Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 February 1952 — Page 1

Ey PORTO Me + RTT

agg >. A

UMP 35

soft and fine ipple, buttery sw: for Spring!

es, Downstairs

Golden Crest . rkling On a fle-Neck Blouse!

FASHIONS love and. her love, - »! The blouse EX » now into srinagl Fine : mbed cotton washable and rm flattering! hite or beigal | 51Z@5S, vall, medium,

ge.

1S5€

Sports Shop, Downstairs

RS 95

F SIZES!

srds and‘, and tai--2, but $3 ol

wo Ne ownsairs,

PT

.

FORECAST: Mostly cloudy and mild tonight and tomorrow. Showers tomorrow, Low tonight

62d YEAR—NUMBER 327 .

—— ———— ’

Entered as Second-Class Matter al PostoMoe

- # : . - SERA a= . : ~

» rim . Nd i Li 4 : 2

mes | ome |

-PRICE FIVE CENTS

35, high tomorrow 55.

= . —, . :

"ee

Indianapolis, Indiana. Issued Daily

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2; 1952 .

Heart Of Crawfordsville Ripped By °1 Million Fire

Two |. U. Students Injured in Smash-Up Still Clinging to Life

"Two Indiana University freshmen clung to the thin

northeast of Indianapolis. State police today blamed excessive speed for the violent crash on a rain-swept curve of Ind. 67 near Oaklandon. Three persons were killed outright. Another died in Methodist Hospital last night.

* - Photos of Victims, Page 10

It's

MURDER

On the Highways

Times. photos by Dean Timmerman.

ACCORDION—This used to be a 1951 Oldsmobile. Its hood was compressed into half normal

size and the engine was shoved into the ground. Two persons died, one was hurt in this car. (Note clothing from other car hanging on hood and fender). Ty

: The, Qaklandon Aragedy SM gon Gy ps Loe oY um Cub sitberation fo - attend the furs By BAROLD HARTLEY {flames which leaped three. stories... BN he ana tite Rr 2 ERNE bo Haar Svea of va oelewe tried SOM [0 Hues Wonuows Ket, [HGH opel “broth Fhe” naire that {Richard Eugene Canfer Haymond, former Indiana repre” Kingan's lst go the firsy] OuIy div _sicy separated fie 1 a to nine dead: in the first gix : sentative . who was Kill in Th: |blaze from St. Bernard's Catholie 2 hours of February. That was bury, 18, Anderson. - | bus-car crash here earlier ‘this/bomb on the revolt of stock- Church and St. Charles Catholia 1 more than one-eighth of January's Dallas Gene Rains, 19, An- week. holders today./ |grade school. i all-month toll of 69. | derson. | Court attaches immediately [na statemeént accompanied Eight to 10 families fled the: 4 Three Killed Near Loogootee s summoned the judge back from : Foo" | nearby Florence Apartments. a - ¥ Otis Dewey Smith, 53, ,,, funeral. The defendant re. DY the company's second proxy, Call ; Three of the nine were killed : : / W. R. Sinclgir; chairman of the| -alls for Help : ee Marion. turned to the defense table from Shy on another rain-slippery highway | . 9 iad board, said The fire broke out between 9:18 Mrs. M Smith, 53.- hi the courtroom corridor, where he , ; v near Luogooies yesteraay. They . . ae DY 8 had been jovially chatting with; ONE.—A meeting of the hoard and 9:30 a. m, but had gained Were 27 a erly Lobgoe!ee man’ wife. friends and spectators within a will be called to “WFe=H» Frederick | such headway when discovered and his wife, 384 another man, Killed in the Loogootee few feet of the room where the Willkie, president, and remove... crawtordsville firemen ime - An Evansville man killed early : © jury was deciding his fate. him from the board. or today on U. S. 41--apparently hy crash: , / mediately sent out emergency . oi i Crowd Into Room TWO-—Mr. Willkie cost the com- 1 I a’ hit-run driver. Latest fatality ‘Frank Morris, 74, Logoo- pany $1,043,452 in operating losses calls for help. : : was a Bloomington man killed in tee Spectators crowded back into; ine months. | Firemen hustied here from Ine a stone-loaded truck. . _ _ [the room and the entire court-| THREE—He proposed the re. dianapolls, Danville (II). Lae The two-car crash near Oak- - Mrs. Grace Morris, 55, his room settled down to wait for . | fayette, Covington, New Market, . A a - : the judge's return to see if a/election of the present board 3 y a landon was one 6f the most vio- wife Whe lak i 0 n—Edward Brownsburg, Veedersburg-. and 5 3 lent ‘and shocking in Marion 5, {verdict had been reached~in the With ohe sxception sident, | Linden. 3 is 3 Cognty history. Delmar Potts, 57, Owens- widely publicized trial, A deel ioe oe Gutted were the Hillsdale Mfg. Two of the students were boro, Ky. : |» After instructions by Judge oo "Ct" lace Mr. Willkie, CO and the Montgomery Ward 4 ‘thrown out of their shoes. They| , : | Davis, 12 Delaware County jurgrs| 0 id P " |Co. warehouse. Flames then 4 were tossed about 30 feet—over| Killed at Evansville: retired to the tiny jury room-to| FOUR-—<The $23 million In-|gpreaq .to the smaller Indiana th ; ‘choose between two word picfures Crease in sales was due to the| prnying Co. building ¥ the top of the other car—andl Andrew W. Beard, 18, Ev-1cho% rise in price level (Inflation), and, : i i of the Muncie man of mystery Pp | 5 landed in the mud alongside the i | ! 4 Mr. Willkie had nothing to .do| Higher Than Roof $ nsville | g highway. They were not among a . {painted by opposing attorneys in . 5 — those killed. : : {closing arguments yesterday. | with the Increase. The two buildings @hich burst : : \ : FIVE—Members of the inde-|into flames were only one block Ask Speed Laws : . . | The saint portrait was drawn dent stockholders’ mittee. | J 3 |by defense counsel, which pic-Pendent stockholders commitiee,| “of * n & a Animmediate clamor for speed 3 Killed in Crash p together with Mr. Willkie, have *0uth of ‘tie Montgomery County :

laws arose from Oaklandon citizens. Within an hour after tne Near Loogootee “ last of the déad was pried from, Times Stale Servies the tangled. steel, other drivers] were zooming past the spot at 70! miles an hour. >

GRIM TASK—State ‘police and ‘others pried with crowbars, jacks and Wrecker winch for more than an hour before last of dead was pried from car carrying IU students. Their convertible flipped on top of the Olds and locked into its hood.

~the three-lane highway.

Anderson, Besides the. two killed ¢o,r fniles south of here. and two critically injured, .oné was less seriously hurt.

So explosive was the crash that car collided head-on with one the college boys’ car flipped over driven by Delmar Potts, Owensonto the other car, ahd remained | boro. Kv. on top of its hood and windshield] - Mrs. Henrietta Potts, 55, avife unti] state police pulled them of Mr. Potts, was critically inapart. r jured and taken to Daviess CounGene Rains was killed in- ty Hospital in Washington. stantly, So was his TU com- The Potts family car swerved panion, ‘Richard Canterbury. {past the -ceriter line of the. high-

' 5 ; , this secret. . operating expenses of $8,962,513 It's around 50, degrees warmer * i Mg Bhi "oe! _s Ae oT an Cg the one These closing arguments con- and ie sa taxes (earn- this day than last year. £ ; state bolice I d h tM YLT . cluded the five-day trial which ings) of $1,577,226. 't Temperature in Indianapolis on 4 2 police pulled her out. Her - gtate police are investigating has packe rare ip. | . : 5 has packed Delaware County Cir Feb. 2, 1951, dropped to 19.1 dee Han died al 8 p = last‘the possibility Mr. Potts may cuit courtroom with spectators! The Matelnent had heen 10n] grees below zero, In Greensburg ethodist Hospital, 'have swerved to avoid hitting a craning their necks to get a peek |” pected. But up to today, Ringan thes : : | § to get a peek. [the "thermometers registered 35 ar Phillies was Jrivieg the hitch-hiker standing on the side af the doctor who has become a jgnagement had chosen to sit|y 00s helow—an JoRiater Hoo« rch Fed ) Shyer e asthe of the rain-swept highway. local “man of mystery” since the| ghv 0 8 tOREUS, Lo ster record. ve boys headed home for the Mr. and Mrs. Potts’ daughter, mysterious 1937 disappearance of , . ne Simmer whic gan last “m,niont's low is forecast at 35 week-end after semester exams|Fredda Mae, is a senior at In-/his wife Freda.’ November over Kingan manage- degree (above zero) ; » at nk (diana University. The parents. oo ment came to a. boll a week 880) "But don't get out the mothballs Jerry, 18, is" in critical condi-'were en route to Bloomington to| ‘harged in Slaying (Thursday -when Mr. Willkie's|,, 4 sta0n away heavy duds. -The tion at St. Vincent's Hospital. visit her. He is-charged with manslaugh- shareowner suporters made an groundhog could oN h ow Near him is friend "Harold E. ter. in the slaying of Ralph Car- OPen,bid for proxies. {today. Legend has it that-means Campbell, 18, in fair condition. } 3 | The appeal for support of the . ter, and faces trial on a similar|_ ° ! {six weeks of some rough weather Also critically hurt was the Man 44 Killed charge of Siebert Carter. They| ilkie program at-Kingan's was ) . fifth IU student, Donald. Current,’ 4 y / were the Terre Haute brothers he *igned by Patrick J. Callahan, oo GROUND hee h , 20. He is at Methodist Hospital. In 3 T k C h | claimed were “blackmailing” him. | NeW York State boxing commis-| g here wasn’t ! -1ruc ras ] 8 | slo Edward L att {venturing predictions. In fact, Severe Injuries | Jurors will retire today to weigh sioner. Edward Lee. an attorney, gp oo" qn" 00 t t # : ay Carton, a securftty| \ fon Times Sate Servier. the evidence with the these clos- And Jay Cart Fylide to if h Bop ure om. § The Smiths’ dayghter, Mrs. Jo-| ANGOLA, Feb, 2—Richard Y.. ing argumerits ‘ringing - in their analyst. ; J see e -could see his anus Ceenjant, 5 of Ruderson, Cantrell, 44, Bloomington, was ears: . : Increase in Sales Buster contentedly sat up on his il oi Ptr, Spud killed today when his limieftone-| &He (Dr. LaDuron) paid, not. They charged that Mr, Willkie hind feet and ate on apo ice The tragedy happened on loaded truck collided with ‘two dude Not wie not Fics Dut Jour had been Stripped. of authority, cream today. Now and then he . a . gentle curve of Ind. 67 other trucks near here. said Prosecutor Bernell Mitchell. and on orient /arank a sake. : just east of Quklandon Road One of the other trucks slipped| “That's not chicken feed, gén- plus $15,000 4 Sms a a the\pet of Diane Webb of 7 abou miles northeast .|past a stop sign on an icy county tlemen, and has he given you any only 11 months after he had been Di : d *Y i § i! : : : ; dianapolis. It was this same spot road and spun into the path of sensible reason for these pay-|hired : at Jae adopted him from a fame TRAP OF TWISTED STEEL-—Two Indiana University students were killed, three hurt when this where four were killed in a simi-| yr Cantrell's truck and another menis except that Ralph. Carter ‘They poiited to ihe company's Ry groundhogs of Bedford last convertible crashed with the ‘Oldsmobile. Two of ‘the injured were blasted out of their shoes, sailed 1ar accident during World War IL truck on U. 8. 67 about three held his hand in his-coat like he annual statement after less than . : i 30 feet over the other car. : os J Going inte Le Pail Swept Surve miles north of¢Angola. ' had a gun and that he was a year of Willkie management, -— : ; - ; = {9B, or fee. ane. ° away: ar Drivers of the two other trucks ‘afraid.’ i and put their finger on increase in| - 1 : | : 3 ° | whipped across into- the path of “ere Nurt, but not seriously. I say to you, when Dr. La- sales amounting. to $23 million. Double-Take Ye Many Outstanding | Mr Smith's 1951 Oldsmobile ———————tr———— Duron made these payments to This, the statement showed, was : _Jmunareas er In | Mr. s 108 : of Ralph Carter, his hands were cov- done on the sale of fewer pounds By BOB BARNES - Home Val i : : |, The Smith car, bound toward mother was, and what happened g.oq with as much filth and slime 1 then AEE : ues IN=— bio : |tndianapolis,. plowed .into °the and whose fault,” said Mrs. Lake. : : : : {of meat than the year before. ® . light. side of the slppi “We didn’t “tell her that ‘mer ** Ralph Carter's. It takes two| The signers, whom insiders To Save Li e or Bo vertible which flipped upside mother was dead.” to make blackmail,” label aa “Yon: men" for the real The Indianapolis Times g r : : Y . down atop the hood of the Olds. Mrs. Greenland lost cohscious- ‘Didn’t Call Police’ ilticze JHakiers, said “if Mr. ’ A , >] 3 . y ” . ’ > { » : ompany s Today and every day there |: _. By United Preps : take .place a’ week fr Parts of the car and personal ness when the ambulance reached] The prosecutor repeated e 5 gooa for’ the ¢ : are HUNDREDS of home val. | CLEVELAND, Feb. 2—The So. © ¢ P#c@ * "e oo on gay. effects were scattered 100 feet the hospital. {Potted Og. taal Seapite advanvel tare ant MUL is hE . wn. Es offered For Sale in Phe -[Clely Jor Criffleq Children, which ; °yeal WhO along the berm. from the accident) Hundreds of curious flocked on| knowledge that the bIACKIMAIIErS, gyrasty of the past wants to re. Xv Times . . . many of them are |Yesterday asked for skin donors the actual donors would be. j |of - which Sfate Trooper Dean foot to the scéne of the crash|whom he said -he “feared,” were a It _ Jas! advertised there JEXCLU- [0 help save the life of a badly] “Many people were very disap- Chaney said: which hapj ened just 500 feet|coming. the doetor made no at-| oo : | . SIVELY. These facts make | Purned 1l-year-old boy, today re: ..inie4 when they heard we had|. Both cars were going at -a from the Oaklandon School. |tempt to have police on hand. Recommended Corrections | The - Times Indiana's Larg. Ported 350 persons had offered w ap (DIED rate of speed.” For ov i He said when Ralph and Siebert| : |pateh f their ski : enough donors for Kenneth,” Mr. | or over a.year, said business- ph. an ebert| The independent proxy appeal est Real Estate Newspaper. Patches of Laeir skin, | re { Amidst the groans of the .if- man Milton Newho idents| Carter were “killed off,” there|q ; : 2 The society issued a: plea for Townsend" said, “and begged me| jured, six carloads of state police | or the 35 ge, residents remained no witnesses to “wh ¢| 221d Mr. Willkie had begun aj | j | four donors, each to sell 32 square to take heir names.” |and two squads of deputy sheriffs. have boxpen the State Theor) | really went op." © Yel |study of Ringay operations aud =H ; é NEWLYWEDS {inches of skin’ from his thigh, to A | { | » RB way| ' ad “reporte aults in structure > | -. - Thue sbedroom cotage. te roomy. - pels Kenneth Miller: back to” ‘ LOCAL TEMPERATURES |remoes: the imum debris and hg ve). Nuit 8) rams ror Sayre Sine: sud poly. He tecommended ing] i Til pageant GIol0 Suse Gopd - |Dealth. = 6a m.. 42 10a m.. 3g, Ambulances. Suey ighway. aia he Ca we alr al Coy ictiont Tu jmproper: purchasing] : i location "6000" north, Eacy ferns. I The lad” was burned Sritivaliy Tam. 42 11am. 38 - TWO uniformed nurses—appar- Mr eve Zo to Baye Jt ¢ Sad reliable witnesses said that the company around $10 million: a| ” ne FIEBER & REILLY. Realtors in a” paint remover re las 8a nn.. 40: 12 (noon) 41 ently from nea rby Sunnyside o ki pA i Wh m r 8 ¢ doctor told at the slaying scene year. Ee dl " like tell v vay SINCE 1896 . ugust, and the society. offered : |Sanatorium—aftrived. a- few min-+axiandon vic Association. pe pag 1 dr «...Andill don 3 REE---LIABLE SINCE 1 . 9 a. ni... 38 | : [ae ad been paying the blackmail He established an adequate : his face” . . RENTS—MORTGAGES~INSURANCE . $35 to- each skin donor accepted lutes after the crash. They Lnere are 245 pupils in OUr ever since the- mysterious disap-| research department and a Tton-| him - to help the boy. Latest Ramidity 0; [pitched right in—despite mud,and| School here and the school busses| n,arance of his wif Pi{fesearch Separim rol : s Y. 2eeens 98%, . ane n | 8 wife Freda in sumer acceptance laboratory Shown here is a sample ad | William B. Townsend, execu- rain and all—to aid the injured. |NaVve to turn onto the highway ;gq7 ot wi ? teal estate [tive = secretary of the society, 2 | A Sareical Fight at ‘the curve where this| pra aid | Which resulted in new and revo. rom today’s ‘real estate | ’ third nurse, still in surgical | He said that even defense char-|lutionary products and processes.

tragedy happened today.

pages and tomorrow's big hailed the response and sail he Times Index “What would it have. been if

SUNDAY Real Estate Sée- (hoped -the list of those willing to tion will have many hundreds |donate skin could -“bécome a val-

FE". of other homes . .. some are |uable source of supply for sur-

{gown, was sent from Sunnyside] {with blankets, pillows and mot-| phine, : © {bus Two of the IU hoys were laying, been hit in thig crash” he asked.

Amusements ... loaded ~.with children - had

Bridge Ce tsals inure vee Ten:

1

line of life today after an explosive crash which killed male jury went into deliberatwo hometown classmates and a Marion couple, yesterday tion at 9:27 this-morming and

Killed in the Oaklandon shortly after the jury went into

. LOOGOOTEE, Feb. 2—An| elderly Loogootee man, his) La "No -speed limit is posted for Wife and a third person were, They said in/. substance. that yy ‘Certain individuals c&111ng" pire Chief Leslie Stout wis dis

“killed yesterday in a head-on , | All the JU students were from|..ash of two cars on Ind, 45{ that Ralph and Siebert Carter nontly

Frank Morris, Loogootee, and his wife, Grace, died when "their

Fate Now in Three Large Buildings Jury's Hands |5 Business Section

By DONNA MIKELS : ; ht ent " Times State Serviee By ‘LLYOD B. WALTON ® mes Staff Writer ~~ .

MUNCIE, Feb. 2—An all. = CRAWFORDSVILLE, Feb. 2 Firemen froni nine dee | partments subdued a raging blaze in'the downtown business + section of Crawfordsville today after a-three-hour battle. Three large buildings were’ gutted. : / Damage was estimated at neare

|1y $1 million. The blaze was half a block from

we ' S 4 Kingan's Set |,» T Ki k oO b | Two of the gutted buildings were half block 1 ach, © ic i FE arin, nigh. The third builds

Fred Willkie ling was smaller.

rapped on its locked door at {11:05 a. m. in the manslaughter {trial of Muncie Dr. Jules F, LaDuron. Whether the jury had reached a verdict or whether it knocked for further instructions was not immediately known, Judge Joé Davis was “absent from the <courtroom. He left

| Hundreds of spectators watched {for -hours as 100 firemen fought .

tured the rly one-eyed doctor) egistered in their names he a a ea than one-half" of 1 per cent of Flames jumped higher than the 2 he slew two “blackmailers” who the stock. hin tj mots. The _chureh and Shoot 4 were extorting mohiey from Ba neal sal to the “00 ings; the printing arning ade A ‘Good Man’ i * ; joined them on the east.

less| Court House, ~~

oe

] i themselves an independent com-|...4 | Dr. LaDuron was a “good man,” mittee of stockholders have re- he the battle against the big solicited proxies on behalf

of Mr. Willkie, .

A Year Ago Today

and that thus! the doctor was within his legal] right when he shot them in his!

| were “bad men,”

“Mr. Willkie was elected presi- | office Nov./8, 1950.- * dent in November, 1850, but did| { But another picture was drawn|not take active charge of the

. 'by Prosecutor Bernell Mitchell, |Pusiness until February, 1851, The Mercu ) Hit {who in colorful prose painted the shortly after the.company’s first]

e gs doctor a% a man of . violence quarter. 9 Below Zero

thaunted /by threatened revelation | “Before Mr. Willkie took charge! THIS MAY not be the nicest of a dreadful secret from his past| in the final quarter of the Sinclair 4, in the year, but it's a relief » + aman who pald and paid management-the company sold iii

and who finally killed to assure 149 million pounds of meat with|from Feb. 2 of 1951.

|acter witneses had admitted hear-| Ing “rumors” | doctor.

“If Mr. Willkie's methods had concerning - the not improved Kingan methods, b : the company would have. lost, be‘If a man was free from fault. fore taxes, $2,506,569."

8 J 1 3: a - pletured to help you choose 8e0ns And hospitals. Te BOOS aiaesrses asian. /14 |BDOUL five feet behind the Olds.| All" Freshmen {and his life ‘was - such that hel : . I Ste Oftes you'll want fo per. PN a life-| Churches bei -4 One of them only groaned. The All of the IU men were fresh- knew’ he was innocent of any Board Medibars Quiet 1] . . Sonally inspect right away savers in as especially] Crossword ye 5 other «kept saying:, '- men vachtioning between semes- Wrongdoing, do: you think ~ he Kingan board members had [7% / «+ + «+ DON'T MISS THEM! I srge ENE ey y LOS * fies a ersvanise | “My leg hurts. Call my mother ters. Mr. Smith was a prominent Would have paid.” The deupty kept quiet through it all. But the| J was have Jour Sunday ire £ yp Editorials svivieviiiiiin, 8 2302 ter Get-in touch with my| Marion contractor, - : | prosecutor asked the jury. - [skirmish for stockholder votes pe Lot eonveniently delivered = : mac ony FOP. iii van tanine,s 8 {BIL coat (Parents. of the collegians are th members of the prosecu- had not been much of a secret avon Goomep ire thing || M. Townsend tod tt mont] TOR c ent EN ouuianaon mother, Mrs Mi ane ie males Ta he on akemeen re etomad oeok toa on sme OF 8 eet : the morning, Just phone tan dow the $35 fee it Aik me 5 {Robert “Lake, 25, ~arrived in a and Mrs. George M. Canterburry, | tenipting to justify the slaying by . Today's statement by Kingan| f your order any time. 'til mid- Tor or rating ple Aesreananana - few minutes and ‘helped -Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Phillips, Mr. the- fact that the brothers ‘had nianagement will probably be fol

Women's ie . freseiienie and Mrs. #Harold E. Campbell and

Mr. and Mrs, James Current.

night tonight. PLa%a 5551. pi 3 Greenland. * Saige a hi po - : | The operation on Kenneth will - ~~ “She kept asking“ tow ‘ner aE x lhe 3 A x v. “ 3 # > p 4 a a : : 4 ; ; . i : a = = eh ra ; 3 & : wd 5 i Ll sh I : t oie .t ay ; ; 4 =.

AOL AR

7

a

7s i

criminal records -and tations, Sua ve i.

“bad” repu-| lowed by another by the Wilkie ny _ backers, "at #0

. Me EL

oe I)