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RUNAWAY KITTY—Ruthie
The Devil You Say—
Old Satan the Is Glad to Be Back
By LLOYD B. WALTON |
“Satan,” a 6-month-old tom cat irked because his happy home had “gone to the dogs,” is back home with his little mistress today after some extensive globetrotting. The jet-black cat was returned to 10-year-old Ruthie Becker,4227
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_ Cornelius Ave., yesterday after a/
week-long absence. | Last Sunday, Ruthie’s aunt] brought her 2-year-old toy Manchester. to “stay for an extended!
2d YEAR—NUMBER 331 “oe
Rising Water
i Of Floods
Picture on Page 2 | By CHARLIE MILLER i Rising water following | rains brought “wide-| {spread Hoosier floor threats x last night and one rain swol{len. stream had already {a life, ; Colder weather forecast for Indiana may abate the danger of { major floods, but reports from as far away as Columbus, O, .indiA | cated record rains there may af[fect the Ohio River Valley. The B® Ohio downpours were listed as
heavier than those starting the disasrous 1937 flood. fe Two major Indiana highways &
. |and several secondary roads were) § reported closed by the high U. S. 31 was closed south &
|waters, ® of Franklin and 28 inches of {water temporarily stopped trafic on U. 8. 40 in West Indianapolis.
Boy Drowned
swollen creek near Martinsville while he was playing on tha slippery bank of the stream. His body was recovered a short time later) Becker happily hugs "Satan." other children. . > Police and Civilian workers took to boats to evatuate| : 15 to 20 persons in Cat whose homes were rising waters from Hurricane! and Youngs creeks. Four inches of rain drenched Johnson- County and it ported that the water was prob-
Ruthie’s mother, Mrs. Charles aply higher than at any time} Becker, wondered when the cat|gince the 1913 flood.
The two creeks overflowed and:
failed to appear for breakfast!
Monday morning. 0 . inundated Provice Park, only A phone call from Columbus, three blocks from the town’s
O., Tuesday solved the mystery.) ciness district. !
Some neighbors had moved to it | In Ft, Wayne, authorities said Columbus the day before, and yp at the Maumee River was riswhen they unloaded the moving |; steadily and was expected to van “Satan” was asleep under a ,.,.p flood stage within the]
blanket. ! i The Cat Welfare Society in Co. ONL 6W aS ville
lumbus provided a portable cage : ; , y rrun and the black cat came home via Se i he 3 ion)
Railway Express. The fare— Blue River and the Big Blue|
claimed
_ Six-year-old., Robert Lee Hag(gard of Wilbur was drowned : when he slipped into a rain’
by neighbors called to help «by|§ Defense §
Franklin| § invaded by}
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SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 1952
| ring: Threat’ O peedin Og H it-Run Car
Kills Two Women Here
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FIRST. AID FAILS—Mrs. Mary Throckmorton, knocked 100 feet by a hit-run car, dies in the
section Of 4.04 A second woman succumbed in
an ambulance on the way
rowe his life to the chance that g,y night and could not describe er weather swept over
visit jas when the trouble $4.36, including $1.19 insurance. |pican was reported to be *com-| started. “Stag” still is a barking nui- |; - rast? Hi ” The pup, “Stag,™ took great sance. But “Satan,” wiser and mo up fast” Highway 9 south of
delight in pestering “Satan.” But more tolerant:after his 342-mile Shelbyville Was closed,
even an alley cat's patience is round-trip, is just giving him a Road’ Closed
ing stream forced |U. 8. 27 between Richmond and]
0 » 'Rid x Mi d | Liberty. Victim of i 1e Isse pi rains were reported in
Rioters Take to Cover _ BERR MET presen AS Egypt Army Steps in
By United Press
| mate said “more than 100” were burning in Cairo was radioed| gid. A few minutes later the vicCAIRO, Egypt, Sunday, Jan, 27 killed or wounded. The figure in-|steadily to Prime Minister Win-|tjm died where she fell in the —The Egyptian government de- creased later and police said they/ston Churchill, aboard the lner|gtreet,
Driver Stops, Looks At Mangled Victims, Steps on Gas Again
By R. K. SHULL A hurtling, hit-run death car killed two women here last night, hurling the mangled body of one victim 100 feet, the other 50 feet. Witnesses said the driver halted the lethal vehicle,
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got out, took one look at one Of | mmm his bloody victims, then jumped
in his gory car and fled. S $ The ime were identified by ummary oO police as: a0 1 ? Mrs. Mary Throckmorton, 3 T d N whose body was hurled 100 feet 0 4 S ews by the impact. She was the * daughter of Mrs, Marie Schultz, 4 Th T 1130 Martin St. # e imes Miss Betty Stinson. 23. who . was knocked 50 feet. Police were Local unable to learn her address im- . Page mediately. ; Some: vie, some shy in govLate last night police still ernorship race ............ 3 hunted the death car—described! There's a bite in that gross as a late model Ford with a income tax 1aw .......... 8
smashed headlight. its hood bent A displaced person, 13, doubled
and blood-splattered. subscribers on a paper . roule .isiiiiiiinnirirnne, 9 ‘She Landed Right There’ Catholic Youth Organization
leaders plan trajning classes
Yvonne Ellis, 19, of 2047 Car- " rollton Ave. furnished police this zn Ro Hat oon toe evs vivid eyewitness description of the eiod women rap UMT, “ tragedy: RIE saeeibis eecinpiiid “T was waiting for a bus at Vir- PY es ne Mek Lincoln Day 3 ginia. ‘Ave. and New Jersey st.| tats when the two women came out of Editorial the tavern (239 Virginia) and Page
started across the street. “This car was coming from, town, , “It hit them square in front of] | the tavern (about 100 feet from {an intersection). Hoosier sketchbook . , « by “One woman flew right toward, J. Hugh O'Donnell +...... 18 Congress Roundup ., + « Truman’s ‘Price of Peace’ budget a sets two new records s.... 18
She pointed dramatically to, National Page the spot where Mrs. Throckmor- go... zee. t administered : uver will enter Ohio tort was being frst) Semocratic presidential ‘Pris mary against possible oppo-
For many years Indianapolis has been fighting to get rail roads to mark their cross. ings properly , .. it appears to be a losing battle «..... 18
to General Hospital.
“She landed right 4here.” Pointed to Spot
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fall of Hoosierland's major cities. E Death by Scant 2 Hours hear ri ion dared maria! aan the fuming ola gos 70 gare a ro fet” ees stgem (outed ti, a EPI Ce 8 \inches; Terre Haute reported|{ of Cairo last night after day-| The rioters, protesting the kill-\a visit to the United States. | “pha traffic lane,) died in It's UMT or long, costly draft, Picture on Page 6 _exposure,” Sheriff's Capt. Morris three inches; Lafayette, 1.3 Inches] IONE arson and Honing, described ing and wounding of scores ofl Ships of the Mediterranean fleet|an ambulance on the way to Rep. Carl Vinson (D. Ga.), - By EMERSON TORREY |Settles said. ' land Ft. Wayne, 1.25 inches. “organized ia, erior as an| Egyptian police at Ismallia yes-|3)ready are steaming toward the General Hospital. Shairman of Be Lou se
“Or the rain would have Colder weather was forecast by| drowned him,” added Sheriff's Lt. the Weather Bureau with Indian-| dianapolis, a 35-year-old man William Owen. : apolis scheduled to have a high] missed death by two hours, Mr, Allen regained conscious- of 32 degrees. sheriff's officers said. (ness at the hospital long enough| Here in Indianapolis there were 8 Brvan Allen, Betsy Layne {to identify himself and tell depu- widespread reports of flooded A » Betsy Layne, ities he had been slugged and|pasements and some flooding of Ky., appeared to be winning hisirobbed in the rear of the hote} atl,jty streets fight for life late last night inl458 E. Washington St., where he y Be ic. Blackouts Te. Harriton Hospital rad been staying. Two ik 2 iacRauts turning He was suffering from shock He had been wearing a “g00d” mij day into midnight for short|! and exposure after lying in suit and topcoat, he said, and periods, and the on-and-off showseveral inches of water in the carrying “quite a bit” of money ers made weather the talk of the) culvert for 12 hours. =v and a watch. All were missing. town here yesterday. Doctors said his condition still peputies said Mr. Allen told As low dark, rolling clouds) was serious. If he recovers he Will {hem he had been drinking Fri- heralding the arrival of the cold-| the city, motorists were forced to turn on
Slugged, stripped and left to die in a culvert southwest of In-
took 17-year-old Luke Rosebrock|y.c oo ia0¢ down that lonely gravel road at)
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noon yesterday instead of two or SE RT more hours later. Plane Crash Kills
. : The youth had gone to a dump|2 Aerial Fox Hunters about a quarter mile west of his| ' SPRING VALLEY, Minn., Jan. high waters ¢
between 2 and 3:15 p. m. by sluggish
home, 4404 Bluff Rd., hunting for (2g (UP)—Two men on an aerial|eWers and overflowing drainage hundreds of suspects after the scrap tin to use in building a/fox hunt were killed today when ditches. The Hayes Doan resi-imartial law proclamation was istheir light plane crashed in a|dence at 1133 Edgecomb Bt. WaSisued. The suspects were charged ; invaded by six inches of water|wijth subversive activity,
rabbit hutch. Luke heard a groan. He ranirieiq,
to the culvert, saw a man’s hand! The victims were identified as|2® 2 drainage ditch overran its
son. <Caffery called on King| | Farouk and protested the burn-|tens of millions. /ing of American buildings. Among them were a motion pic-
jagency and a filling station. burned,
beard’s Hotel, which demonstra-|it into a sheet of flames. tors ignited with benzine,
terday, roamed through
sia. Damage from arson ran into
American Ambassador Jeffer-
Mobs began in the morning by setting fire to two movie houses automobile! in the heart of Cairo. They spread from there to nearby ShepNearly 35 buildings had been heard’s Hotel, the “monument to including famed Shep-|British imperialism,” and furned
ure theater, an
By the end of the day they had
> : burned at least 35 buildings, inCalled Surversism |cluding American property, the The Ministry of Interior an-
Swedish consulate, and French
their lights. The eclipse-like dark-/ nounced that military law had|stores and shops. ness came in two short periods/peen declared and the Egyptian
The government announced
+ army seized control of this city of | shortly before midnight the cit Many residents complained of|2 million population. (was lee with es storioney
| The government rounded up at all focal points and fire bri-
gades trying. to extinguish the fires.
J. M. Boyer, Canadian trade
(In Washington, the State De-|COmmissioner, was missing and
Tens of thousands of riote t| streets i hat appeared to — cajial'? yore and ioters set! streets in what appeare algeti rted from rus. ¥ a= fie to property owned by Ameri-|planned uprising, activity was reported from CYPrus|anapolis’ fifth and sixth traffic cans, Britons and other nationals “War! War! War!” with Britain.pe rushed to reinforce canal 20ne| year.
and called for war with Britain. |Some asked for a pact with Rus-|garrisons,
intense
troop| mpe two deaths were INdi-| SAYS wevruevsrenens dassrves chanting foriajong with indications they would | ¢o¢alities since the start of this| Foreign . Tioielf = Page " | “The driver kept on coming, West fears truce talks are Egyptian Foreign Minister | jj he couldn't stop,” Miss Ellis] doomed ......cecivesnaass 3
Salah El Din Pasha announced .,ntinued, “He pulled in at the United States asks special officially In Paris that he is re- curb and went back to look at United Nations session on turning to Cairo Monday to cope Mrs. Throckmorton. Korea ,, , World Report ... 19
y with the crisis. He has been in “I went over to look at her. Sports
Paris as Egypt s chief delegate too. inoi to the United Nations. | nois toppled from unbeaten | YRAKE csien-insssnssnnsnss 11
British Begin Moving s | Purdue drops fourth Big Ten . “Next thing I knew, he was! game ........ Sass eanernans 11 [Women and Children back in his car going south on Butler beats Valparaiso .... 11 | ISMAILIA, Suez Canal Zone,|New Jersey.” | Basketball scores (Jan, 26 (UP)—British troops| Police Sgt. William Hague, who! Gehrman wing Wanamaker evacuated 350 British women and is also a deputy coroner, said he MUG sursssnrsnvrsssennsens dl childfen today from the Tel El nover before had seen accident|Tech beats Cathedral ........ 11 Kebir salient which is within the victims 80 badly mangled. | Gerstmeyer wins Wabash Valrange of Egyptian guns. “Their arms, legs—practically, ley title «....... vervesriine 18 The families were moved In| gyery bone in their bodies—were Eddie Ash's Sports Roundup 183 LA across the Rew Yesert roud broken.” : | Kegler's Korner, bowling news 18 an emporarily house n e ; Joe WIIHAMS sevescsscsvosece 14 ’ "| Sgt. Hague said he investigated arrison’s Stadium Club. To an gh Hague fatal hit-run acci- Race results ...ocvsvevoncnne 14
g morrow they will be sent to a safer area at Fayid. Some may|dent at the same spot three years| Women's
Badly Mangled
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sticking out. . {Raymond T. Hagen, 26, the pilot, Hmits, 602 E partment saw: no immediate need | feared dead. A member of the return to England. ago. Ah Indianapolis cab. driver Second generation act Deputies ound the unconscious and James Campbell, 29, a pas-|.: Mrs, Carl Ramey, 3 ]| LC consider evacauating some 1700| British embassy said Mr. Boyer| British troops at Tel El Kebir “53 the victim then. Rit Shortridge Junior Vaudevictim — Mr. Allen — crammed senger, both of Austin. Minn, |FerrY St. reported that severall Smericdns in Egypt. It estimated|had been seen standing, wounded, were taking necessary measures Yve only had one NILTMAL org ererrssrstonys cee 2 het Jdriver in 10 years whose con- Real Estate Ball parties &o 26
families in
almost completely into the cul-| vert. He had been Stripped to] Auto Gets Burial water surrounded their homes. suly Hi A 4 other MEMPHIS, Tenn (UP)—Carl| Residents in the 400 block of Erie: J {Cannon drove a. used car for aS, Sheridan Ave. had their baseses. {few weeks and then buried it. Mr.|ments flooded as a drainage beMr. Allen was taken to General |Cannon explained :that the car'hind their houses overflowed. Hospital and transferred later to/was always giving him trouble, | The intersection of Sheridan Ave. Ft. Harrison. {and that burying it was the best!and English Ave. was reported “In another two hours—four way he could think of to get rid covered by water, two to three at the most—he'd have died of|of it. {feet deep.
Conly Triplets Are One Year Old |
The Conly triplets are one year a old. The Times thought you might like to see the first birthday picture of Timothy, Sally Susan and Emily Louise. So here it is. You probably would like to hear, too, how their 35-year-old engineer-father is. getting along raising his houseful of five youngsters. The triplets’ mother, Mrs: Harriet Bishop Conly, died three days after their birth in Methodisé Hospital Jan. 21, 1951. She left two other children, Michael, now 6, and Danny, 5.
‘Easier Than One’ “Probably easier than raising one child,” said Morris F, Conly, 6240 Kingsley Dr. “They're used to group attention rather than individual attention.
~ “We have a full-time housekeeper.’ And my parents, who live nearby, are ready with a helping hand, i : 2 “So are Mrs. Conly's parents, when ome of fhe children gets
Pasha was named governor-gen-| eral, | nounced all schools were closed down indeRnitely. Today's rioting began with demonstrations at the schools.
[through the streets as the army sought to restore order in this |city, of more than 2 million. The gdévernment proclaimed a 6 p.m.8 a.m. curfew throughout Egypt! under martial law.
night, lit by the flare of the burning buildings sought safety behind bolted
doors S04 SHylief. Troops Pa&-| gtalin's books, unlike Hitler's
Egypt would =ever diplomatic relations with Britain tomorrow.
Caffery called on King Farouk at Abdin Palace and:there were re-
ports he was trying to avert the a series of articles starting. in
neighbor hood { t t 1000 : i r w WW e burned 0 » ithat abou America wi nea the indo of ‘th u meet any E ptian . y | cans ere tonight t J gY
Turf Club. :
Cairo was put under a mili- | J. L. Craig, a formfr financial
tary governor general after the adviser to the Egyptian govern- police.
daylong rioting in which tens of| ment, also was reported dead. thousands of arsonists set fire|ngel
to American and British prop-| erty and called for war with] Britain. Government reports later eT said - that Cairo had quieted 2nd hospitalized. down. :
Thomas, secretary of the Turf Club, and an insurance agent named Kilpatrick were wounded
British Expect Cairo
(British embassy reports to
military headquarters in Suez said To Break Relations the Farouk as they were anti-British, ish officials tonight frankly Put ere was no immediate clari- 4 hticipated that Egypt will break Ica lon of the Ministry of In- off diplomatic relations with Brittesor s reference to a revolu- ain and expressed concern for the
riots were as
ant-King| 1 oNDON, Jan. 27 (UP)-Brit-
safety of 10,000 British civilians there. and the government an-| The Egyptian cabinet met in
universities {emergency session today possibly ehaltie ado decide on the fateful step in
Premier Mustapha EI Nahas
tween the two nations which are |warring in all but official terms. News of the wild rioting and
Curfew Imposed Minister of Interior Faud Sirag|
El Din Pasha said these stern Read Stalin’s
measures were being taken by the government to cope with an “organized revolution.”
‘Blueprints’
Stalin, like Hitler, wrote a, “Mein Kampf.” He Hlueprinted his plans to conquer the world, Have we waited too long—as we did with Hitler—to stop another world disaster? Stalin placed Asia as a prime target for communism, 2nd said the West would make certain mistakes which would help him. Have we made them?
Machine guns had rattled |
Smoke hung over the city to-|
while residents
“Mein Kampf,” have been hidThe cabinet met amidst reports dén from thewworld. - Only a read these ‘books. ; One of these, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer George Snell, tells you what Stalin's plans are in
U. 8. Ambassador Jefferson
The Times tomorrow, ol
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the deteriorating relations be-|said the elder child was re-\,. piamed and sent to a reform
handful of Westerners have. Floyd South's report that Sherrie police:
counteraction to yesterday's bat-| Science bothered dim enough toj tle against Egyptian auxiliary make him give himself up,” the British officers said their| sergeant said. , lengths — it's buyer's would remain indefinitely, “It’s tougher to solve than muri cpgice ,,,..eiieencennass 28 rounding up guer- der—there's no motive 10 1raP pyijeq and brides-to-be .... 30 the culprit.” Casual . homes ideal for summer furniture «...... 3% | Teen of the WeeK i.eoevs... 34 | Ideas for basement window | designs and gardening
‘I Had to Tell the Truth’
Mother Hears Girl, 4, Other Features: Accuse Her Qs Slayer | AMUSEDENtS +evesesee 22-23
Eddie Ash |. Books By United Press a- piece of concrete by. Vickie| “Editorials ....eveeesseee 18 PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 26— while the children were playing in|. Rix-It-Yourself seseesesss 15 Four-year-old Vickie Kader faced|the basement of their home. Forum ....... ae ; | She sald she became panic-| Harold Hartley sseseseee 35 her young mother tonight and ae strickeh when she found Sherrie] Kegler's Korner sesvesess 13 | cused her of killing her 3- Ellen's body and disposed of it| |year-old sister, but the mother because she feared Vickie would!
Organization and club news 27 Spring coats come in all
j3100ps {in Ismailia, {rillas and maintaining order.
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| Kader, and 21-year-old Mrs, Jada|yaq taken her sister away in a |Z. Kader, who was charged wWith|gark automobile while they
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|first degree murder, the youngster pjaveq outside their home Just Jq Sovola s..eeveeseses 17 |said she saw her mother smother| star dark Wednesday. Bports. e.iisteses ee 11-15 ‘her sister, ‘Sherrie Ellen, and | Hoax Started Hunt Washington Calling «+... 19 throw her into a sump hole. | The kidnap hoax started. a; Earl Wilson «.eeesvesss IT | I just had to tell the truth, | ¢tatewide police hunt for the! Women's .....eveesss 26-368
Mommie,” Vickie sald. : {phantom child-gnatcher. . “If you don't stop saying those 5 Vickie today changed her story — things,” Mrs. Kader told her |. nd said’ she had accompanied we - |child, “you will never see Mommie|,,,, mother to ‘a vacant ot TAX Bonanza List (again. © about a quarter of a milé from . “L can’t help it. 1 had to tell their southeast Portland nome! |g on Page. 5 them,” Vickie sobbed. - = |with her sister Wednesday night.| i “' z Files Charges |" The mother held her hand over| ATe you on:Uncle Sam's tax Det. Capt. William .L. Browne Sherrie Ellén's mouth until she bonanza list? |filed first degree murder charges stopped moving and then threw The Times again’ today pube |against Mrs. Kader on the basis her down a 20-foot deep gas lishes another installment of the
of Viekie's story a Coroner | su hole, Vickie told list of thousands of Hoosiers who S ; ¥ and Cor jcompany sump e have unclaimed federal income *
face with’ Mrs, tax refund checks coming to them. ; The checks were returned to the federal tax office because of ine
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{Ellen died of ‘asphyxiation and’ Brought face-to-(drowning. a? |Kader for the first time since | Mrs, Kader, who originally told her mother was arrested, Vickie Se police Wednesday that Sherrie reiterated her statenfents. ~|COrTect addresses. a Ellen had been kidnaped, broke| Earlier Vickie led detectives to Sheek the list on page 5. You under ceaseless questioning and|the scene and showed them where | 27 ® one of the lucky ones.®
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