Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 March 1952 — Page 1

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THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1952 nie

Pair in Fraud ‘Well, Here We Are, Folks— ase Shies at But—Oops—Where Are We?

.S. Court Here

Ask Arraignment Be Held in Evansville

Ry DAVID WATSON

An elderly Washington, Ind., couple charged with mail, fraud in their attempts to, to Manhat-|

identify “heirs” tan Island today refused to enter a plea to the charge in Federal Court here. The defendants, Mrs. Anna Ed-

wards Wiley, 69. and Frank E.| VanWinkle, 80, through their at-

torney said they wished to be arraigned in Evansville. Their request was granted. In an interview with The Times however, Mrs. Wiley said:

“We won't deny before any court that we took money to! fight for the estate.” But she also charged the case, “has been}

framed by postal inspectors.” Mrs. Wiley and Mr. VanWinkle were indicted last week by a Federal Grand Jury after a postal inspector established contact with them through the mail. Friends in Court In court today were friends of the couple and a few of the “heirs? of the lower tip of Manhattan including one from Nashville, Tenn. “T never took any money not freely given to me,” Mrs. Wiley said. - She denied reports that for sev-, eral years she may have been gét-! ting up to $10,000 a year from, persons who wanted to join her | as claimants for the Manhattan Island “estate.” Claude VanWinkle, 58, son of! the defendant today showed me what he said was an “ironclad; land grant to a daughter of! Thomas Edwards,” the original! owner of the estate. He also claimed to he an heir and said he has traced his gene-| alogy six. generations. He said | Mrs, Wiley also has traced her ancestory back many vears. On the basis of these searches, the two contend they are among the rightful heirs. Distantly Related The VanWinkles are distantly]

By ED KENNEDY

Bic planes flying into Indianapolis for the commercial airlines can miss Weir Cook Municipal Air-

port by a country mile and still get safely on the ground.

It came to light today that since 1942 every major airline flying in here except one has had such experience, for a total of 15 landings not on Weir Cook.

Here's what happened today. A big American Airlines DC6 with a crew of four and 15 passengers was lumbering in from Chicago. Over Brownsburg, the pilot, Marvin Althaus, formerly of Indianapolis, made contact with the Weir Cook tower.

“This is American 162 inbound from Chicago requesting landing Instructions, " the ship called. ~ . Ed » IN ROUTINE fashion, as is done at least 90 times a day, the tower messaged back the runway assignment, wind speed and direction. A few “Rogers”

! flipped back and forth and the ' big ship was put into normal

landing procedure. \ Pilot e¢Althaus cursed the dust kicked into the higher air by winds and squinted into the morning sun. Flying conditions were not ideal. Visibility was six miles, the ceiling 3000 feet. But there was no sweat, Coming out of a right turn, he even expressed a little local pride to his co-pilot, .Bural ‘Maki, Chicago. “Boy this town is booming, things look different. They've even built a new factory over

Color, skill

there at the end of the runway.” he said. “Full flaps, gear down and locked,” he ordered.

= » ~ CAPT. ALTHAUS had not landed here for eight months. “Full flaps, gear down and locked,” the co-driver answered. “Yes, the field looks different to me.” “What-—it looks different to you, too?” the pilot exclaimed. This was just as he crossed the fence. The field had reason to look different. For the big plane had ‘ust settled smoothly to earth on the main runway at Stout Field. The

pilot had missed Weir Cook by:

a country mile—actually a mile and a half,

“Most embarrassing,” the vet-

eran of hundreds of landings at Weir Cook as private pilot before joining the airlines, told his co-pilot.

» » ¥ WHAT HAPPENS Now?" asked the co-pilot who was taking hie last ride as second in command and tomorrow will become captain of hit own ship. “Well I suppose we'd better talk to the company,” te pilot replied. He did and was given clearance to transfer his passengers by car to the proper #irport and

Highlight

lce-O-Rama Drama

Photos, Page §

In star-spangled costumes of taffeta and tarlatan young: Rama you can get them at the

If you don't have your tickets for tonight's Times Ice.0-

related to Mrs. Wiley, but Frank Indianapolis takes ‘to the ice’ ¥F!r Grounds Coliseum box VanWinkle does not list himself tonight for the sixth annual office starting at 6:30 p. m.

Aas an heir. Claude VanWinkle! said he gained his heirship!

through his mother. His father|.

was serving as an assistant to! Mrs. Wiley. Claude Van Winkle said his maternal grandfather, the late William Edwards of Daviess! County, virtually had walked to]

and from New York 98 years ago/ages 4 to 16, attired in dazzling

edition of The Times Ice-O-Rama.

Sonja. Henie may have more tol ncern her than collapsed!

bleachers in Baltimore when her! upcoming competition gets under{way in the Fair Grounds Coliseum {promptly at 8 p. m.

Tickets were to be on sale at the Times offices, 214 W. Marylaad St, until 4:30 p. m. today. Thera will be at lea%t 1500 ' good reserved seats available

Nearly 500 youngsters, from| Box and parquet chairs, $1.20;

in an attempt to establish the new costumes will glide to the

family claim to the estate, but wag. unable to do so. He died a few months after completing the trip, Mr. Van - Winkle said. For hundreds of years, he continued, the claims to Manhattan Island have been passed on from generation to generation. “The heirs are taught from childhood they have such a claim,” he said. He estimated there were about 2500 claimants.

Today's News In The Times

Local

Page 300.000 fire =zweeps Armour warehouse here ........... Bloomfield publisher tosses hat in ring for governor.... 4 Butler University student

killed in ¢rash here...... on 0 National / Page Admiral backs. Morris on ship deal parley ............... 4 Hugh (Woo Woo) Herbert dies in Hollywood ..... sieaetive 20 Baruch admits gift to T ruman Senate race .... Peruse 2 Sports Page Tribe short players as pracHee OPPNS ova tnr eine 24 Sportswriters to. coach Olympplang ........, sierra A field now AE 25. vneeons 24 Dukes picked to win tonight... 2! s Women's Page

Hot Dogs today's {nod page feature hv Joan Schoemaker 1? Another free cook hook offer, 12 Annual St. Benna festival ... 13 Caprices hy Christy .....0000

Other Features: | Amusements ............ 18 Bridge ....ce000v00000. 35 ComiC8 seesnnsseseens 34, 35 CrosSwWOrd ...aeeeeessss 3D Fditorials ......v00.0..+ 22 In Hollywood ..:........ 16 Movies ........... sssess 16 Radio, Television. ....... 26 Robert Ruark .......... 21 Society ......c.000000... 12 Sports ..........v... 1, 25

Karl Wilson ....e:4:... 21 Women's ............ 13. 15 What Goes on "Here eres IR

Tonight Only . Sil 500 Local Skaters In Times Ice- O- Rama .

orchestra.

13'Korea.

'strains of a 15-piece professional | And in the audience] nearly 500 mothers will sit back with pride and admire the results| ‘of their handiwork. of stitching and tacking with ‘needle and thread will suddenly be repaid.

Benefit of Charity

for the benefit of charity.

Ann Scott —evervthing they've 80 got. The ensemble will include the

vast corps of youngsters, some talented In swirling figure eights and some whose talent i= con- corps de ballet. fined just to standing up on ice. promise. ax well as the red-ciad But they all have a key place in Dolly Sisters in “Sugar and the show and tonight will cap-! Spice.” ture the key to your heart.

Best Show Yet

The hours!

north and south side mezzanine, 85 cents; east end mezzanine, 80 cents. Every seat is reserved. Proceeds from the show go to charity.

There's No Business Like Show Business; TV Fantasies and Winter Wanders. A smash succes-! sion of acts follows the picturThe efforts of one of the na-|esque opening. of newsboys hawktion's most unusual community Ing papers at 42d and Broadway projects will be there for you to! enjov—and your pleasure is all beckons to Hoosrer hopefuls. “KFolies Bergere’ girls prove the Most of the performers are not delight of the can-can on ice, and stare in the theatrical sense of miniature mademoiselles are a the word—but everyone from perfect foil for Mlle. Fifi. Or, if teen-ager to tot puts into their! vou prefer another side of the every effort ax much as Barbara world, there are 80-—count 'em hula girls to swish in skirts ind skates,

the heart of the district that,

‘[nun Lake’ Number

“Swan Lake." performed hy the

In contrast to the cowboys and cowgirls who cavort on ice, there Indiana Ave. dance hall.

are sophisticated “First Nighters” In rehearsal every free hour jn top hats and tails.

for the past five weeks, they will|are matched by their junior coun-

bear a striking resemblance to|terparts, who are only slightly, New York's Center Theater stars! {taller than their top hate when spotlighted in surprise rou-| tines tonight. Dress rehearsalla galaxy of gay amateurs who! ‘observers acclaim this year’s show! present a show worthy of pro-! They don't even Ice-O-Rama of 1952 will include want mention of their surprise

as the best one yet,

three major sequences;

tessicnal notice,

finale, strictly “in the dark

raigned for preliminary jon a murder charge.

» at the Coliseum. Prices are:

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case he hound to the Grand

gives professional

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then with only himgzelf and copilot aboard take the big plane from Stout Field and get it where it belonged.. There another 20 passengers were waiting to go to New York.’ “] just pulled one,” he explained after getting to Weir Cook. “I was sure I was wrong when 1 crossed the fence, but it , was too late then.” Airport officials lauded pilot Althaus for his decision to land once he was committed. “He could have attempted to pull around, but giving it full

“throttle would involve the

chance of risk. - He was right to land once committed,” the official said. » ” " THE OFFICIAL also pointed out that although today’s incident caused both the pilot and the airline much embarrassment, there was at no time any danger. Although the runway at Stout is considerably shérter than the one at Weir Cook it has ample room for DC-6 type planes.

Pilot Althaus was rather,

glum ‘about what the company would have to say when he i back to Chicago. “I'll probably be flying freight over the Pacific on the airlift next week,” he said. "And as third pilot.”

Witness Was Threatened, Says Lawyer

Ry CARI. HENN

A ‘charge that deputy prosecutors and police officers threatened a witness in a slaying case was made in Municipal Court

today.

The accusation was made by

8. To Sue City I

Will Give Reds

10-Day Chance

| With Russ Guff

LX,

Hint Aiies

Getting Fed Up

Scvipos-Howard Stal Weiler

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WASHINGTON, Mar. 13-— ‘The United Nations command| in Korea—with the full support of Washington -— may

goon deliver this 10-day ultima-/

tum to the Communists at Pan-| mun jon

Either drop demands that Rus-! sia be included az a neutral, orl break off negotiations and re-| sume flighting. }

Top men who make the de-'

‘cisions here are convinced that] truce negotiations which began] at Kaesong on July 10, 1951, can’t] continue much longer.

l.ast fall, Gen. Matthew B,

Ridgway told individual members] of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who! vigited him in Tokyo he expected’

a truce soon.

He said that every day spent in| conference after Jan. 1, 1952,

of the Communists. He felt that) if we had no. agreement by New, [Year's Day, we should set a deadline beyond which we wouldn't inegotiate. At War With Russ Washington apparently has come around fo that point view. No deadline has heen fo ~yet. - But one will he set soon.

In the highest circles, the think- |

ing ‘= to tell the Reds something’ like this: “We will not accept Russia, because Russia i= at war with us, not only in Korea, Hut all over the world. “We will never consent to let Russian officers roam at will hack of our lines inspecting our equipment and counting our nosed. “You have 10 days in which to

will not meet with you. “If you drop your demands, we are confident we can reach agree-

ment on every other disputed! point. If you don’t, negotiatinns garages all over town,” said Marilyn. “Why deny it? You can get

will be broken off and hostilities resumed.” Little Disagreement

It ix stressed that resumption

John McNelig, attorney for ‘Miss of hostilities does not necessarily

|Georgia Gillespie, 37, of 1118 N. mean that we will fight asx we! Capitol Ave. when she was ar- have fought in the past —-primari. hearing ly on the ground.

The attorney said a state's wit-

ness, Miss Marie Hyatt. 39, of {1116 N. Ca apitol Ave. was threat. op; {ened with “prosecution .for per{jury unless she testified to certain facts in the case.” Deputy Prosecutor Harry Riddel promptly denied any were made.

“We merely checked Miss Hy-

“threats”

before the hearing to determine if she would stick to the both sides, These include the in- che lived in a Hollywood orphansame statement she made to police about a week ago,” said Deputy Riddel.

No final decision has been made. In its final version, our de-! cision may bé somewhat differ-| than the one outlined here! because a number of people are| to be consulted. But there ap-| parently j= little disagreement on the basic idea. Washington policy makers feel that other controversial points can be settled satisfactorily to

voluntary repatriation of war

prisoners who don't want to BO

home, as well as the rebuilding!

A few minutes later, Miss Hyatt of North Korean airfields. Red

did repudiate her own statement,

negotiators have been adamant

She admitted making a state- on both points,

ment to police but when he asked if the statement was true she

said: “It is not true”

When deputy prosecutors questioned her further, Attorney MeNelis withdrew his client's plea of not guilty and asked that the '®&arded here az insurmountable.

Jury.

UN Won't Give In

Just how we expect to reach; agreement is secret, But only the!

question of Russian participation on neutral inspecting teams is

The United Nations cannot-—and

oe

Judge Phillip Bayt obliged and Will not—give in on that.

fixed the defendant's hand at $15.000. pending further investigation.

If settlement is reached -and °

top men here are neither nverly

Miss Gillespie‘ie charged in the OP!imistic nor unduly pessimistic

fatal sheoting Mar. 4 of Mrs {Jacquelind Johnson, 27, of 524 N.''! |New Jersey St. during a fracas ion, in any area and with any

-our side will warn that vinlations will bring instant retalia-

that started with the spilling of Weapons we choose.

a bottle of milk on a table in an

TV to Bring Public

To Operation Table

PHILADELPHIA Mar. 13 - The first major surgical operation to be telecast to the public over an open network will originate at the University of Pennsylvania next Sundav, Sta tion WPTZ announced today,

We would warn that we would strike where it would hurt them and help us the most. We would make no threats we are not prepared to carry out without hesi-

tation 5

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

Sn. m.. 45 10 a. m... 50 Tam... 45 Jl a. m... 49 Ram... 9 12 (noon) 42 9am. 52

Latest Humidity ........ 80

Hoosier GI Gets 10 Years for Sleep at Front

Ry ANDY. OLOFSON

of President Abraham Lincoln in Korea since June "15" =ajd Mra,

A 23-yvear-nld former G1 from pardoning a young Civil War snl- Wingert.

Indianapolis today i= serving

a dier who alse had fallen asleep

10.vear sentence in Ft, Aon My on guard duty.

worth. Kas, for falling asleep while an guard duty after four returning from visiting their son keep his eves apen anv longer, sleepless days and nights in at Leavenworth, said he told They all must have heen JAead-.them-he had not had any for four days and nights in Korea when the court martial occurred last Nov. 14.

Parents of Cpl. Dale E. Win-

gert, 547 N. Traub Ave, plan to ask Sens, William E. Jenner and ‘Homer Capehart and Rep. Charles Brownson to ask court martial sentence be reviewed by a civilian board.

the render,” Cpl, ‘‘and the darn’ fool didn't wake me up. That's how it happened.

Mr... and Mrs. Morley Wingert,

whose case received nation-wide Heartbreak Ridge.”

attention two weeks ago when his

torney to fight his case,

Cpl. Wingert and Pfc. McConparents hired a Washington at- nell were court-martialed Dec. : at the headquarters of the Tth fide, three on the other.

Pfc. McConnell's attorney, My- Infantry Division.

ron G. Ehrlich, cited the action

“It seems certainly 1nn severe a penalty for a hoy whn was just an fagged out he couldn't

sleep tired.” The transcript of the courtoffense martial trial showed no direct evidence of the fatigue of the men

“Some Chink wanted to sur-of Co. B, 32d Infantry Rgt. on

Wingert explained, the night of Nov. 14. But one of the witnesses —an-

other of the men podted on am“The whole company was bush guard along a road on Cpl. Wingert is in the same-po- aqleep, We were all dead tired Hearthreak Ridge sition as Pfc. Warren McConnell, from day after day of action on tough the guard assignment was,

Cpl. James Wilson Jr. said:

“I.t. John T. Sadler posted six 10 of us on the road

“8gt. Trexler posted us and said "Pale had heen in action mn one man would have to he awake

implied how:

three on one

at all times, He zaid it would he hard but to trv it anyway"

By JIM LUCAS | |

Indianapolis ; Time

Low tonight 33, high tomorrow 40,

rad an Second-Class Matter at Portoffice

Indianapolis. Indiana. © Issued Daily

INSPIRATION—Sam Hanks,

calendar Marilyn adorns,

‘I'm Not Ashamed'—

Was Broke,

‘Who Posed

By United Press HOLLYWOOD, Mar. 13-—A

photograph of a beautiful nude blond on a 1952 calendar is hanging In garages and barbershops all over the nation today. Marilyn Monroe admitted today that the beauty iz she.

She posed, stretched out on decide whether you will drop your crumpled red velvet, for the ardemands. During that time, we tistic photo three years ago hes cause ‘I was broke and needed

the money.

“Oh, the calendar’'s hanging in

one any place.

“Besides, I'm not ashamed of

it. I've done nothing wrong.” The actress now gets a fat payicheck every week from an excited 20th Century Fox studio. She's

rated the most sensational sweat-

ler girl since. Lana Turner. , . She lives in an expensive hotel room. . , , She dines at Romanoff's.

Struggling in 1949

But in 1949 she was just another scared young blond, strug-

igling to find fame in the magic

city, and all alone: Ax- a <hild

age? She was pushed around mong 12 sets of foster parents before she turned an insecure 16. After an unsuccessful marriage,

she moved into Hollywood's famed Studio Club, home of hope-

ful actresses, “] was a week behind on my

rent,” she explained. “I had to

have the monev, A photographer, Tom Kelley, had asked me before to pose, but I'd never do it. This

time I called him and sald I : : : {lets when the calendar blossomed! previous approvals, thus halte out in January.

would "as non as possible, “tn get it over with, “Hiz wife was there Thev're hath very nice, We did two poses,

ane ztanding up with my head:

turned profile, and another lying on some red velvet." Marilyn speaks in a hreathless, | goft voice, and she's always very!

save ‘Everybody Knew Me’ “Tom didn’t think anvone would recognize me" she said. My hair was long then. But|

when the picture came out, every-'

hody knew me I'd never have' ‘What a Sweet Job—

Muncie Holdup Is as "Easy as—Yes, Pie

Re United Press

done it if I'd known things would happen in Hollywood so fast for me." Marilyn's bosses at plushy Fox Rtudio reached for -the ulcer tab

Man, 31, Hurt in Fall e From Truck, Dies Here

Cpl. Wilann said Cpl, ‘Wingert James A, Rowdere 11. nf 3208 nffered to “pull the first wateh' &. Oakland Ave. died todav in He 2aid he was not awakened nn- General Hospital nf head injuries

{1 2 a. m. when "LI. Sadie! kicked me on the feet and said itav awake the rest of the night.” 1t. Sadler was the principal prosecuting witness in the trial.|

He said he found all six men |9riven by James R. Hutton, 44, of|

zipped up in their sleeping hage: and sound asleep. Sgt. Trexler was not a witness He had been killed in action before. the case of the drousy Gls came to trial. The finding of the court martial was a ‘dishonorabid discharge

and a fentence of 10 years at tions to his New Hampshire sup=

hard labor. Maximum penalty, under military law, for sleeping nn L Euard dutwv I death.

guffered vesterdav when he was tossed out of a careening truck at Washington and Wallace Sts

Mr. Sowders landed on hiz head,

on the pavement after the truck,

1307 Ridge St: rammed another truck and then jumped the curb.

lke Says ‘Well Done’ CONCORD, N,. H., Mar. 13 (UP) Gen, Dwight DD. Eisenhower today cabled congratula-

porters for helping him score his

Republican presidential primary’

vietory Tuesda y,

FINAL HOME

PRICE FIVE CENTS

Indianapolis Motor Speedway weighed against us and in favor| driver, pauses while overhauling his racing engine to gaze at the

Says Star in Nude

£

MARILYN MONROE — } only

gave two away."

fan letters on the piccure and want copies, (women, well ,

“One gossip columnist serious ahout every word she autographed handed them out and said ‘art for I never said that.

“Why, 1 only gave two away,”

sald Marilyn, blinked those vanced in good faith as party te

big. blue eves.

new nse for Boston cream pie .. an instrument They shoved the face of W. Max Baker, retired furniture dealer and removed $200

from his pockets

while he wiped the mess from

James Vannatter, 22; Bill Netherly, 19, and James B. Wise, 18, : as (lie three youths she sold a Fd

Rosfon cream pie to,

Housing Fight

Advanced for

Junked Project

PHA Says Council Repudiated Contract

{ Ry DAN KIDNEY ! Times Staff Writer

| WASHINGTON, D.C., Mar. 13 Indianapolis will be sued for $257,000 by the federal government in the current fracas over public housing in the { Hoosier capital, This was announced today ‘by John Taylor Egan, Publis {Housing Administrator, who said [formal notice would be served |this afternoon on the Indiane apolis City Cotineil by” William | E. Bergeron, Chicago regional | representative of the PHA. Mr. Egan sald the federal gove ernment would demand the ree turn of the $257,000 advance for a proposed housing project since

{canceled by the Indianapolis city {eouncil,

: | + “In Good Faith’

“This amount represents ade | vances made by the federal gove | ernment in good faith in relancs ion a contract entered into with. [the city and which the city coufe cil” has now repudiated,” Mr, Egan said. He sald suits will he filed both {against the city and against the | Indianapolis Public Housing Aue | thority, | “The federal government,” Mr, |Egan asserted, “is not attempting ‘to dictate to Indianapolis whether {or net it shall have a public house. ing program. That is a matter for local decision,

‘Every Possible Step’ “The federal government does,.

i however, insist that if the city

repudiates the contract it executed to co-operate in the public housing program, the federal government is entitled to a full refund of the money it already had advanced in good faith, { “The PHA intends to take every possible step to protect the gove ernment’s interest under the cone tract entered ints willingly by both parties. | “The present action should put to rest any doubts, deliberately created or otherwise, that the federal government intends to otect. its interest in these mate ters. By at least four separate |actions the Indianapolis City {Council demonstrated the city {wanted this program.”

Actions Listed

Mr. Egan listed these actions as follows: ONE-—Approval of an applicae tion by the Housing Authority for preliminary loan from the PHA. TWO-—~Approval of a co-operae tion agreement hetween the city and local authority. { THREE — Approval of seven !sites selected by the authority. | FOUR--Approval of the issu iance of bonds by the authority to finance development of the ‘projects. | “The PHA advanced funds ta {the Indianapolis Housing Aue thority on the assumption these were responsible, not frivolous actions,” Mr. Egan said,

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‘PHA’s Only Recourse’

“On Mar. 3, 1952, the city coune cil passed an ordinance revoking

ing the program at a point where

¥ I'd 1 ids on the project already had . But I'd rather he hon- h

I've gotten a lot of «yt appears obvious to us that 1K® {hix means the program has been Fhe stopped and this action by the

been taken.

city council has created a dee

said I fault in our contract with the ame and thority. unless corrected by ao

tion of the council within 60 days. ‘If not resumed, PHA’s only ree course is to recover funds ade

valid contract.”

. Fair Grounds Coliseum . - 8 P. M.