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Battle Is On For Regional Cage Crown
Afternoon Winners To Tangle Tonight
By JIMMIE ANGELOPOLOUS BUTLER FIELDHOUSE, Mar. 8—A pair of little Davids were poised to slay a
couple of Goliaths of Indiana basketball here today. Speedway ‘and Greenfield, the little guys with the loaded sling shots, and Tech and Anderson, the big guys of hardwood stature, battle in this survival - of - the - fittest Indianapolis regional basketball elimination tourney this afternoon. Speedway and
Hoosier Couple Named hy U. S. In Swindle
Sought to Get Manhattan Island
By DAVID WATSON The fantastic tale of an alleged swindle which involves ownership of Manhat-|
tan Island unraveled here to-
day with the indictment of an elderly Indiana couple. ; The story of a mail fraud racket, which federal authorities estimate may have brought {ts operators $10,000 a year, has its { [roots in colonial history, British naval bombardments and edicts of the King of England. |- Indicted were Anna Edwards BY: “5 Wiley, 69, and Frank E. Vane > {Winkle, 79, both of Washington, HURT IN CRASH—Rev. Myron McKitrick is given first aid Ind.
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¢ Greenfield were] to tangl® in the 1 p. m. opener, and Tech and Anderson — the
after accident south of Indianapolis. (Story, Page 2). Sought “Heirs” - y t District Attorney Matthew! Welsh said the charged swindle was built around the couple's of-
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two largest survivors of last] week's 64 In-| diana sectional tournaments—are the gladiators set to battle at 2:15 p. m.
Angie
CLASHING of the four sec-| tional winners here today ‘had an additional epoch-making regional tourney atmosphere. | The only .shot missing was a potent shot in the arm in at-| tendance figures. Tourney of-| ficials held little hope for a ca-|
Officials |
Officials for the Indianapolis | regionals are: Joe Conover, Joe ‘Mullins, Roland Baker and E. | 8. Stuteville. |
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the daylight frays or tonight's championship game at 8:15 p. m.| A crowd of approximately 13,-| 000 is expected this afternoon, | but only about 11,500 tickets had been sold before some 3000 tickets were placed on sale here this! morning.
pacity house of 15,000 either Son |
ALL THREE games today are scheduled for television over WFBM-TV, whose officials appeared certain to lose a sizeable] chunk of their $5000 guarantee eventually to the IHSAA for television of four consecutive week-| ends of the sectionals, regionals, semifinals and sate finals in Indianapolis. A similar arrangement last
‘year found WFBM-TV losing out |
only $900 for the four weeks that included telecasting of all 15 Indi-| anapolis sectional games. Only the last three local sec- | tional tilts were televised this] year. | All except 200 tickets were sold for last year’s local regionals in which Franklin Township, Cris-| pus Attucks, Anderson and Brownsburg battied for regional supremacy. t 4 ” ” UPSET OF ONE of this year’s outstanding state championship choices — Crispus Attucks — may combine with today's video showing to prevent a full house. Sellouts throughout the other 63 regional sites included meets at Jeffersonville, Rushville, Kokomo, Muncie, Hammond, Vincennes, South Bend and Ft.| Wayne, but some 1400 ducats at| Lafayette and 800 at Martins-| ville were available in those two! regional clearing houses through! yesterday. Today's regional battling, nonetheless, lacks little in color, speculation and pre-game drama. This year’s quartet comes to the Indianapolis regional with] some degree of “surprise,” since none of the four was a heavy favorite to survive its respective sectional skirmishes.
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‘Outdoor’ Column
Sportsmen . .: Three of the top experts in fleld and stream sports will take you outdoors in a new twice-a-week column starting tomorrow in The Times. Al McClane, fishing editor of Field and Stream magazine, has teamed up with Warren Page, gun editor, and Joe Stetson, hunting dog expert, to bring you this Sunday and Wednesday. qutdoorémanis series. ’ on For the best in news ‘of the outdoors sports, see the first of a series of articles, “Out of Doors With Field and Stream,” tohorrow in the Sports Section of The Times. am
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Two men escaped a hail of bul- fugitives evaded them all. The 1058 of “their” property. lets and a police roadblock in a car was abandoned at Norwood The property includes Wall wild chase on the East and South and Virginia Aves* = Street, the Battery and its Sides early today. : It was then police discovered Wharves, and all the billions of Object of the chase was a the vehicle belonged to Howard dollars worth of improvements. | stolen car first spotted pulling Motsinger, of 1201 Fletcher Ave. from the rear of the John Ramp Police have picked up two sus-|1OW the pair established contact | Car Lot, 2302 E. Washington St. pects and charged them with pre-| With “heirs” to Manhattan, but| The vehicle sped past Police Car vehicle taking. Joseph Richard PParently it was by word of 18, going north en Beville Ave. Venable, 22, of 1031 English Ave, Mouth. Patrolmen Carl Gerdt and Stan- was held under $1000 bond. cil Phillips gunned after it. Charles Goins, 18, of 550 Fletcher
With red lights on and siren Ave. was held under $1500 bond. periodically in various parts of] wailing, car 18 followed the stolen
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FORECAST: Mostly cloudy tonight, Sunday. Little change ih tempera ture. Low tonight 30. High tomorrow 45.
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An East Side youth who got his draft notice yestere day, and a 20-year-old girl at
i tending business school here, 4 were found dead in his car this morning. Police said they were asphyxiated by carbon monoxide. The bodies were found in an East Side garage by the boy's mother, Dr. Robert Rohn, deputy coroe ner, said the deaths were accie dental. The dead: James Dale Freeman, 18, of 836 i N. Emerson Ave, Barbara Ann Henderson, 20, of Bedford, who has been rooming recently at 837 Tecumseh Pl. $ Both were in the back seat,
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er ————————————— = |the country with different opera-| vehicle, whose driver ignored stop tors. In some cases “Edwards| lights and stop streets. Heirs Associations” have bheen| | Radio for Help | A S enew formed. Trying to lose its shadow, the “Edwards” supposedly is the|
stolen car weaved up and down} original owner of the rae
4 y |from which Manhattan grew. ferson Ave. Then it shot back to) | Mr. "Welsh said the association Washington St. { |at one of its reunions adopted a Meanwhile, the patrolmen had] {resolution calling on postal in-|
radioed for all cars. By United Press |spectors to stop interfering with! Speeding west on Washington] TOKYO, Sunday, Mar. 9—Chi- efforts on behalf of the heirs. St. the patrolmen fired at the car,|nese Communist Premier and| Mr. Welsh said similar cases
| hitting it seven times. The run-| Foreign Minister Chou En-Lai to-|involving the island have been
aways showed no signs of slow-|day protested “wrathfully”|in and out of courts for years. ing, making a sharp turn at|against alleged germ warfare by Decisions by the courts declare Noble St. and heading north|Allied airmen in China and|there are no “Edwards” heirs, he again, . At Michigan St. they|/warned that any guilty pilots, if|said. smashed into a roadblock set up/captured, would be punished as| by car 23. “war criminals.” The runaway car spun around Chou thus gave the full back- . . ; but accelerated south on Noble. ing of the Chinese Red govern- ng igufcdern] Omer, 18: | The two patrol cars were tem- ment to the propaganda cam- ,, = "0 x > 5 Funbost vas porarily slowed. paign against bacteriological war- \ "P08 m ae t e Duh on Hit Truck (fare. The campaign has been roth ho Ni sanc. neeamal The stolen . vehicle careened Stepped up steadily during the ... "", np Suan a Pre ang wildly south on Noble, In the 400 Past two weeks, tn Soild eid block it crashed into a parked/ The charges have been denied Bt uninjured,
truck, owned by Robert Watkins, flatly by the Allied command. | 10 Fratituds they Erantaq the 439 S. Noble, Apt 1. But the auto Medical officers with wide experi- S440 & farm. which later bebandits were determined. Their|enCe a Korea say the Chinese tomy Down a8. the - Edwards : land North Koreans are the vie-| . pi a runing, so they) ims of their own incompetence in, Sout 100 yeals later the legis: | Car 23, which was used as a|/d€aling with epidemics. - | 9 ure On he King of Xagland roadblock, rejoined the chase. it! The campaign started with “HH * e Trinity OBUVch Cord.
was hit again on Noble St. as the Charges that United Nations fiers Which acquired legal title to the
{tives id. {dropped cholera and plague germs faghn 2s made hate Anal ML behind the North Korean lines! continued on. By now there weré It was expanded with accusations that planes alsa dropped germs over Manchuria. 3 . Artillery shells loaded with “germ-laden feathers" also have Poration.
Background Background of sll this, accord-
When New York became a part |
and future Buyers of the land!
Burglar Takes
N I : Dean fired by the Allies, the Promoters ‘Pop Up’ ommunists said, while planes : eariy $1000 In dropbed “Trtected teafiatc” Since then there has been a
continuous stream of promoters who “pop up” and offer to help {Edwards heirs to ‘establish | “rightful ownership.”
But the New York courts have
Athletic Goods =
There is one burglar in town Attempt to Wreck
who is completely outfitted for Fast Train Fails the football, basketball and base- : = ball seasons aftér a job last night. CHESTER, Pa., Mar. 8 (UP)— hei, that iv. 1315 the Trinity]
Guy Tape, 35, of 13181; N. Wilmington, Del, Chester and Church - came into full title
ice railroad police today investigated through “adverse possession,” Parker Ave, reported to police PRIS RY esis at. which means any potential owner
letic equipment was stolen from tempt” to derail the Pennsyl- had surrendered rights through
‘his locked automobile. The ath- via Railroad's “Constitution Ex- failure to use or pay taxes on the
letic goods salesman said the Press” en route from Washington Property. right front window had been bro- to- New Yor last night.. The federal indictment charged | ken with. a brick. A raiload spokesman said that the Washington pair with making | Among the items stolen were the train, an electric: locomotive false representations through the | $600 worth of assorted uniforms, hauling 14 cars, was traveling at malls. - $350 worth of basketball suits, about 70 miles an hour when it| It was charged: and $150 worth of basketballs, Struck an object on the tracks on! ONE — They told prospects haseballs and footballs. the Piltham St. bridge here. The they had prepared a bill for the a ——— train ‘did not leave the tracks, New York legislature which o A however, would establish claims for the Indiana Truck Strike The train crewmen, aware that heirs. : : : something ‘wad wrong,‘ stopped. TWO-—THéy set a deadline for Threat Is- Ended the ‘train at Eddystone, just out- payment of a required fee to The Indiana trucking industry. Side Chester; and found that a themselves, declaring that failure
of the United States, the land With the city controller and Board title was confirmed by the state, [of Safety for taxicab licenses.
took their titles from the cor-at City Hall, where the proposed
James was found sitting up in the seat and Barbara was slumped on . the floor. Relatives sald the young couple had been dating several nights a week for the past month. The car was parked In a garage James rented at 929 Bane croft Ave. Police sald) it was choking full of the deadly, odorless carbon monoxide fumes. The car's ignition was still on, but the motor had died. Police sald some gas was left in the 4 tank.
Union Plans New Firm To Oppose Red Cab
Another Cab Strike Story, Page 5| nied today it was going into the|
By EMERSON TORREY |.ap business. “We're busy enough) Assailing what it branded the with this strike,” sald C. R. Kin“paper monopoly” of Red Cab, naman, vice president. Inc., the Teamsters Union today} But he admitted the new venmoved to form a new taxi com-iture has the local's blessing. “It, pany to “take business away” will help these striking drivers from Red Cab, where the union eat,” Mr. Kinnaman said. called an organizing “walkout! And two directors and incorp-| two weeks ago. ‘orators of Hoosier Veterans Cab The new company, Hoosler are employed by the local -at-| Veterans Cab Inc. would hire torney John J. McBhane and busi-| striking Red Cab drivers, It is ness agent Willlam M. Herr. seeking a license to operate radio v © dispatch taxis, now operated in eterans Chosen -— Indianapolis solely by Red Sab The third, Judson F. Haggerty, : And, its directors said, it would |is associated with Lynnville G.| offer lower fares to cab riders. Miles, an attorney for Local 15a Holdup Men Get Their announcement descr “They were chosen because they § $ present fares as “much too high.” are World War II veterans,” Mr.! 667 in Two |Kinnaman said. * s Articles of incorporation were| Mr. Hagaerty fold Sle Times Forays In City . today he expecte y all to] { mg hg | TO licenses to the corporation. Bandits—one an agile, tough-|ing at the Tecumseh Pl. address
He declined to estimate h talking individual with soot for two months. rectors planned to flle petitions many. . ow smeared on his face—got $667 in| An honor student graduate of
Red -Cab, Inc., has 300 licenses two Indianapolis holdups last|Bedford High School in 1950, Bare but normally has 150 taxis on night. {bara had been attending Indiana the street, Mr. Haggerty said. The uncouth, athletic one Business College, 802 N. Meridian This he branded a ‘‘paper Vaulted a counter in a liquor store 8t., for the past year. That's monopoly.” at 2817 Clifton 8t. and scared a|where she met James, who worked ee ——————. woman clerk out of her wits, So0oiin Le Jyres Mock Ton 4 : and tw cotch, attende e business school par ber of cabs to 445, with 8 ji North Side Vandals ro Lirtha of Seo by the Wil p two or three of that number a Attack Autos ment with a blue steel pistol and a warning to “stay there or I'll} Barbara's straight “A's” in high
ready issued. Aerials were the chief target blow your —— ——— guts out,” gs hool gave her the highest scho-
A change in the taxi ordinance would be required before more of vandals who hit eight cars in Mrs. Ruth Cook, 35, the cloth, aN or ats She played in the band there.
licenses could he granted, City the 3500 block of N. Salen St, told police. Another stickup man got $167| | Barbara was a member of
Hall sources said. last night. reported at a Texas filling station at 4000 church of Christ at Bedford, the a broken spot light. inickel-plated revolver, She would have graduated from {Mich., was called home today by
Teamsters Local 188 (AFL) de-
Garage Doors Closed
"The garage doors ‘were closed: Police and firemen tried to res ’ " vive the young couple, but they had been dead several hours. HENDERSON— The boy's mother, Mrs. Cager L. Freeman, became worried when “(she noticed about 6 a. m. that James had not come home. She went to the garage to see if his car was there, and found the young couple inside. She broke down from shock. Barbara and her mother, Mrs, Agnes Henderson, had been stay-
BARBARA She was straight "A".
Seek Licenses
The plan may run into a snag
new firm will seek taxicab licenses.
City ordinances limit the num-
She Played in Band
| 8ix of these were Summary of . The attend-/National Honor Society, and was the business college next week,
|broken, along with two smashed E. Washington St |windshields, a slashed convertible ant, Art Quinn, .50, told police qegcribed as an excellent plano ’ | ; 0 dy S PWS 2 wo * o_ |and planned to take a avi serv. A ] (ice test to become a secretary a : L Ma rines Admit: Naval Ammunition Depot, I d | . A brother of James, serving in Local and se, | Ohio ‘Robbery-Killi ~ (N10 ‘Robbery-Killing IAI 1h 1 LOI Tf vars
top, a broken rear window and thé bandit menaced him with a player and singer. the Air Force at Selfridge Field, New FBI chief here has wide
the tragedy.
and the Teamsters Union (AFL) ended the threat of a state-wide truck strike by agreeing last
night on a three-year contract. It lcalls
for progressive wage increases starting at 19 cents an hour. It also provides a shorter work | week, an industry spokesman said today. Here in Indianapolis, a truck driver who had been working 44 hours at $1.60 an hour would get $2.13 and work 4 hours at the end of three years. The contract still has to be ratified by the union membership {and approved by the Wage Stabilization Board.
75-pound “‘double pie plate” had/to meet the .deadline would elimbeen hit. The railroad explained inate the “heir from a share in that the ‘“pie-plate” 1s a heavy the settlement. steel plate used to span the railf, THREE—They also contended bed and fasten the two rails to no one but themselves or their the ties. attorney could handle the The spokesman said that the ter. piece of steel, 24 inches long, had Mr, Welsh said some | been bent to remain balanced on fap three generations have een! top of the rails, paying into similar rackets with I hE ‘hope of inheriting part of the LOCAL TEMPERATURES Island. ¢
6a m.. 30 10 a. m... 36 The indictment cites the Wash- | 7a m..30 11 a m.. 39 ington pair for the ‘violations 8 a. m.. 3] 12 (Noon) 41 “hefore September, 1950 until 9a.m.. 3 1 p. m.. 42 February, 1951.” ire They sent: one of their letters Latest humidity ........ 35 to a postal inspector.
Fliers Offer
The Civil Air Patrol today offered 268 planes to help settle the Notre Dame-Red Cross feud. But it still appeared most of 2500 pints of “Irish” blood— pledged by Notre Dame students in a one-week campaign—would
g0 begging. The Red Cross’ St. . Joseph County chapter says it. just «doesn’t. have the ‘equipment or
storage space to take more than 300 pints a month from the Uni~ versity. Their Irish blood boiling, a group of Notre Dame students has protested to Washington.
<The Civil Air Patrol today vol-
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Help in Blood Feud
equipment to take the students’ tor of the Indianapolis chapfer blood and shuttle it “tn Indian- “Our equipment and personnel apolis or anywhere in the United are booked for the next two States” to be processed and months. stored. : “If we went up there, we'd have Col. Wayne’ Ricks, new com-, to cancel operations down here mander of the CAP’s Indiana We have only two doctors and 16 Wing, offered all 268 planes as- nurses, already kept busy fullsigned to the 37 squadrons in the time down here. “But we want the blood if we The 268 ‘planes represent a can get it.” hypothetical figure. however. Col. = Mr. Sheppayd said he will con: Ricks pointed out one DC-4 cod tact Red Cross authorities in carry all 2500 pints pledged by Washington to see if a. solution the students, as well as the equip- can. be found. : ment and personnel to handle it. - He recalled Indiana University But the Red Cross here sadly students became aroused last No-|
reported it would have to pass vember when the Red Cross was
‘the Civil Air Patrol's offer, Our problem is ‘this Virgil Sheppard, executive direc-/ Korea.
unable to take all.of 1600 pints
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said of blood they had pledged for
experience , , . Hoosier Pro- Two AWOL Marines, one from nm or) rnp oi; HE evi iene ini ves 3 Mooresville, Ind., were held today : - Train-car crash kills Hoosier on first degree murder charges : Ex Con Gets Term man and his mother...... 2 [for the shooting of a driver who : re In Bond Forgery Foreign Indiana and Ohio state police CHICAGO, Mar.. 8 (UP)—
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United Nations accuses Reds
last night arrested Pvt, Harmon Keith Cordray, 18, of R. R. 2, |Mooresville, in the fatal shoot-
of having ‘secret’ POW 3 Ing of Allen Drake, 43, of CoCAINDS: +2veverevsnsiss vivars Jumbus, O. Mr. Drake was found . dying early Tuesday on U. 8. 40 National near Kirkersville, O. Page Pvt. Louis Allen Angel, 18, of
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Huntington, W, Va., was arrested 2 by Huntington police last night. | Signs Confession 3) “1 did it,” Cordray was quoted las telling officers who arrested {him while‘ he was en route from
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the evening with girl friends. He 8 waived extradition and is lodged in jail in Columbus, O.
8! Authorities said Cordray signed
{a 10-page confession, admitting 8 being with Angel, a former {sword swallower in carnivals, on ithe night of the slaying.
8 ‘They Shot Me’
Dying, Allen Drake, raised (himself to his hands and gasped to two unidentified truck drivers: | “They robbed me and shot me 3 and took my car.” Ohio authorities identified Mr. Drake. as a gambling numbers writer. They =aid $170 was found 3 in his pockets, but added he may “ have-heen carrying more when he picked up the hitchhikers." Police said Cordray told them robbery was the motive, | Prosecutor Forest Ashcraft of | Licking County, Ohio, said the
_ | youths got Mr. Drake to #op thelr, they said.
|car, ‘slugged him with .a blackjack, then shot him. 4
| “Angel shot down into Mr,
" {Drake as he was attempting to
i Steven J. Caesar, 43, Whiting, { Ind, was sentenced to 10 years ‘4 in prison on a forgery charge and + a federal judge ordered a directed 7 { verdict of acquital for. a co-des 4 fendant against whom Caesar had testified after pleading guilty. Federal District Judge J. Sam Perry ordered the verdicts yese terday after Caesar had testie fied that his co-defendant, Ate torney Oscar W, Harman, had boasted that he could “fix” the case because the presiding judge could be “reached.” Caesar and Mr. Harman were ° indicted on a charge that they forged the signatures on $4500 in ‘government bonds which - they wanted to cash. Caesar pleaded guilty and offered to testify for
HARMON CORDRAY—
Hoosier Marine held for murder.
crawl away on his knees,” Mr Ashcraft said. When Mr. Drake got up and started to flee down the .road,
Mr. Ashcraft said,” the youths the government, pursued him in his auto, firing . once as they passed him. oncéssion fo Explore
+ Ohio State Highway Patrol of-| ficers. found the Drake car near! MUSCAT, Oman, Mar. 8 (UP) |Buck Eye Lake, south of U. 8. 40, —Wendell Phillips, American’ where he was killed. archeologist recently driven out | Cordray and Angel were traced of Yemen by hostile tribesmen, by a telephone call for Wa taxi received a three-year concession they made near the place where today for explorations in ancient Mr. Drake was found dead. Oman, on’ the eastern corner of
Officers said the pair, answer. Arabia. ing descriptions Mr. Drake. gave,
| registered at a Newark, O., hotel. Canadian Jets Crash ‘Cordray gave his real name. : .
| Angel used an .alias, William Al-| KING, Ont, Mar. 8 (UP)—Two "Royal Canadian. Air Force Vam‘Authorities said the two had pire jet fighter planes crashed been AWOL from a Naval Hos- near this village 30 miles north pital in Huntington, W. Va, of Toronto and both pilots were since Feb. 28. in killegh glist I