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Times Special : 3 DENVER, Colo, Jan. 26—A A : Ht “prilliant”’ Hoosier war veteran has been outsmarted into :confes-

sing 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 boobytrap James McCray, 27, of Bowling Green, O. :

Denies Jealousy

But he denied the plots were prompted by jealousy or “ad anything to do with the fact that his

wife was wooed on .a few dates in 1944--by Mr. McCray. And the attractive Mrs. Rankin, 26, 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 hus-| band that set him after Mr. Mc-| Cray. i Rankin, described as a “brilliant” veteran of the Kqrean| War, also confessed he planned a third attempt against Mr. McCray’s life, postal authorities said. | He planned to shoot him last De-| cember, but didn’t follow through, according to the confession. ai The bomb plot involved ' 15; sticks of dynamite mailed in a package to Mr. McCray in Bowls ing Green, O. “Rankin denied his wife had| anything to do with the plot,”| said Postal Inspector Ri B: Dun-| bar. “He claimed he was hired to kill McCray for a fellow named) A! That's all he would say.” I Mr. Dunbar sald Rankin con-| fessed after a “psychological trick” was played on him. Rankin was placed in a cell with a pencil and paper and was “completely| _ignored” until he finally notified officials he wanted to confess. i

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By United Press SPRINGFIELD, Mass. Jan, 26

|~—One of three young girls who

ones. Jor arraignment on Spree in New York last fall may charges of mailing the dynamite. be crippled for life after falling » He walved a hearing and said he from a fourth-story window while will also waive indictment by a! trying to flee a detention home, federal grand jury. Rankin asked it was disclosed today. to have his case transferred to Fileen Jeffries, 17, Denver for hearing from Chey- Mass, Oldest of the three. girls enne, Wyo., where he mailed the in the “baby-sitter” case and the Ry only one sentenced to a penal in-

: age. : Jetyst Perk ge in detail how he Stitution as a result of the esca-

drove to Richmond Dec. 7,” Mr, | Pade, apparently was attempting Dunbar reported, “Then, early on| to escape from the House of Good Dec. 8, drove to McCray's home. = When McCray answered the doar, | ® 3 . Rankin said, he fired four shots Rail Wage at him. One bullet struck McCray in the shoulder.” “When this attempt aes [NCrease Due Mr. Dunbar added, “Rankin told) B United Pron us how he planned the next at-| y tempt with the package of dyna- WASHINGTON, Jan. mite. The bomb plot was discovered when McCray took the package to County Attorney Floyd Coller.” Used Army Technique Mr. Dunbar said Rankin told officials he learned the technique for making the “booby-trap” in his military demolition training. “When the second attempt failed, Rankin said he was planning a third attempt to kill Me. | 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 rifie and ably would reject them if the telescopic sight. He was going board 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 the Ohio man until he fired the would be similar to that four shots at him, Mr. Dunbar granted to the largest operating sald, brotherhood, the trainmen, whose The postal inspector still re- pay is now tied to the governfused to offer ris idea as to the‘ Mment's cost-of-living index. motive for the fantastic murder me . attempts. “Let people draw their own

of Lynn,

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was expected to recommend substantial wage increases today for 52,000 railroad firemen to settle their two-year dispute with the carriers. The board was due to make its recommendations to President Truman, calling for hourly in-

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Police Probe Theft Of $35,000 Pearls

NEW YORK, Jan. 28 (UP)— Police investigated today the theft of cultured pearls valued at $35,000 from a Northwest Airlines cargo storage area at Idlewild Airport. The pearls, imported from Tokyo by the 1. 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

From Airlift Crash

SANDSPIT, British Columbia, Jan. 26 (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 pilot 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.

Reine Slack off ; On Pacific Coast

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. .26 (UP)—S8torm-dtiven rains dimin-

Presidential emergency board Nahant v

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ished over California and western Nevada early today, bringing hope that more widespread flooding . might be averted. The respite came after a second storm whipped over northern California from the Pacific with torrential downpours that spilled flood crests over San Joaduin Valley levees and threatened farmlands in Merced, Madera and

to get a lawyer.

postponed today for a week, A judge adjourned the case when LaBounty asked more time LaBounty was accused in the stabbing of Harvey Smith, 27, when the two quarreled over Smith's plan to move out of the apartment they shared.

Meningitis Outbreak ENTERPRISE, Okla. Jan.. 26 UP)—Public gatherings were banned in five communities in| this area today after an outbreak of dreaded spinal meningitis, Two children, Edith Johnson, 3, Enterprise, and Norman Wilson, 10, Kinta, died yesterday of the, highly contagious disease. |

Tulare Counties. ,

Manhattan Police Busy NEW YORK, Jan. 28 (UP)— Traffic officers in congested Manhattan passed out a total of 453 099 summonses for parking violations in 1951, an increase of 93, 358 over 1950.

Crash Probe Set WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 (UP) —An on-the-scene congressional investigation will begin Monday into two plane crashes near the Newark, N. J., airport which have claimed 85 lives within five weeks.

Spain OK's McVeigh MADRID, Jan. 26 (UP)—The Spanish government has approved | the appointment of Lincoln MeVeigh as U. 8B. Ambassador to Madrid, replacing Btanton Griffis. Mr, McVeigh is expected to arrive

Bogarts Expecting {in Madrid early in March.

HOLLYWOOD, (Cal, Jan. 2 WATCH REPAIRING

UP) — Actress Lauren Bacall, wife of screen tough guy Humph-|

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| vey Bogart, expects her second|] Immediate Service child in August, the couple re-| 3 lualomp : | vealed today. They were mate : Cryst . im

"ried May 21, 1945.

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The accident happened Jan. 18, Mr. Rankin was then taken be-/o.0t on an $18,000 stolen-money but the nature of it and the seri- * ousness of her injuries were not disclosed until today. The girl serious spinal op-|

underwent a eration Monday, but was ported “resting comfortably” a hospital. The Catholic nuns who operate the detention home refused to comment about the accident. Police Chief Raymond P. Gallagher said he had heard of it through unoffictal sources and announced he would conduct an investigation, v It was the second time tragedy 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 Kotaken from a strong box in the home of a physician where one of them had been minding a baby, Douglas MacArthur,

Dr. Albert H. Covner, 51, of

fetim of the theft, com-

Indeterminate Sentence

Eileen and her companions,

Roberta McCauley, 15, Nahant, here handle thousands of mes-

and Marilyn Curry, 16, Lynn,

for

Convicted of larceny in Lynn

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I Am OK, Barkley Says

By. United Press JEFFERSON, CITY, Mo., Jan. 26—Vice President Alben Barkley sald today’he was fully recovered from ‘a slight case of nausea’ which he suffered last night.

“I'm as good as ever,” the 74-year-old Mr. Barkley said. Mr. Barkley addressed a meeting of the Missouri Bar Association here. He planned to leave this morning for Kansas City, Kas, to attend the Democratic Party's Midwest conference,

Mr. Barkley blamed his sudden fllness on -a salt-free diet. He said he also drank two glasses of water too quickly at the end of his talk. » The Vice President later telephoned his wife in Washington and informed her, “I am all right.”

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Prometed by Teen-Ager in $18,000 ‘Baby-Sitter’ Arson Hinte "Theft May Be Crippled for Life

| TEEN-AGE TRIO—The above photo taken at the time of their arrest. shows (left to right) | Eileen Jeffries, Roberta McCauley and Marilyn Curry.

Army Checks Gen. Lowe's

By Scripps-Howard Newspapers WASHINGTON, Jan. 26—The Army is checking its files to determine what messages it received from Maj. Gen. Frank E. Lowe,

President Truman's personal ra)-| resentative, while he was in Ko-| rea, and what was done with HOUSE, O., Jan. 28 (UP)—Game about when they mention a “coat, tion to a bit, and is used for in- Nets stalling and removing screws. In

At any rate, in the $50 million OPeration, the tool is not fixed .

thém. | General Lowe said yesterday)

rea might have prevented a break|

In Bottling

Fire which gutted the second story of a South Side bot-

| burglars.

+ By United Press

That's what Police Sgt. Harold the child's death. [Jefferson said today after looking Mrs. Jada Z. Kader led officers yr qo. ‘hag changed her story fic patrolman at Illinois and

lover damage of the two-alarm fire to the body of Sherrie Ellen 1825

lat Solataire Beverages Inc. | Shelby St.

{puffed out from the top floor. | Flying glass cut ‘Fire Capt {Jack O'Leary on face and hands

'but he returned to duty after first a

aid. Positive Safe Locked

When police

|and desk drawers ransacked.

Sgt.” Jefferson quoted® Owner) Fred R. Leucht as saying that {when he left at about 6:30 p. m.| |yesterday, 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 pen-

nies in the box.

| The owner's wife said the box| was used only for petty cash and,

{seldom contained more than’ $25

* /8he added that money was ‘ever Papers in the

{kept in the safe. |safe were burned.

| On the first floor of the buildthe owner found a bolt 10! linches long wrapped in friction] tape, evidently the burglar's

ing.

|blackjack. | Mr. Leucht could not be reached for an estimate of loss from the burglary and the fire. Sgt. Jefferson said the fire appeared to be purposely started, but there was a possibility the burglars may have started it by accident. The Fire Prevention Bureau

was investigating for arson.

Messages | Red ‘Crow-shayed’

[military men get out a catalog roller,” whatever that fs. {of their supplies, they apparently

Sweater Surprise Of ‘Hunting Trip

| Just as firemen from Station j 3 were arriving, a blast blew out {two gecond-story windows. Flames!

investigated the {burned-out offices on the second (floor, they found safe doors open

3 i, \ } mL Mrs. Jada Z. Kader | Vickie, 4.

and

Kill Wife's d Kidnaping a Hoax— “ Young Mother Admits Plant Fire Hiding Child’s Body : Even at 60 .

lot because she feared her other . ” lier thought daughter would be imprisoned for aty ont ant war child. 5

Kader where she dumped it

Police immediately called off a three-day statewide search for a

“Detective Joe Blewett said Mrs.

several times” of the . circumstances surrounding Sherrie El-

{ len’s death, but he declined to say

in what respects she had altered her admission. ‘Mrs. Kader told detectives Sherrie Ellen was hit-on the head

. with a piece of concrete Wednes-

day - while playing with her 4-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,

I 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 gaid. She even coached Vickie to tell police about a ‘dirty old man” who drove up in a dark car, 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! into any trouble.”

A Cat Is a Cat Is a Cat—

Army Catalog Written | By or for 1st Graders?

By ANDREW TULLY Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. 26—When

1 Take something called ‘‘cantharides,” for instance. It isn’t described. Neither is™ “holder,

|figure any dumbbell knows what heard of a screw driver, a fat

|'diasety] monoxime, regent,” is. But they want to be sure every-

paragraph explains its functions: “A manual or power-driven tool,

WASHINGTON COURT body knows what they're talking designed to impart a rotary mo-

protector Irvin (Pat) Patrick

figured today he had seen every-|

thing.

He. and some

man’s.”

{cataloging job of military items

friends were being done by the Munitions!

and is controlled by hand.” Similarly, “fruit salad, canned,”

But in case nobody has ever

Whiz Bang Still Not Boss

The pedestrians he wouldn't let

PORTLAND, Ore.’ Jan. 26—A Wednesday in a sump hole in a jaywalk weren't the only ones 21-year-old mother told police to- vacant lot not far from her home. disappointed on Forrest Allison's [tling plant early today was day she secreted the body of her

|set deliberately, probably by

birthday. Mr. Allison didn't get his way yesterday, either, on his 60th birthday. After he went off duty as traf-

Maryland Sts., his wife gave him a birthday present he didn’t want, She treated him to a meal out. He prefqrs eating at his own kitchen table at home, 6236 Park Ave. Rapid Fire Operator All day yesterday fellow policemen called congratulations to the man they call “Whiz Bang” be-

cause of the rapid-fire traffic operations. “Willie,” the old-timer newse

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, 1919. His service in the military police in World War I 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 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.

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Glass-Breaking Theft $159.38 Here

An after-hours ‘“‘customer” who 1 iing a door glass with a brick wrapped in handkerchiefs 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

were delivered to the President. Maj. Gen. Floyd Parks, Army

mitted suicide 11 days after the chief of information, said he had| looting of his home.

|ordered a check. He said it would! take some time, since General Lowe was in Korea for 10 months, and Army communications men!

sages daily. ! “The best I can find out,” Gen-|

creases of about 38 cents for spent some $3000 of the money era] Parks said, “any message yard workers and 233 cents for on a tour of exclusive shops and to the White House buzzes right in New York andron through.” claimed they were “taken” the rest by ‘‘sharpies.”

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

proposed arbitration - of pigtrict Court Dee. 26, Eileen Sonal opinion.

was given an indeterminate sen-| tence in Framingham Women's Increase Reformatory. However, the judge already stipulated that she was to spend

The White House had no comment.

Sale of Trigger Looms Despite Fans’ Protest

WHARTON, Tex., Jan. 26 (UP) 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 | said 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 younger successor standing by in| Rogers’ stable. i Ferguson's rich offer for Trig-| ger came on the eve of Rogers’ apearance today at the Houston fat stock show rodeo. Telephone calls, telegrams and letters from Roy's and Trigger’s young admirers deluged stock show headquarters yesterday. 4 One boy threatened; “If you sell |ole Trigger, I'm gonna switch to, Gene Autry.”

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 meet-

ing here yesterday that Canada's

booming pulp and paper industry hit an all-time production high|

in 1951.

The output of all grades of pulp |

and paper reached $0.8 million tons in 1951, Fowler said, an increase of nearly 9 per cent over 1950 production.

Soldier Arrested

FRANKFORT, Jan. 26 (UP)— The FBI and local duthorities prepared today to turn over William 'M. Slaton, 24, formerly of Evansville, to military authorities at Peru, The FBI sald Slaton deserted from -the U. 8. Army at Indiantown Gap, Pa., last' August. He wag arrested yesterday.

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AT CANARY COTTAGE No, obligation except edst of dinner,

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suddenly. There, among the dead crows, lay one wearing a nicely tailored red sweater. Patrick believes someone's pet crow escaped, joined Ris

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‘DARK VENUS' — Jeanette | Wilby, 19, Canadian citizen, is | being held by immigration au- | thorities at Mijami, Fla, for claiming falsely to be a citizen | of the U. S. Miss Wilby, who | does a strip dance under the name of "Dark Venus' at Miami Beach, faces deportation.

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but never County line. After felling a num-/gent” is described no further. {ber of crows, they were picking But somebody has gone into assorted fruits.” lup 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, {define it as “a coat to be worn ‘‘shirt worn by a baseball player.”

by men.” Well-Known Terms Defined In other words, although the Munitions Board is meticulous

wild about defining well-known items, military

sands of supplies ordinarily known only to specialists.

Doug Marks 72d Birthday

By United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 26—The old soldier who was the No. 1 news story of 1851 was a bit older today. , Douglas MacArthur spent his 72d birthday quietly at home. But he showed no signs of fading away. e 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 requests to make speeches; when supporters in! six states insist

dential primaries. The general has informed his supporters in the various states {that he will withdraw his name from any primary in which it is

{eligible.

Predicts Good Radio

| Reception Next Week

By Science Service

| WASHINGTON, Jan. come through quite well for the next week with the possible exception of only fair reception today and Sunday, radio forecasters at the National Bureau of Stand-

ards here predicted this morning. |

A storm brewing in the Ionosphere, however, is expected to cause trouble Feb, 1 to 3. No blackouts are predicted, but weak signals and fading will probably interfere with reception.

Our service embodies all that goes to give that after-feeling of satis-

faction; .the satisfaction of a beautiful tribute to a loved one yet no burden to those left.

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entered and that he will not be- - come a candidate. The supporters thave taken the ‘line that that {statement makes him all the more

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halves, quarters and tid-bits of! And a “shirt,

For Interchange Purpose Primary object of the cataloging program is to give identical items identical names]

|friends, and became a victim of it doesn’t bother to identify thou- and numbers so that they can be! circumstances. : . When asked if the sweater was knitted, Patrick quipped, crow-shayed.”

interchanged easily among the) three services. But apparently the {Munitions Board is taking the] word “identical” literally.

| For example, there is a $1500 {woodworking 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 eliminated, 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 mext month before a [House Armed Services Committee headed by F. Edward Hebert | (D, La.). |

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told police the money, which was

in a sack, was apparently the

only thing missing.

No Dangerous Drugs

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