the T74-

| year-old Mr. Barkley said.

| Mr. Barkley addressed a meetthis area today after an outbreak ing of the Missouri Bar Associaof dreaded spinal meningitis. Two tion here. He planned to leave children, Edith Johnson, 3, Enter-| this morning for Kansas City, 10, Kas.; to attend the Democratic the Party's Midwest conference. | Mr, Barkley blamed his sudden He |said he also drank two glasses of water too quickly at the end

fllness on a salt-freé diet.

of his talk.

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in New York and on through.” for

General Parks said the Army did not plan to comment on other charges by General Lowe, since they were an expression of per-

He was going board proposed arbitration of pistrict Court Dec. 26, Eileen Sonal opinion,

The White House had no com-| ment. >

Sale of Trigger | Looms Despite | Fans’ Protest |

WHARTON, Tex., Jan. 26 (UP) | -—Roy Roger's horse Trigger, whose speed and palomino beauty | have thrilled millions of movie-| going small fry, may retire from| {the silver screen. | Oilman-rancher J. B. Ferguson lsaid he and Rogers will meet to~| |day to discuss a $200,000 offer for the actor's famous horse, now 19! |years‘old and known to have a lyounger successor standing by in|

Patrick believes someone’s pet crow escaped, joined Ris

circumstances. When asked if the sweater was knitted, Patrick quipped, - “No, | crow-shayed.”

Doug Marks |

In other words, although the| Munitions Board is meticulous

wild about defining well-known items, military |friends, and became a -victim of it doesn’t bother to identify thou- and numbers so that they can be|

sands of supplies ordinarily known only to specialists.

72d Birthday

By United Press \ NEW YORK, Jan. 26—The old soldier who was the No. 1 news!

day. Douglas MacArthur spent his

| 72d birthday quietly at home. But

he showed no signs of fading

away.

It's pretty hard to fade away when you receive more than 10,000 birthday cards, letters, telegrams, and cables in five days; when you're barraged with re-

; |quests to make speeches; when states insist)

supporters in! six they're entering you in their presidential primaries.

supporters in the various states that he will withdraw his name from any primary in which it is entered and that he will not be-

story of 1951 was a bit older to- eliminated,

Primary object of the .catalog-| ing program is to give identical items identical names,

interchanged easily among the, three services. But apparently the! Munitions Board is taking the! word “identical” literally. |

For example, there is a $1500 wodworking sawing machine used | by two of the services. But it has] been assigned two different stock numbers because, in one service, a tube of grease is included as part of the saw’s equipment. | Some of these abuses would be] according to Rep. Jack Z. Anderson (R. Cal.) by a bill he has introduced calling for a single supply catalog system for the national military establishment. Hearings on the bill will start early next month before a {House Armed Services Committee (headed by F. Edward Hebert | (D. La.). {

No Dangerous Drugs

The general has informed his;

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The Vice:President later tele- at Peru, The FBI said Slaton dephoned his wife in Washington “I am all

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: |come a candidate. The supporters {have taken the line that that |statement- makes him all the more jeligible.. |

* Predicts Good Radio | Reception Next Week { By Science Service | WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 — {Shortwave radio broadcasts will

come through quite well for the

next week with the possible ex'DARK ~~ VENUS" — Jeanette [ception of only fair reception to-

| Wilby, 19, Canadian citizen, is day and Sunday, radio forecasters being held by immigration au- |at the National Bureau of Stand? thorities at Miami, Fla, for ards here predicted this morning. claiming falsely to be a citizen A storm brewing in the lon. of the \. S. Miss Wilby, who sphere, however, is expected to

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Wien sPENDING goes up as prices go up—our dollars buy less and less. That is why fightingrinflation is a task for everyone. If you want to help hold down inflation, you must spend wisely and save more of your dollars regularly. Now is the time to pay more attention to more saving.

Canada Pulp Business | Hits High in 1951

{ MONTREAL, Quebec, Jan. 26 (UP)—R. M. Fowler, president of the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association, told the annual meeting here yesterday that Canada's

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Soldier Arrested

FRANKFORT, Jan. 26 (UP)— The FBI and local authorities prepared today to turn over William M. Slaton, 24, formerly of Evansville, to military authorities

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