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No Hoosier teen-agers will he drafted into the Army ‘in PE March .ca.ivvvve. vase Blame exposure for deaths of three elderly patients at Richmond State Hospital during a boiler breakdown last month aE Hoosiers carry thedr state pride to the front in Korea. . Surveyor lists 14 county { bridges “needing replacement.’

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Doctors use $32 gadget to revive heart. of nurse that stopped almost two hours.. | Supreme Court to hear arguments on the place of religion in public schools Famous Blackhawk restaurant in Chicago closed in horsemeat probe ..... Detroit's car makers say they could find their own scarce materials . . . last of a series of three articles by Charles

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Lucey ....c.iuvi. Ceeseeann 6 or / = Latest developments in the A : i 4 : 9 - i Presidential race ...... $:+.. 6 iy iW C's SEL ent Mines” GOLDEN GLOVES ACTION—There's plenty of it in the ring. FlOuse OK" Truman plan to RD a ’ . . . overhaul U.S. tax bureau.. 23 we / But the camera catches it reflected in the expressions of Claude Forel 5d ETT Lett. That jolting left below the wishbone hurt him, too. oreign Pass eo . Xo I = "age : €zech in UN lashes at U, 8, brands Oatis part of spy > ring sent to prepare for ‘‘new war’ ses vansieans dese sane 6 Sketches by Gene Feing

{Closer ties between Great Brit- { ain and France predicted .. {Eisenhower gives “little Euro- { peans” big interest in 1952 | campaign Sagas of the story of a

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{Joe Stalin fights a “creeping war” and counts on the West to lose it by default Japanese are drifting back to | their old habits—with a { modern touch ..... {Iran shuts down all U. 8. information centers outside of Tehran . | Editorial Page Ie: . {Why did the Civil Service Commission delay tax ‘case | decision? . . . by Richard

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Starnes . . . also an edi- | torial . . . Boston ImpuRA OR {Can the U. S. back its tough talk to Russia ..... Ed Kennedy, Times staffer in Korea and Japan, knows what blood means to a soldier . . . Have You Given . an editorial .. Frederick C. Othman tells how anti-beer folks pounced on | TV ads at Interstate and | Foreign Commerce Committee hearing |

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| round Sia visveens . | Eddie Ash's Sports Roundup. . { Attucks - Sacred Heart tops | high school cage card .... Aggies slow up Lovellete, beat | Kansas

| Wham-Doozie streak can put Caps hep ....... sainieievieniiin Pistons rub out Olymp's home streak | Injury i | liams out of Marines ...... {Hint Walcott-Matthews bout | all set .......... : | Kegler's Korner

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Amusements .......e004. 16 THE OLD ONE-TWO-—Black Trunks has him on the ropes. Eddie Ash ..... sevevsers 30 Mr, Lett will follow up with him in the semifinals at the Armory, | Frank Anderson ......... 31 711 NI Pennsylvania St., tonight. Bridge sesessssnnsianins 11 mae ion ie i mr—— | FditorialS .yavaessienseas 22 .- lo BIEESRErt coveeerrvseess Have a Chair, Mother Dear— pod rm anntasseres 3 FOTUM sescsnessscesnanss 22 pi ] th i d | MOVIES ..uureiviriinvnses 18 easure S : e n | Radio, Television ....... 18 :: Society ...eveeianvitieis 10 : : | Bd S0Vola 4uusevisicerns 2 Resu t 0 ot eat Sports ..... seessnnsens 30-32 1 Earl WIHBOR .cvssnieses,'N By Science Service WOMEN'S «.vivsirrivitees M1

WASHINTON, Jan. 31-Got any candidates-for the hot seat? Your mother-in-law? Politicians of the. “other” party?" Now you can literally offer them one. The hot seat has been invented and, this week Glenn F, Butler, Detroit, received patent number 2,583,816 for it. - A fuel tank, with a burne provided with wicks gives o the heat, in the “seat chamber.’ This heats the seat and the back of the chair, and the seat and the back of its occupant. Canned heat, if desired, can be used. : tn If no one is sitting in the chair, the asbestos covers can be thrown. back and the chair. used as a stove, the inventor

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ON THE KOREAN FRONT, Jan. 31 (UP) — A Belgian-made automatic rifle which is lighter and smaller than the U. 8. Army Browning is being used in Korea |by Belgian troops, officers dis-

Trauyens of the Belgian battalion said many more of the new a lon The gun| {first was produced in 1949 but! [this is its first use ‘in combat. The weapon fires at three speeds —single action and two’ auto-| matic.speeds of 355 rounds per

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DEFIANT DEFENDANT — Dr. Jules F. LaDuron, Muncie, glares defiantly at state's witnesses in his manslaughter trial

CHECKING PHOTOS—State and defense 8 attorneys hover as Police Photographer Leslie Corn identifies photos of slaying victims.

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and guts description of his MeCEEA {fight to the death with two Terre — Tilley Haute brothers when he took the |stand as the first witness in his own defense today. The state rested without pre|senting further witnesses ' this ~% morning in Delaware Circuit . |Court before an all-male jury and |Judge Joseph Davis. The powerfully built ex-gridder ZA : ’ % oq | told of living in fear and fright ¥ : ».

~~iof 'a man who came to his office de ; [repeatedly and extorted money TELLS OF BATTLE—Russell Homerick calmly tells of seeing (from him by threatening “to take one of slaying victims knocked through window, then dragged back in house, following bitter battle in Muncie doctor's home.

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always kept his right hand held 1937. 4 \suggestively under his left lapel! Describing the fatal battle paring oe bolie at Hig son go! “as if he had a gun.” | scene, the doctor said for several|”2¢d ran 0: 3n¢ told m at 30 Identifies Carter {months® he~ had heen placing fellow's iying out on the walk, he | He said he paid out sums total- Raper-wrapped wrenches around fell through the window. 30 ing more than $2000 to the man | MS office for protection and also’ The doctor said he told his son [later identified as-Ralph Carter, put a revolver in his desk drawer. to carry the man back in,

30 tor whose slaying the doctor is a But the state's witnesses yester- . . ay said they watched Ralph CarOn the night of Nav. 6. he ter smash through the shattering made an appointment with a glass at the climax of a bitter man who later was identified as fist-fight with the doctor's 21-

Siebert Carter, younger brother year-old son,

Made Appointment oY on trial. The doctor never saw a gun on 31 carter, he said, he simply thought 1 Carter had one. x i 1h As a prelude to blackmail, el |doctor Rob he received threaten- of Ralph, When the younger man 31/ing phone calls, over a period of; Same in, Dr. LaDuron said, he months, telling him “fellows who attempted to extort $750 more 32 don’t follow instructions get taken ©" the accusation the doctor had 32 for a ride.” He said the phone Performed an illegal operation on calls had been received several ep 4 months before mid-1950, when hs ead of paying, however, Dr. Ralph Carter appeared at his of-| -aDuron started fighting Siebert

fand subdued him, H i fice menacing him with the bulg-'2" . He said that ing coat. 5 g {When questioning of Siebeft re-

indicted in the ‘robbery of the : y vealed he was the broth y ‘Thought He Would Kill Me man who previously id 2 ee Johnson County National Bank at

Dr, LaDuron. sprinkled his tes- mailed hi, he sent his son, Jacq, Olathe, Kas., last Nov. 23.

timony with comments like “Ito summon the brother w ( ! A aitin George A. Heroux and Gerha 10 was scared . I thought he outside in the car, 8 A. Po wers charged with any

16 wot ill me. 8 oi The doctor, who previously had $60,000 robbery. The two men, f > SA Sal quietly in the witness chair. now at large, were among 30 perated descrip- sons indicted by the federal grand

2 On FBI List Indicted In Kansas Bank Robbery

TOPEKA, Kas. Jan. 31 (UP) Two men the FBI's most wanted criminals list have been!

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sums of money. eral J. Howard McGrath.

Each time the scene was virtually the same. the defendant said. Carter would demand money, saying “fellows who don’t pay up end up in a ditch with a bullet in their guts.” Each time Dr. LaDuron would protest, he said. But each time ,. he handed over money, warning wp Carter on his last visit prior to fur the slaying that it was his last de payoff.

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‘The Fight Was On’

“He hit me and the fight was e the doctor said dramatically. hings happened so fast and 50 iously and everything was so sperate from that time on. I

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Nowhere in his testimony did From there he refer to the extortion demands blow-by-blow’ being connected with his long times he was missing wife, Freda LaDuron. At on and beate the slaying scene, newsmen testified he said the blackkmail went

he went into a description of the knocked down, piisd n with blunt instruments by the two brothers. He said he wondered why his son, Jacq, was not aiding him and [a glanced down to see Jacq sprawled -F jon the floor. “I thought they had killed him . «+ I thought they'd Killed my boy,” said the doctor in a choked voice, . It was after this he fought his {way down the' hall to his desk, - grabbed his gun and shot Siebert, ‘he said. > Instantly, he testified, Ralph charged him and that he shot [Ralph four times. He said even Jafter being wounded Ralph continued fighting and overcoming {him until Carter finally “sunk to [the floor.” Body Carried In ‘At this point, the doctor attempted to clear up how Ralph's (body got outside the home and, iwhy it was carried back in. as two state witnesses testified yesterday.. ; pe i The doctor said it was after

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Lie Tests Didn’t Clear Brilliant DePauw U. Junior in Hatchet Death

Times Special YOUNGSTOWN, O., Jan. 31—A brilliant Indiana cole lege student, who considered becoming a minister, was held for further questioning today in the “vicious” and “psychopathic” hatchet slaying of his grandfather. - rtp - William E. Echard, 20-year-old student at DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind, was kept in Youngstown jail after extensive lie detector tests “failed to clear him fully,” police said. His grandfather, T4-year-old George Washington Brantner of Youngstown, was hacked “about

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100 times” on the head with a Photo, Page 7. . hatchet. Echard said he found : «+. the body in a basement coal bin 'wo = work dits : ry ‘ Saoai) WOrKHIE | bandas at the Echard home, where Mr,

Brantner lived. Also -under police guard was the vouth’'s mother, Mrs. William Echard Sr., daughter of the Richard W.' Pearce, 36. told hatchet victim. Police kept watch sheriff's deputies he was alone in over her in a Youngstown hos. his place, the Hickory Lodge, 5954 pital, where she was treated for E. 38th St., when the robbery tool: | 2 heart ailment caused by. shock place ‘shortly after 8 a. m, of the horror death.

The bandits missed $600 Mr. Brilliant and Superior Pearce had put aside just before, Young Echard is a junior at they arrived. DePauw, studying under a Rector “I was counting money in my Scholarship. University officials office, getting ready to go to’ tha| described him as “brilliant . . , bank,” Mr. Pearce said. and superior” in scholastics, with ‘ Want Your Money’ nearly all grades “A.” “I ‘heard someone in the lunch- The slender, retiring student room and went to the door. I saw was active in church affairs on a man standing on the other side the campus and in Greencastle, of the counter. He said: Church and school officials said “This is a holdup.” {he “seriously considered” entering Mr. Pearce said the man pro- the ministry. He belonged to tha duced a blue-steel revolver, said,| Oxford Fellowship, a group of stue “I want your money,” went past dents planning clergical careers, {him into the office and scooped up! A roommate, Jim Lyon of New 1$1300 in bills on Mr. Pearce's| York City, today told The Indian|desk. He failed to see $600 al- apolis Times that young Echard

robbed the owner of a suburban drive-in cafe of $1300.and locked him in a near-freezing cooler for 30 minutes,

{cabinet in the office. {fered from a serigus kidney ail | ‘Mr. Pearce said the unmasked Ment and was hospitalized for a | robber was “not excited at ali. | Short time about a month, ago. He wore a trench coat and light, ‘Seemed Concerned’ gray hat, and spoke in what Mr.| ‘He seemed concerned about his Pearce called a “Boston accent.” 8randfather suffering,” Mr. Lyon He demanded Mr, Pearce's| Said. | pocketbook, but gave it back| Dr. David Belinsky, Mahoning when it proved empty. Then he County coroner, said the elderly orderdd Mr. Pearce to the base-. Man was hacked about the top ment. The bandit apparently of his head “about 100 times.” knew the layout of the building This is one of the most vicious Second Man Waiting slayings I have ever seen,” he A second man, who was wait- 'ePorted. ing in the basement, ordered Mr. Derides Police Theory !Pearce to step into the cooler Ine Coroner ruled the death land closed and locked the door VAS homicide, and derided a pobehind him. The two then lert, '¢® theory which said it “might " Mr. Pearce waited a half-hour Possibly be suicide. a in 32-degree temperature before Sungslown Police Chief Eda soft-drink deliveryman ar- ward Allen said:

rived. heard his shouts and re- Hoe quming ual on hea B apar; Toarce’s Vite beings. However, whoever would v. Vo, 88D ug kill in Such a manner would robbery in the couple's house y

have to be a psychopathic per= sonality. We have not entirely discounted the fact that Brante ner himself may have been such a psychopathic personality, une known to all of us.” But Dr. Belinsky said it- was “ridiculous” "to suppose a man

trailer near the cafe. A husky sports. fan, Mr. Pearce told deputies: | “I always said I would fight if {anyqne tried to hold me up, But I didn’t.” : The Hickory lL.odge was burg{larized twice at night within the

r could have hacked himself = Hast 30. days. Each time, the in- orten and severely. 1 |truders Broke into the cigarette wohard's rather, William, 51

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(tests yesterday. He is the well-to-do operator of a garage in a Youngstown suburb. ‘Had No Enemies’ Police said Echard found his grandfather's body late- Monday, The-youth told police he thought he heard the elderly man “chop ping kindling” in the basement while he and his mother were upstairs. When he called Mr, Brantner to dinner about 15 mine utes later, there was no answer, so he said he went down to invese tigate. Police were told Mrs. Echard was in the kitchen preparing dine ner. They said they would quese tion her as soon as her condition permitted. The grandfather lived with the Echard family. Neighbors said he was “well liked” and “had no enemies.” Police said it was “impossible” {for a prowler to have broken into the house and attacked the elderly

Allied Jets Spar With Reds Without Loss EIGHTH ARMY HEADQUARTERS, ¥orea, Jan. 31 (UP) Allied jet fighters sweeping over {North Korea near the Manchurian border sparred lightly today with 50 Communist MIG 15s, but no losses were inflicted. Fighter-bombers raked Communist rail lines in -a wide area, cutting rails in more than 50 places in a drive to curtail the flow of supplies to the front, On the ground, United Nations troops stabbed into Red lines at 33 points along the 155-mile front.

How to Get More For Your Money

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home . . . and when you do, Man because the only.entry was buy your home through a through the upstairs where other reliable licensed real estate Members of the family were. They

said they ruled out robbery as a motive.

broker . . . you will get more for your money. A broker is capable of handling to your The FEchard youth - has - been best advantage, the myriad |8iven about five hours of lie dee of details connected with the |tector tests. police said

purchase of a home. Chief Allen said he would — em ~ —— | “thoroughly study” the detector NORTHEAST, lovely . 4-yr.-old, 2- ST » ‘ harm, [nod. DCR. hdw X firs. at- graphs before issuing a states ractive §. d bat} ute : p \ wn htr.,, oil rife storm Rash. Wa jer ment, but added we have not < very clean, 92,500 cleared him yet. GA-2 HAMNER GA-8922 | \ *

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“There Are More Questions”

His chief of ‘detectives, Wile liam W. Reed, said, “There are more. questions. we want to ask young Echard.” “We have made some headway in the investigation, but there tg ng breakdown in the case yet* . Mr. Reed said. % ~ At DePauw, Dean of Students Lawrence Riggs described Echard as ‘an “outstanding” student, — icongcientious, quiet and pleasant, . He explained the student was - 'home this week because of be. 'tween-semesters recess. ir Rd