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b : By United Press WASHINGTON, Mar. 1-The ttorney of a 20-year-old soldier convicted for falling asleep while on guard in Korea today cited Abraham Lincoln's famous pardon of a Union soldier to prove he has a strong case for mercy. - Washington Attorney Myron Ehrlich ‘said the case of Pfc. Warren McConnell, Alloway, N. J., 1s similar to that of the youth who was pardoned: by Lincoln

for falling asleep at his post. Pfc. McConnell, a veteran of the bloody fighting at Heartbregk Ridge, claims he had been awake for 72 hours before falling asleep on guard duty, He was courtmartialled and sentenced to 10 years in prison and given a dishonorable discharge.

‘A Stronger Case’

Mr. Ehrlich said the Union soldier also had been without sleep for many hours before he fell asleep at his sentry post. In pardoning the soldier, Lincoln made him give his word of honor that he would be ‘a good: soldier. The youth later was mortally wounded in battle. “If anything, this is a stronger

Ridge. of the time he has been in the A Army and he's only 20.” ~~ Mr. Ehrlich was retained by the Alloway Civic Improvement Association to defend Pfc, McConnell after the soldier's Father, Dorsey McConnell, called the sentence too stiff -and charged his son had not been given a chance to tell his story to the court-martial.

Asks Full Report Sen. H. Alexander Smith asked the Army for a full report on the case, A spokesman sald the New Jersey Republican wants “to see that the boy gets a just trial. and a fair chance to appeal.”

The Army hag said that the

MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED Lawrence Smith 31, 1217 8 State; Fran.

ces Fox, 27. 326"; N. Eider Ave Lawrence “Black, 26, 1118 N. Capitol, Ave Anna Wilson, 19, 817 Indiana Ave Denis Shirley, 41. U8 Army; Mary Shirley. 28. Columbus. O, . Walter Stfipson, 32, 1402 8. Capito! Ave Cova Spear. 31, Putnamville, Perry Robinette. 24, R.- R. 6; Irma. Dun

lap, 18. 'R. R 6, Zan Perkins, 31, 2433 Kenwood: Vivian Sweatt, 21, 137 8. Sheridan Ave | Delmer Reeves .46. Greenfield; Josie Bhelby, 49. 626 N, Exeter Ave ' | Damon Monschein, 22. 4822 Wentworth; Elaine Van Splinter, 22. 4823 Wentworth Clifford Fookes. 37, 2833 E Vermont Maralene Carson, 26, 2905 Washington

+ Blvd: Robert Esmann., 23, U. 8B Navy Earmer, 21, Mooresville Clarence Libbert, 46. Indianapolis; Sears. 35. 2736 N. Meridian

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Schwartz, 20, Indianapolis. X Beverly, 1246 Belmont, Della John. son, 41, 21's 8. Beville DIVORCE SUITS FILED Bessie ve. Clarence Kinser Vera « Clarence Ten Eyck Cora vs Robert smay, Cloris vs, Mariner Manchester ‘aul vs; Leona Shepherd; Willlam vs Gertrude Guy: Robert vs. Edna Butler

Marian vs. Raymond Baxley. va Ronald Traner,

Rlary Hilda vs. Louis Fkihen Wahnetta vs." Ralph McConviil Ellza-| beth vs. Wililam King: Edith vs. Mure!

PRISCILLA'S POP

Lincoln's Famous Pardon Cited InCase of C

after being sentenced to death

cake,” Mr, Ehrlich said. “This boy, Sentence was upheld by the Army was wounded: I understand he Judge Advocate General Board of

got a purple heart at Heartbreak Review on Feb. 6. Mr. Smith's He has been fighting most office said, however, that Pfc. McConnell has 30 days to appeal to

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FIGHT SON'S IMPRISONMENT—Mr. and Mrs. Dorsey MeConnell and their daughter, Betty, of Alloway, N. J., hold pictures of their son, Warren, as they read messages from the Army saying Warren was sentenced to 10 years in prison fog falling asleep on guard duty in _Korea..

the U. 8. Court of Military Appeals. Mr. Ehrlich indicated he will make the appeal after getting all the facts in the case. He said he assumes Pfc. McConnell's story is true because he would have to be “damn sleepy” to fall asleep in the front lines only a short distance from the enemy.

INDIANAPOLIS TRAFFIC CASUALTIES (50. Days)

1951 1952 (olis Council of§ GUITARS $ 95 mm — iC--h ur ch 3 ACCIDENTS 1217 1130 A AR ht women and the ! X t to show them -SPANISH AND INJURED 18 517 Ministerial A s- “Ckaps-if you wast Ure HAWAIIAN : DEAD ; 9 9 Pfc. Warren McConnell sociation . will to me; but assure ¥£ . INDIANA MUSIC co 5 ~ present Dr. Von buying. ? . |Thadden at a 115 E. OHIO IM-4486 méeting that | EE morhing at 10 Von Thadden . Hollingswart! Martha vs. Robert Bow- At Methodist—Kdwaid Margie Heitzman o'clock in the First Baptist F WATCH REPAIRING man: Fdra 1® Verrion Basinger forma Willlam Lots hs grwin 5 Eddie d lithe Church. iene. Warden, Bett om Scott J es, Beverly teurwald, . Chiru Te pi RE ee Jeon Robert Rone May: Elected Presldent Immediate Service ssa 3 nard Jimmy, Barbara Pickering : Tr ; ® Main Springs fr : At St. t — w %: le Le y Ss ak 3 - BIR I HS Clareng ines Me When tov , can Ev ety ie guest speaker Is 3 mem p o Crystals , BOYS Whitworth: Alfred. Frances Hal: ber of the central committee of ® (Crowns © Stems At Francis «= Charles, Elsie Garner Thomas; Jorettda Staftord the World Council of Churches I Robert Annabelle Ployner Charles, ies 3 All Watches | Eleanor Grothe, Wilbur. Joyce Duba- DEATHS and chairman of the Board of Tested on Dee's ? Bal, Jee Mary are Margaret FP. Barrick, 77. at 41s Ritter, the Ecumenical Institute, Bossey, Time-0-Graph

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at 3837 Broadway ~" Then he took the ladder to a

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|explanation, he stabbed Mr. Hal-|

* lof 32 W. 30th St. reported he from Korea.

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‘walking in the 500 block. of W.

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Ladder, but Not to Success

A. Enzore. 27, of 6114

do jail today.

v United Press i i 5 4 “VAN NUYS, Cal, Mar~{—The fo . “ sister ‘of a young A igetiui itu with stabbihg »_ her _ father to death, told today - i how she fled with the sister's 2-year-old daughter to ‘escape being attacked by the Kknife-wield-

17-year-old

woman charged

led James Carvel Ave

lic sal e stole the ladder Police d h ing, woman.

Martha told police watched horrified as Mrs.

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fasionable section of N. College raine Moreno, 19; plunged a war Ave. “souvenir ‘dagger into their faHe carefully set it up. beneath ther. Frank Everett Lee, 44, in the bedroom window "of a 19- a tragie climax to an argument

year-old grr an onion - Miss Lee said she snatched Iit--tle Anita Moreno .into her arms as’ the stricken man staggered from the kitchen. She fled with the child ‘into a bedroom and locked the door: . She said her sister; who is éX* pecting her third..child, attacked the door with the knife and began whittling at the lock

aver ’ a » » ENZORE climbed up, cautiously rung by rung Someone =aw him and talled police " : When police arrived, Enzore leaped down the ladder -and ran. They gave chase and caught him. Enzore - comes. down another notch, today in Municipal Court 3 He'll answer “Peeping Tor" : : and pre-burglary charges ¥ leas a Neighbor's i Fi “I fled to a neighbor's “house through a beédréem” window.” she

said, and- then—told how she 1 ! ers ere stumbled over the body of her | ifather lying in a vacant lot still

clutching the blood-stained onion

ne he had wrested from Mrs, Mo- : ; 0 |e d fo. : he !. The tip of the dagger had

broken off in his body. Mrs. Moreno was charged with ; Mr. Lee's murder yesterday. The = 4 stabbing occurred Thursday night. . Slender, red-haired Mrs. Mo< reno told. her ‘xersion -of the J in a killing. : Harry Halton, 43, of 664 rch She. said Mr. Lee came to her St, was in fair condition today for’ an onion and, she told him. at Methodist Hospital from “stab it was the.last one in the Rouse wounds received in an attack he and ‘he could not have it. She said was unexpected and unpro- | 8aid she was peeling it for her own dinner. . voked. : cal Mr. Halton told police be was Should Kill You : walking on Washington 8t. near . “My father was angry ‘and. I Senate - Ave. Wheh a man ap-|/teld him.to wait until I finished \ a i i i t = proached him and drew a knife | CUUDE ine onion,” she told of

Without a word of warning or ficers. “He grabbed me by-the throat

A minor crime wave swept over Indianapolis last night and early today, bringing an assortment of siuggings, holdups and

ton in the chest and abdomen, and said ‘should kill you,” "she Three brass knuckle “experts” 81d. slugged two men in: separate at-; Sobbing. she told” police that

tacks near 19th and Yandes Sts. her father backed her against early today. They obtained al!the kitchen sink and she reached total of more than $100. in a drawer and found the dag-

Taxi driver Elmer Stewart, 27,/8¢r her brother had sent.‘home

Expectant Mother, 19, ¢ n Knife Slaying of Her Father |; Traffic Here

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. SATURDAY, MAR. 1, 1952

Charged 1 Dies, 3 Hurt:

One mar ig dead, three are in the hospital, and another has been airesied ae result of traffic accie here last might .and early

dents today. 3 Poli » blamed some of the accis dent: and icy. streets. Dead is Jess L. Terryman, 39, of the Wheeier Mission, 1045 N.-

on.snow

yelaware St beta fair . condition at‘ General Hospital is William Flowers, 64, of 1750 Boulevard Pl. In the*spme condition at St. Vincent's Hospi-

tal is William zody. 28, of 2826 i "Ji. 21st St. Also listed as fair is Mrs. > Helen C. Kloepfer, 40, of

ranklin, at. Methodist. ted en a reckless driving charge is Donald E. Packard, 18, of 1212 Villa Ave. Killed on Washington

Mr. Terryman . Was killed shortly after midnight when he walked in front of a car travel: ing east in the 900 block of E. "Washington St. The vehicle was driven by Richard McKeon, 25, 11516 Grant Ave. Mr. Terryman. was dead when police arrived. He was identified ‘from a blood doror card, which sted his former-home-as SpringIfield, Mo. "Tey highway U. 8S. 31 caused a two-car smashup in which five persons were. hurt this morning. As Rudolph C. Kloepfer, 45, of Franklin slowed his auto to make a right, turn onto Thompson Rd, the rear of his car was struck by another aperated by Willlam - Copenhaver, 33, of 3225 Brookside Pkwy. Mr. Copenhaver said” he was unable to stop on the slick pavement. . . Injured besides -Mrs. Kloepfer, were her. husband; their son, Richard, 9; Mr. Copenhaver; Lois Holsapple, 19, of 4830 S. Manker 8t.. and Phyllis Commes, 21, of 2202 E. Dudley Ave. : Mr. Flowers. was struck: on Capitol Ave. by a-car driven by Miss Betty Woods. 18, of 3024 N. Capitol Ave.. He was taken to the hospital with leg injuries. a Donald Packard picked the wrong car to hit when he had an accident at 46th St. and Park Ave. He crashed into a state police car driven by William Zody. ‘Mr. Zody’s vehicle careened into another operated by Patricia Breech, of 46634 Park Ave.

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. ACCUSED—Lorraine Moreno ‘is carried off to jail by/a policeman after she was charged with knifing her father to death.

piéked the men up downtown and, “I pushed him away and“Hit. at drove them to this area. When him with the knife. I think I hit] they arrived, the men slugged hi® right shoulderd’ she added. | him with the “knucks” and took! Mrs. Pete Hernandez, to whose) $35. ‘home Martha Lee had fled, told o ‘officers she went to the house]

land said the young mother we OF Turkey j ithieatened her with the knife. | And Dressing

+ Escape With $100 Willie Powell, 42, of 2123 Highi .She told me how she hated her]

father. “She said ‘I knew I would attacked him at 19th and Yandes| and took $68 from him. $l do it one of these days because

o {he had it coming’,” the woman Wayne Hayden, 33, Clermont, quoted Mrs. me.

attendant at the Sinclair service| i's

By HAROLD HARTLEY Always turkey with dressing, everywhere she goes. But she'd really like a chunk of roast beef. That's what Amer-ican-educated Ismet Sanli, native

station, 2601 W. 16th St. report-| ed a man entered his station and] asked for a radiator hose. When| Mr. Hayden turned to get it, the,

The hdldup man escaped with Woodstock Club.

Washington St. early today when|sady, 31, Ft. Wayne salesman, ness and the professions. They women and a man. |skidded out of control on U. 8S. 24 men. They drove New York and near here. State police said Mr. | West Sts, where the man toek|Cassaly's Cpl. Osborne's billfold containing

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yo [tee and the committee. on church

Noble, car-

Vermont, o' graduate lawyer and settlement

into the creek. : leveryplace, and the history of all

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of man. The country hag all cli-

‘Really Western

Dr. Reinhold Von Thadden of ey ermany will address a-laymen'’s inner at 6 p. m. Friday in the » entral YMCA. : The church laymen's commit

'she said; “it has shaken off what- | ever traces of the Orient which! {may run in its native blood. | “We aren't interested too much Rl in money as security. And for 3 | that we have to understand one "1 | another, know one another and J talk the. same language. 50 to! speak.” 8 ° She was a thirtyish brunet, with a touch of red; a creamy skin,

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and economié life of the: Church Federa- i

|the dinner. § t The Indianap-§

Switzerland. He was elected presijdent ‘of the German Student Christian Movement in 1928, is

: was a fearless and active h leader in the church resistance tg

mein REASONABLE PRICES son He canie to this country to give! one of the principal addresses at! the North American Lay Confer-| ence -on the Christian and the Work the past week in Buffalo, N. Yi: Dr. Von Thadden is making a speaking tour of many large- cities before return.

Peace of Mind & ; : ® Many of your neighbors have planned

~ own end comes . . , thus forestalling o “painful ordeal to those they leave bekind.

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For your convenience we have recently added a parking lot in the rear of our : | home. ; Xe

, GH-HERRMANN 1503 som EAST 81.

[sharp blagk eyes, and dressed in

She's Tired

man _ put a gun to his back and] of Izmir, Turkey, told the Execu- $ demanded his money. - itives Club here last night at the

nearly $100. "| She told them more: Cpl. Fred C. Osborne, 29, Camp] On the Highways “Women in Turkey are much Atterbury, told police he was more emancipated than in the

FT. WAYNE—Gene Leroy Cas-| United States, in politics, .in busi-|

he was offered a ride by two|was killed last night when his car Stand shoulder to shoulder with:

‘She said Turkey, the smallest swerving car ripped recipient of the Marshall Planiyogs, down 170 fet of guard rail, rolled funds, made the best use of them;|Groninger, $20 ‘and. forced him out of the/over three times and landed on an funny business about free|

reek bank. His body was thrown false teeth and wigs. z y Turkey she said is everyone|ROGd Steel Assured

time, stirred into one sturdy race.! Its history is virtually the history|

B k Di v mates, all industries, and the OO inner By BOB BARNES slickest little fighting machine in| : " . the world, with a.lot of American/ Bl (guns.

“It's really a Western nation,”

with ‘us the things they want when their |

{pital, but not before he had Mr, Packard.arredted on a charge of - reckless driving. Also Injured in this wreck but not hospitalized was Miss Nora Flannigan, 17, of 931 Massachusetts Avé., riding with Packard.

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black lace. ; . And as for the turkey with dressing she eats everywhere, she must expect it. For that is the title to her talk.

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Two Local Nurses On Honor List

Two Indianapolis nurses made the distinction list among freshmen at Methodist Hospital School of Nursing. They were Lois Ganert, 1020 S. Dennison St.. and Miss Dorothy Lusk, 2050 E. Mich-

~for the finest in food - service - atmosphere come to the grand new

igan St. Miss Mildred Dodgson of Terre Haute was the top honor freshman, recognized at capping exercises last night. Other distinguished . freshmen; were: Mary Perkins, Greentown: Mollie Price, Kokomo; Virginia Young, Santa Cruz, N. M.; Car-; olyn Shultheis, Delphi; Charlene Bloomington, and Joanne Burrows. : |

WASHINGTON, Mar. 1 (UP) —Top government officials were reported today to have worked out an arrangement assuring steel for the Ohio Turnpike and other stymied super - highway projects. Informed sources said detail of the arrangement are expected to be announced next week, {

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