Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 February 1952 — Page 1
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MRS. JOLIE GABOR . . . Still rim and glamorous at 50-plus.
The Gabor Gils, Yes, But Look at Mamma |
By United Press NEW YORK, Feb.
2 — Every-
body knows the three Gabor girls
are beauties, but you ought to
get” a look at mamma. And mamma's past 50. Mrs. Jolie Gabor, mother of
Zsa Zsa, Eva and Magda, has added an inch here and there!
but will stack up alongside Mar-| thinking before they're 25 other tanks, automatic weapons to
lene Dietrich and Joan Bennett, in anybody's glamorous yrandma ratings. "ge “It's my board that kéeps me
young,” ‘said red-haired Mrs.
Gabor, as she hauled a cot-like|good looks and glamour and how IU Learns Brooklyn Basket-
contraption from the closet. “This is the greatest thing ever made.” ; { She tilted the 6-foot long wooden slab at a 45-degree angle, |
hoisted herself aboard, and lay| were babies they'd grow up pretty ddie Ash's Sports Roundup .
thers with her feet in the air, h head down. “Now I glose the eyes and rest | like this for 10 minutes,” she said. | “It makes the blood flow to head!
|Our Gls are giving Korea a
{wrinkle in my face and neck. For la woman of 50 or so, not so bad, huh?” You have to §dmit it. “I'm younger than you are” Mrs. G, said to a fairly young re-| porter. “Inside I mean.’
“Most women get 50 in their]
ways. Always dreading. age . , .| it is so dangerous, this.” | * This dbservation was just one of several the Hungarian-born grandmother made regarding!
come she and her three famous daughters have both. “Charm you are born with or you-never have,” she said. “I made up my mind when my girls,
as I could make them. A mother]
£ : Summary of $§ Today's News
In The Times
Local Page Mayor orders city departments
to ‘pinch every penny’ ..... 3 Acquittal of LaDuron Wins | Cheers ~........ii saan 3 Two Hoosiers are finalists in | ~ science talent search ..... 6 |Kingan Stockholders Faced | with Dilimma
Is it ethical for prosecutor to sue the city—Our Fair -City 23
Today's the day WTTV in Bloomington boosts its power, for .details ...... 21, 29 Editorial , : The dangers of Secrecy ...... 22
{Senate slaps cheese back on shelf—Little too strong? ... Congress roundup Congress is going to need some stiffening of the backbone, it appears, if a UMT pro-
| gram is to be voted in an
tessa t isan Aw
election year The Russians are outproducing us in jet planes ..... css up
National Automatic jet pilot enables fliers to pinpoint shots ..... 9 Gen. Eisenhower’s friendly ties with 1a bor movement put under strain Brannan can't sit on scandals for much longer , , , Washington Calling ..... chasers 23
~ Foreign
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Sesanrs errr
new lingo-, . . by Ed Kennedy, Times Staff Writer... 500 Million Moslems snap ageold fetters of fatalism to
rise- up against colonialism |
+ + «+ World Report . 23
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| © NO NARCOTICS HAVEN—Edward Les: Smith, 20, hangs
Entered as Second-Class Mattef at, Postoffice Indianapolis, Indiana, Issued Dally
‘Special Times photo by Vivian Smith
| sentences him to two to five years for fraud.in obtaining dope in black market at North Vernon. ~
Russ Tell
It is reported that Egypt has UN M H been trying to buy Russian | ee ing | Br United Press fight British ..c....00n000. 23 PARIS, Feb, 2—A speciall
Sports Ohio State Scares Illinois Be"fore Losing (iiiiveiiaacs. 15 Dall 1RBBOM ..o.:cinsiacsss 15 Butler Leads Indiana Conferenfe ....ivitisiecnvena 15
Purdue's Loss is 6th Straight {
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in Big Ten
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State Fair 100-Mile Race Hits
can do a lot with nature, ] SHAE «.lecirsiisnnes wssse 16 Know.” : YOU Golden Gloves Champs To Be All three Gabor girls have! Crowned Friday ........: 13
classically beautiful faces and
and shoulders. See...not al perfect figures.
BY United Press “=A PHOENIX, Ariz., Feb. 2—Trunk murderess Winnie Ruth Judd] climbed down a hand-made ladder| and escaped from her room in the
Winnie Ruth Judd
Three Holdups Reported Here In 25 Minutes
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City Bowling Tournament Re-
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Women's
‘Stansfield Circle begins 40th year as good neighbor to Indianapolis .
| A° new column, Caprices by
Christy ......... ase Club and organization PEWS i ivyiiisirnesn .34and 385 Mrs. Fred Surface to. be honored for 700 volunteer NOUPS +uccetesiresrasnnnss 34
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{United Nations committee, ignor{ing a Soviet declaration that “World War III has already begun,” . today overwhelmingly rejected - Russia's demand for United Nations intervention in Korean truce talks. : { The Russian proposal was {smothered 52 to 5. A Western counter-plan calling for post{ponment of Korean debate until a truce has been signed—or it
{becomes necessary to extend the}
{war—was approved 51 to 5. Russia's Jacob Malik launched {the charge that War III is on. “Concrete evidence has been produced here abblit the AngloAmerican bloc’s tions for ‘a third world war,” he said. “This
g third. ‘world war has in fact
begun. The war is being waged in Korea against. China, in| (Malaya, Egypt, Tunisia and] Morocco.” : : : | (Korea and Malaya are cen[ters of Communist aggression. There have been strong hints that
Arizona state hospital for the in-| Rosenstein show scheduled at. . [and Morocco.) > Sane for the second time in two ~Wasson's, ........... cones 37 ih months, the Maricopa County/Brides and brides-to-be ...... sheriff's office reported tonight. Teen party notes sedsenseene . 1 It was the “Tiger Woman's" | about gardening ...eess.. # z fifth break from Ee barb-wire, Checkboard meal .....ev.. 46 Agree; Make Your, surrounded hospital since she was a - : committed after her eonviction of Other Features: Own Forecast = murdering two women friends and| Amusements ........ 44,45 | > shipping their dismembered bodies] BOOKS ...,.sisssssevssss 32- | PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. Feb. to Los Angeles in a trunk. ‘+ Crossword — svsssvsvrsvee 45 2 (UP) ~~ The Punxsutawney On her last escape she remained EAIOFIAIS - sccesvssnetnee 22 at liberty for more than 24-hours,| Forum "....... sessenenany 22 wandering the streets of Phoenix.| Fix-It-Yourself ....seee0 19 | She was recaptured 16 blocks Harold Hartley ..sseesse 47 [woolen undies handy. from the asylum when she was In HOUlywood ........... 45 The famous *Chuck’ eyed his reported “in the neighborhood” by| Our Fair City .......... 23 |g.40w at 6:52 a. m. (Indiana former friend. | Movies ...... seeseees 44,45 [400)is time) and then scurried First details of the latest'break, Radio, Television ...v 26,29 |p. t4 his den. His shadow sigreported “shortly after dusk to-| Real Estate ......... 47,49 | i004 cix more weeks of winter. night, were skimpy. Sheriff Cal Hobert Ruark ......o.e. 21 “Chuck's” prediction was conBoies called out his. reserves Scnools .... ISIELLL, sassy. J to search for the one-time blonde Sermon of Week anus 13 Society ..oeevers vou 08, 41
beauty . who hacked up her girl friends in a “fit of jealousy” in 1931. | She last broke from her secondstory room Nov, 30 when she slid
=——dowm a homemade rope fashioned) _
from bed ments. When picked up she protested that she was “sick” and said she hated to return to the institution “because they were going to separate me from my mother.” | Her mother, an aged senile patient, has been boarded in an ad-
linen and undergar-
Three holdups in. 25 minutes joining second-story room.
last night netted four gunmen about $217, police said.
Two men robbed the Waters crowded institution a month be- * Liquor Store, 1627 Northwestern foré her last escape, described Ave, of $50, Another gun-waving Mrs. Judd as “pretty foxy."
| * ° ® Fifth Victim ° lcinnati-to-New Orleans run. Of Crash Dies. members of the Pan Ameri-
holdup man took $67 from. Mrs. Shirley Tesky of Teskey's Radio Repalf” Shop, 2912 Clifton St. A fourth gunman robbed Donald A. Burch, owner of a pharmacy at 2302 Central Ave., of the cash register contents — approximately $100.
Get Your ‘Glovés’ Tickets Early
“Because everyone will want
to see the championship finals
of the Times-Legion Golden Gloves next Friday night, you'll , want to get your tickets early this week. Get them at these downtown sporting goods stores: BushCallahan, 136 E. Washington 8t.; Em-Roe, 209 W. Washington St.; Sportsman's Store, 126 N. Pennsylvania St.
“© $2; downstairs reserved, $1.50. ‘For Jim Heyrock’s story of the Finals action set for next « Friday night at the N. Pennsyl-' Tails, St: Armory, turn to page
Prices:-. - = Ringside and first row balcony,
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Crash Victim Dies
Dr. M. W. Conway, who took ain tonight and Sheriff A. E. ner made no impression upon ; Norwood ‘said four persons were «chyck.” He stood on his record | tity of narcotics.
over . as superintendent of the
The fifth. victim of" one of | Marion County's most violent traffic tragedies died last night at St. Vincent's Hospital. A sixth victim remained in critical condition’ at Methodist Hospital. Newest fatality of the Friday Oaklandon crash was Jerry Phil-| lips, 18, Anderson, driver of the| convertible carrying five Indiana | University freshmen which| crashed with the car of Mr. and Mrs, Otis D. Smith of Marion. Donald Current, 20, Anderson, wag still ‘critical last night. Mr. Smith became the fourth victim to die. He died late Friday night in Methodist Hospital. Three other victims all -were killed in the crash. r ?
HARTFORD CITY, Feb. 2 (UP)—Homer Earl Starbuck, 62, Montpelier, died | County Hospital today ‘of injuries suffered Jan. 26 when his
hs .. ‘car went out 2 Sonttal in a 0. | . ith of A TT
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KOREA, Feb, 3 (UP)—The first
{of the division wounded in bat-
in Blackford]
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Teens ..... sesesennesese 41 Earl Wison «acres 21 WOmen’'s ....:svees oe 33,41 |
What-Goes-On-Here—viiv4b
Crack L&N Train
Hits Derailed Cars .
CALERA, Ala., Feb. 2 (UP)— The crack Louisville-& Nashville Pan American crashed into a cluster of freight cars thaf derailed into its path in fog and
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hurt. i : : The diesel locomotive and three baggage cars of the 12-car|
|passenger train were: pL
as they piled into the. runaway freight cars a scant 10 minutes out of Birmingham on its CinMr. Norwood said ‘the injured |
can crew, ‘mone badly hurt, and
an elderly woman , passenger whose condition was believed serious.
Other passengers appeared to be excited but unshaken as .they| huddled at windows and peered at the wreck scene,
Wounded Hoosier Wins Silver Star in Korea
WITH 40TH DIVISION IN wounded GI and the first Hero of the 40th (California National Guard) Division here in Korea is a Hoosier, : . He_ is Sgt. Loren J. Knepp, Liberty, Ind.; who was the first man
tle. He also. was awarded the Silver Star for aiding. in leading his patrol from ambush. . Announcement of the casual “the first
ichairman | Groundhog . Chub, was satisfied. | Miss, both were. under the 'in“That's official,” he proclaimed
ficial word||
start groundhog in Sun Prairie, Wis. . , The Slumbering Lodge of
scientists and a ‘supersensitive
mote weeks of winter.
{a traffic violation, The two occu- : : But the Sun Prairie tyro saw pants, Eamil Gilbert Vaughn, 53, ohock Kills Painter
no shadow. Emden Schey, .co-| of the .Sun -Prairic!
triumphantly. “An early summer.” But the dissentor ang sup-
as the champion ‘Feb. 2 prognosticator. . = “if ” . THERE WAS fear among some of the faithful = Punxsutawney followers that a foul might be claimed. : | Dr. Frank Lorenzo, president of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club, held a decoy groundhog as he awaited ‘“Chuck’s” appear” ance. Moreover, he was seen in| earnest conversation with a re-| tired president of a. coal com-|
pany. &
This opened these possibilities: ONE—If Dr. Lorenzo was holding a female groundhog, then it
-'was an admission -that “Chuck”
was “strong” for the™‘weaker” sex. TWO—The retired coal president, naturally, wanted six more weeks of winter. More coal sales —more dividends. . | But the die-hard-members of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club set no store by. these fears.| “Chuck” hadn't failed them for! three generations. =, to] So it's back to the red flannel, | mink coats and footwarmers for another six weeks unless you
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whippersnapper.
Yes wag ihe ti ev that this California division, fed- INE
‘1, 1950, was in
"War Ill On, Began Narcotics Career With Prostitute at 16
Tomorrow, partly cloudy and little colder.
Vernon Doctor
Faces Charges After
head as Judge Fred Matthews | .cticed most of his life here is
|answered meekly...
want to believe that Wisconsin |-
VERNON, Feb. 2—A 20-year-old youth, who earlier admitted he became a drug addict when he went to live with a Louisville prostitute at the age of 16, was the fifth person sentenced under Indiana’s new, tough narcotics law here yesterday. Slim, languorous-looking Bdward Lee Smith; Charlestown, stood with head lowered and
as Judge Fred Matthews sentenced him to’ two-to-five years in the Indiana Reformatory. - He entered guilty plea and {did not tell the
Dr. William L. Det. Bennett , .
Grossman here ; to obtain drugs. helped Sak,
Bennett, who helped break the dope ring here.
Started ‘in Loulsville “Smith said he first got on the
{Communist influence lay behind stuff when at 18 when he went 36 recent disorders in Egypt, Tunisia|to live with a Louisville prostitute
who was an addict,” Mr. Bennett reported.
But he did tell the story eariier to State Police Detective Robert
had paid Dr. Grossman $15 for the “stuff.” \ ’
With this break, the investiga-~ tion was intensified. Two nights later, Mr, and Mrs, Sterling Thompson, Hamilton, 0., were arrested after running a red hight en route from the doctor's office. They finally admitted m regular trips—two to four a week-—for the last 18 month to get narcotics from Dr. Gross man. Some weeks they traveled more than 600 miles to visit the dope black market. | Addict for 20 Years | - “Thompson, now 41, said he had
- been an addict since he was 20. . | He admitted having spent 10 of {thy Jast 15 years in
prison, FBI recdrds show he han pleked up and fingerprinted 36 times; It was his 18th arrest on a par cotics 4 7 His wife, Alberta, 38, said she had been on dope only two years. As the officers prepared to take
photographed he said:
you guys tearing up my car.” He then opened a secret compartment in-.the car's heater and extracted a hypodermic. needle, an eye-dropper and prescription bottle. Lis nh
“He admitted he was released Tryck Strike
40 14 | 41 Groundhogs Can f 1ast August from the U. 8. Nar - |cotics Hospital at Lexington. Jams Since then he claims he has been | working as a card dealer in a!
Louisville gambling club, but he also confesses he hag three girls working on the side for him.”
Smith, the detective said,
|groundhog—the winner and still{claimed he made many trips from |champion — warned 150 million Louisville to get “medicine” from {Americans today to keep their Dr, Grossman in North Vernon.
He claimed he always was accompanied by four or five other men, none of whom ‘he would identity. Capture and sentencing of the other four “patients” of Dr. Grossman followed after the re-
|curred in by his Quarryville; Pa. Péated complaints of sinister |cousin but disputed by an up-|characters visiting the office, Mr.
Bennett said. Authorities put a close watch on the doctor's -office. Arrest on "traffic charges
lGroundhogs, ‘supported by four|led to breaking ihe case.
On Jan. 12, North Vernon
[shadow s§nooper;* reported rPolice--Officers -Bill-Gardner-and-vesumed—in Ohio, = \their animal also predicted . six Bud Everroad stopped a. car for
of Rensselaer, and Nathan Stewart Frazier, 43, of Greenville,
fluence of narcotics, They had
just come out of Dr. Grossman's:
ffice at 142 N. Walnut. St. here, In the car,
police found aja transformer. Police said he (hypodermic needle and a guan-/came in contact
Freight By United Press ! Freight jammed truck terminals {in scores of cities Saturday in an| |11-state strike by about 16,000! long-haul truck drivers, !
impact already was being felt at the consumer level in many cities and towns. . : States hit by the strike were Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Florida and Ohio. At Chicago, Federal Conciliator William Murray reported that settlements had been reached covering thousands of over-the-road drivers in all midwestern states except. Ohio. ; He said efforts at Chicago to settle the Ohio walkout had been called off, but probably would be
MISHAWAKA, Ind, Feb. 2 (UP) — William Strycker, 52, a painter for the Dodge Manufacturing Corp. here, was shocked fatally today when he touched a {high tension wire while painting
with a 29,000 {volt power line.
They said they
For the FIRST Time 2
THE REA
"OF EMPIRE ORDNANCE
War-time munitions mushroom -of ~ A New York promoter ; An Indiana politician A Chicago brewer with Capone gang connec-
tions ++. the war-baby that
that collected for munitions it never made... that paid -
lush profits and .fees to big
hasn’t paid its war-time taxes...
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grew from a shoestring des
-time politicians . . . that still |
_ The President of the United States has: suppressed | the official report of the government investigation. Send- |
tors have denounced ‘if.
Here is- the story—right from official records—of |
“how it started and how it grew. 1k Starts Tomorrow Exclusively in
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‘Thompson to Seymour to be|the and” fingerprinted, | doctor
“ : 8 Just a mimite. I don’t want
an’ empty to Paul ' Brigham,
{in the last few years.
In its second day, the walkout's!cials
prison authorities ssked the attorney general for a
was still only a misdemeanor and advised Judge Matthews to cor-
of the new amendment
handle any cases under the new Indiana , law—one expected to make popular and unhealt the’ union for dope addicts.
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Elderly Physician
5 Patients Are Jailed * |
By ANDY OLOFSON . Times Staff Writer :
NORTH VERNON, Feb. 2—Dr. William ‘L. Grossman, a distinguished-looking, 72-year-old physician, faces criminal charges after a black market in narcotics was smashed here, No one here is particularly surprised. They had heard rumors for years ha was i . ts peddling dope te known addicts. But the charge became official recently -as- the doctor was for malily booked and five of his “patients”—all addicts—sentenced to prison, the fifth.one yesterday. Dr; Grossman, outwardly one’ of the community's better citizens and churchmen, will not go’ to trial immediately. . The elderly doctor who has
in serious condition in a hospital at Seymour, recovering from injuries suffered in an automobile wreck a few days after his muiltistate dealings in dope were exsed. The tough new Indiana law on narcotics—at first believed only applicable to dope peddiers—has sent five of his patient-customers to prison for two-to-five year sentences. Multiple reports of sinister characters—some of them driving out-of-state cars, touched off the inquiry that smashed the dope black market. The doctor's tough » looking patients, arriving at all ‘hours day and night, were reported reeling and staggering as they left Dr. Grossman's downtown office, \. Trooper Called In : De ve Sgt. Robert Bennett of the Seymour State Police post was called in to help. He worked with local authorities to get the evidence ne to take legal xetion., - N . ? SS Thanks fo<careful observation and traffic laws, officers rounded up four of the five addicts now sent to prison, The fifth was up as a ; picked 3 A suspect. state police said the admitied his part, weakly ighing: x r “I'm glad it's all over. Those addicts have been hounding me to death.” :
Mr. Bennett said the doctor surrendered his federal nar<
cotics agent, after being able to account legally for only 15 per cent of. the abnormally large stocks of narcotics he had. bought
Ruling Challenged Judge Matthews’ ruling that the new, stiffer: Indiana law implies to purchasers as well as peddlers was challenged by offiof the Women’s Prison, 4 They, at first, refused to accept. one of the doctor's “patients” whom $idge Matthews had sentenced for two to five years, The
ruling, contending the senténce should be only six months, “At first, the attorney general's office held purchase of narcotics
rect the error in his commitment. The North Vernon jurist wrote a reply, pointing out the wording merely increased penalties and it made “NArcotics by fraud a felony along -with selling narcotics’ illegally. : A few days later, back came the terse note: “You're right, judge” Judge Matthew is the first to
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