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[scmres “wowarpl 63d YEAR—NUMBER 4
Is South Bend Lad
1944 Kidnap
By DONNA MIKELS SOUTH BEND, Mar.. 15-— Solomon had it easy. When the Biblical judge was faced with two mothers
claiming the same baby, he found the true parent by decree- | ing the child should be sliced in two. And for this his name became synonomous with. wisdom. But a case currently pending before South Bend Judge John Gonas far outdistances the com- § plexities of the Biblical case. This is the disputed custody of 9-year-old Charlie Joe Tipp, a case so fantastic that it might have sprung from a fiction writer's . pen, rather than from fact and life.
Is the shy, mannerly boy really Charlie Tipp, son of a South Bend factory worker? Or is he ins fact long-missing Ronnie Thompson, kidnaped by a nursemaid from his Dayton home when he was a 20-month-old toddler?
Judge Must Probe.
The answer lies in two almostforgotten kidnapings, a brutal murder and in the twilight recesses of a mentally deranged mind. It is into these that the judge must probe to decide if the custody of Charlie Joe should remain with Robert Tipp, who for eight years has believed the boy to be his son or go to the Arthur C. Thompson family of Dayton, who have searched for their kidnaped boy those same. eight years. To understand the background of the Tipp-Thompson custody case one must go back to Detroit on June 3, 1943. On that day a nursemaid who had worked for the Paul Jevaharian family just a week disappeared with 11-month-old Paul Jevaharian Jr. A kidnaping alarm was out in a matter of hours after she disappeared. But the woman who had given the false name “Alice White” dropped out of sight and with her went the baby boy.
Another Child
This case was almost forgotten on Oct. 7, 1944, when a nursemaid went to work at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Thompson. The next day the maid took 20-month-old Ronnie Thompson out. for a haircut. But a few hours later when the nurse “Mary Wilkey” had not returned, once more an alarmed family called police and once more a kidnap alarm went out too late. ~~ From that day no trace was "ever found again of the woman. . But police matched up description “of the auburn-haired, apparently well-educated woman with a slight southern accent. Her description—and her method of operation—matched to tiny details. Dayton-Detroit police were :anvinced the same woman stole both<babies—but they never could locate any lead to the woman. Now once more thé scene of this tangled tale switches, this time to Tampa, Fla., in September, 1950. A red-haired woman| He said she first disappeared named Mrs.*Lois Tipp reluctant- and returned sometime in 1943, ly confirmed a story that had announcing she had borne pre-
family circle.
“ KIDNAPED BOY-—Here's how Ronnie Thompson age nine months.
looked at
'FATHER?'—Robert Tipp... He also thinks Charlie is "my boy."
reached ears of law officers. She mature twins, a boy and a girl, |
sald her 8-year-old boy, Bobby, and that they were still in the was missing and so was $2000 she| hospital. Some months later she had hidden in a room at the returned with the boy, Bobby, rear of the tavern she operated.'anq said the little girl had died. Boy Found Dead | About a year later, said Mr. But police investigating her Tipp, she left again, once more story found a host of “holes.” An told him he was a father and at attempt had been made on the a later date brought home a “hoy’s life months before when he baby boy he has known as vas put to bed on a bare mat- Charlie Joe. tress in a burning building from! In néither case could the ‘fawhich Mrs. Tipp had removed all ther” establish "exact ages of the furnishings. Only a passerby boys when he first saw them. saved his life, © 7 Later checks of Mississippi hosThus a few days later when a pitals failed to verify any portion neighbor found the boy's body, of Mrs. Tipp's explanations to shot through the head and her husband. And her family in wrapped in bloodstained sheets, Mississippi denied she had made stuffed into a refrigerator. the any trips home. ; mother was arrested and indicted These facts uncovered in the on a murder charge. past year led both the Detroit Lois Tipp never came to trial.ianq Payton families to hope that A psychiatrist appointed by the a4 jact their search had ended, court pronounced her a. schizo- nf.q Thompson and her mothphrenic - paranoid ahd said she .,. nro Joseph Waker, journeyed had been “insane all her adult {, iorida to see if they could life.” She was committed to the ;j. ¢iry Mrs. Tipp as the nurse hospital for the criminally insane ip. .o how as Mary Wilkey.” at Chattahoochie, Fla. : TRose Vivid Eyes
The case might - have ended there. But a Detroit. detective Her hair was gray but the who was vacationing in Florida minute I saw those vivid blue
read of the case and an obscure eyes looking at me I knew her”
portion of a doctor's report said the mother. “She had the caught his attention. (same southern accent. And when Two Sons? she used the expressions “don’t
A doctor said there was ‘no evidence that Mrs. Tipp had ever given birth to a child.” And yet she had two sons, the slain son Bobby and another boy,. Charlie, Joe, then 7, who had been given over to the custody of Mrs. Tipp's estranged husband back in South
stand’ my blood ran cold—it was the same expressions I remembered that woman ‘who.took Ronnie used.” Other points of Mrs. Thompson’s description of her kidnaped son’s abductor tallied with known facts on Lois Tipp. She said the
Bend. woman was well-educated. A If Mrs. Tipp had indeed never pock into Lois Tipps backborne a child, where did she get ground disclosed she was the
her two sons? That's the question that popped into the mind of Detroit police,| still mindful of , the unsolved Jevaharian kidnaping. And automatically, Dayton police reopened the linked Ronnie Thompson kidnaping. In the year that has followed the FBI, private detectives and police have investigated. They, turned up the fact that birth certificates for hoth Tipp boys were forged. Another amazing fact was that Mr. Tipp admitted, his wife twice returmed home to present .him with sons ‘after leaving without notice to “visit her home in Mississippi.’ In - neither case, he said, did he sus“pect his wife was pregnant.
daughter of a wealthy Mississippi family and that she attended an excluive Virginia boarding school
“odd doings’ alienated her family. But the real “clincher” came a month ago when Mr. and Mrs. Thompson went to see for themselves the boy now living in South Bend as Charlie Joe Tipp. It's Our: Boy’ “The minute IT saw him I knew it was our boy,” said Mts. Thompgon. “He looks just like our voungest boy Bobby. And. his left ear is the same as Ronnie's—a dented cartilege like his father has.” : : The Jevaharians too,
|a picture of the slain boy, Bobby.
Victim?
’ | lyou know' and ‘don’t you under-
in her youth. In later years her!
thought their search might-be over, Shown|Cruz B. Fragosa, 23, East Chi-
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CENTER OF DISPUTE—Char. lie Joo Tipp... ls his name really Ronnie Thompson?
‘SUNDAY, MARCH 16, 1952
Tech Drubs
Shelbyville In Final Here
Jeff, New Albany Muncie Advance
alone today.
are now
next Saturday when the
crowned at. Butler Fieldhouse.
60-33, semifinal
there.
Crawley another staunch con
37, at West Lafayette. Wins Close One
New Albany, tabbed by many {as the future champ, was pressed | by Evansville Central before win-!
ning 52-50 at Bloomington. auled Greencastle,
eliminating Batesville, 46 to 34.
ers, 39 to 37.
to 54 in four hectic overtimes. Joe Sexson, Tech's workhorse
demoralized the Golden Bears
for Tech.
at the intermission, Muncie Central earlier loss to Kokomo.
van’s 168 points.
born Bears,
going away.
Today's News In The Times
. Local Page ARTIST'S CONCEPTION — [Group indorses two for juveHere's how an artist thinks Ron lr ile judge frsaneueveres 22:2) . . ree § We Thompson might look now, southeast side ..........c00 3
| Do details — especially the pe- | culiar ear formation — match |
| Patrick, 4, learned the Irish
. oT Tradition «..eceveeecnenees | Charlie Tipp? | rratinen costs whittling s | down office seekers in {members of the Jevaharian fam-! county .......ie.... cierin 15 {ily collapsed. Even strangers saw . la reseroniocrs to the last photo- National {graphs of the missing Paul] Page !Jevaharian Jr. President - Truman recalls
| Thus after a long. painstaking year of gathering details, the
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editing his high school
Thompsons this month filed suit pian step-up this summer in
in South Bend court to take custody of Charlie Jo Tipp, the boy they believe to he their own.
Said the bewildered “father,” Robert Tipp: “I'll be guided by the truth,
whatever it is, But I believe the boy is mine.”
Said Mrs. Thompson:
Readying Room
“I just know he's our Ronnie and I know God has led us this
far and will bring him back. I'm |The U. 8.
painting his room, getting it all ready for him.”
Silent was Judge Gonas, who, K Will
has assigned court workers to make a thorough investigation, to work with Dayton and Detroit police and to tangled skeing of the JevaharianThompson kidnapings and the mysterious activities of a woman now labeled “insane.”
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fry to untwist the jorsefeathers .
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No one knows what tha deci{sion of the modern ‘Solomon will be. 4 But unless something unlocks
the sealed lips of Lois Tipp, the woman who knows the answers this Hoosier judge must rule on a case that might have been beyond even the wisdom Solomon.
irs
MURDER
* On the Highways MISHAWAKA — A minister's family of three was killed late yesterday when ‘ their auto was struck by a Grand Trunk and Western passenger train at a county road crossing three miles ‘northeast. of Mishawaka. Killed were the Rev, Waldamar Wilson,
11, his wife, Rosie, 48, and a daughter,” Roberta, 18, gall of Mishawaka, . :
EAST CHICAGO-—-A Korean ‘War veteran on rotation was killed yesterday in a’ car struck hy an Indiana Harbor Belt freight train. He was Pfe,
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PAPET ...iieresantinenanes " draft calls ......vees000.s 4 Foreign : Page Korea saps Russian war
might, says Gen. Van Fleet in denying stalemate means defeat for United Nations . .. World Report
Editorials
Page must bid against Russia for an alliance with GerMANY ses vrissesssnssnss Schricker leave politics or help clean up the party . atate politics by Irving Leibowitz ....civvvee sd. 22
graph editorial : Women's
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w Spring fashions to be found
in Indianapolis stores —a complete section with stories
by Betty Locher, Times Fashion Editor, and pictures by Times: photographers. ............0.. 33-48
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Children's Bureau workshep .. Barbara Walker, today's Teen of the Week ......:.:.0040 26 The ‘‘cotton rug’ story 23 Memorial martin house 30
Other Features:
Amusements .......%.24,25 Eddie Ash ..... Fe 18 BOOKS. «.issasss0vsese . 31 Bowling seveesesscnssens 20 Butler ....ss0444 Seuanene 24 Crossword. «..c.scesveses 32 Fix-It-Yourself .......ss: 14 Forum ....ic000icsnanes 22 Gardening ..:civiveeeesas 30 Harold Hartley ......... 49 Movies ....... cca ves 24.23 Our Fair City ...... wei i Radio. Television ........ 13 Real Estate ...... eee 49:51 Robert Ruark .a.eeea.i 21 " Records ....... vevrevnns 12 Sermon of Week ........ 16 Society ...... «s 26-30, 33-48
Ed Bovola, suvavirsvane. 21 Sports ceiisnsensennnn 17-20 Earl Wilsen tesesssenses &
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These hard-hitting cagers sur vived last night's semifinals and; eyeing the BIG ONE 1952! Indiana State Champion will be| |
Tech's Green Wave swept past! an outmanned Shelbyville five,! to win the Indianapolis and continue as the team that wasn't supposed to be
Muncie Central's defending t Ichamps surprised Kokomo’'s Wildcats with a 62-60 win at Muncie. Lafayette Jeff gave Marion
tender when it disposed of Lo-
IS SEARCH ENDED?—Mr. and Mrs, Aviivir Thompson and jS3NSPOLUS surprising Berdies, sons, Bobby and Jimmy, wait to welcome "Ronny" back to the
In the afternoon session, Tech 66 to 52.1 helbyville moved to the finals by
Logansport's Berries upset Hammond, 45 to 43 in the matinee at Purdue while Lafayette had a scare before dropping Elk- [fa hart's highly regarded Blue Blaz- :
Down at Bloomington, New Al-|¢" bany knocked off Vincennes, 56 | & to 49, and Evansville Central de- Se feated Terre Haute Garfield, 56
(dropped in 27 points on nine field goals and nine free throws. Sexson's floor generalship quickly
Al Northington scored 13 points
The Green Wave led 25 to 13
avenged an » m : Muncie ; i ’ y opened a 30 to 15 lead in the sec-| ond Os mainly on Jim Sulli-
New Albany's Bulldogs were
paced by Jim McLaughlin's 23) and Jon Richards. points as they stopped the stub-|
Lafayette overcame a 22-to-21 ‘| defici§ at the halftime and won
o Set the stage for the celebration. were born when the school made| channel allocations expected to
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Portoffice Indianapolis, Indiana, Issued Daily,
PRICE TEN CENTS
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» : 5 Ties Phote by John @oickiemire. SEAT OF THE MIGHTY-After Tech's players put their shoulders to the wheel and defeated
Shelbyville they put their shoulders to the coach. Sitting on top of the world and five Tech players is Coach Herman Hinshaw. His supporters are Ernie Sellers, Norm Wilson, Joe Sexson, Bud Wray
Charges Legion’s Rehabilitation Fund
Tech, Lafayette Jefferson, New| Albany and Muncie Central stand
Spent on Musical
‘Brawl’ Brews, Reports Army Service Paper
‘Airing’ Due at Headquarters Here -
By DAN KIDNEY Times Stat! Writer
WASHINGTON, Mar. 15 That the national finance committee of the American
on used funds raised from the 25 cents per member dues increase for rehabilitation to help pay the $800,000 dropped in show business was charged here today by “Army Times.” The veterans edition of the long established service paper published here, carried the headline, “Legion Brawl Brewing Over Dues Diversion.” Theres was
'a subhead saying “Surplus of
Rehab ' Dues Pay Losses on Musical.”
‘The “musical” turned out te be a turkey, after the Legion financed it and put it on the read. National Commander Donald Wilson was ‘out of the city” when the paper hit the street here and his administrative ase sistant, Willlam Hauck -of In. diana, had no comn
Washington Legion i “Trouble B n 4 ia 2 the
san
mately $275,
Victory Fire Leaps as Tech History Repeats
Tech
New Firm Bids ‘Repeats For Television
night as more than 2000 scream- tory to: repeat. But followers of)
ing, shouting fans danced around|the Greenclads think it was worth| a victory bonfire in a brief, but!the wait, | spirited celebration. | By now all Indianapolis knows
Confident fans—both pupils| Tech will be one of the Final Four and faculty members—Ileft thein Saturday's grand finale of on Another Arm has entered 1s Butler Fieldhouse at half-time state high school basketball tour. "ame in the scramble for two re jand returned to the campus to nament. Few present Tech pupils, maining Indianapolis area TV
town was aglow last]
Logs from woods behind the|its last trip to the finals in 1934. campus, were stacked on the! The pupils who weren't around = |north parking lot. Even the nightlin 1934 grew up‘to be proud, Federal Communications soon. |watchman and janitors pitched happy and hoarse-voiced. They Television Indianapolis, Inc., a lin to heap the pile to a 10-ft.'were a combination of all three 8roup of local individuals, filed height. |when Tech sank Shelbyville, 60-| articles of incorporation for the The team received the ovation 33, in Butler Fieldhouse last night.[néew firm with the Secretary of of the assembled throng from an| While their elders’ talked of State. open truck which was backed johnny Townsend & Co. Tech's| Their plans call for the conclose to the crowd. The cagersipyna| Four representatives in struction and operation of a very and Coach Herman Hinshawi 1934 the pupils raved about new high frequency television station.
come up in hearing before the
business. 3 st “The national rehabilitation commission is up in arms ‘over the apparent diversion and {8 expected to attempt to force return of the funds to the ‘restricted® re. habilitation category. “The $275,000 in excess rehabile itation funds was accumulated as a direct result of the actién of the 1049 national convention in voting to increase per capita dues 25 cents per member for ths exe clusive use of the Legion's re. habilitation program under "the direction and supervision of the finance and executive commite ees.” ’ Two Transfers Reported
The Army Times then states that the finance committee alone transferred the funds into the Legion's “unrestricted surplus” in Nov, 1950 and again in Nov, 1951. It charges that ldst November this shift of funds brought the
{gave an “exclusive” prediction Of heroes. The memory of Town-| Their planned initial investment {what would happen next weeK send and his friends moved over has been set at $750,000. All plans| When they ‘meet Lafayette: [to make room for Joe Sexson, |are contingent on FCC approval | Joe Sexson--“Wallop ‘em.” [Myron Garland, Al Northington,|of their application which will be! Earl Meadors— Fix ‘em. Bud Wray, Earl “Meadors and made soon. | Al Northington—“Play cool and {peir 1952 mates. ; : t win.” : ; : Other stations competing for Morris Wray—*Skin. ‘em.” Used to Winning, Now the two remaining channels as-| Myron Garland—‘Beat 'em."” There was little commotion signed here are WISH, WLW, of | Coach Hinshaw—‘ WIN." when Tech erased Shelbyville Cincinnati, WIBC and WIRE. : The crowd was wild in its en. from the tourney field. The, rpg 1ncal stockholders of Tele-| thusiasiam. - Cars packed Mich- Greenclads and their fans were | ion Indianapolis, Inc., will in-!| igan Street coming and going. used to winning, AMer the sec-| 1 4.1 § Ayres & Co Butler | Coach Hinshaw jumping from '10nal and regional, capturing the University, P. R. Mallory & Co.,
the excitement and crisp MarchiSemifinal was just a matter of, “po Station WXLW and| air was confident, course. Or so the Tech fanai, group of rivate individelo| “Jeff heat us in January hy though! '{dentified iE the ‘includi seven points. But we're: ready! Tech players were cool. They! praderie M a imei S| now, We'll play them our style cut down the nets with ease, Avres Jose h FE. Cain Dt dley v.! and on our floor,” the coach said. thanks to the practice they've had Sh f aep Xo axe Se . Tech can well claim the Butler for the last three weeks. And then utphin and Samuel R. Sutphin.| Fieldhouse as home after its they retired to their dressing Sa lease on the place for the “last room. Before his shower Sexson . three week delighted the crowd with some Be Happier—In The fire blazed high and the behind-the-back shnoting. He
voices echoed over the campus; wore 4 gregn and white lef and a
Your Own Home |
The team left and the crowd Krin that sfretched from ear to faded leaving the &atill glowing ear A home of your own ‘will | hlaze to the care of a police - Well, Sexson really wore more contribute to your happiness cruiser and fire truck standing than that. He also had on his nid in many ways. To name just | by. basketball uniform. Tech's gav- a few: In your own home you There was joy in Tech town Ng the new suits for its after. always add extra conveni- |
and as each fan left the campus his greatest hope in the world was that he will be on that same campus in front of anothlier victory fire next Saturday night.
noon game with Lafayette Jeff!
ences; you have the security | Saturday.
of permanence; the security | of saving toward future rentfree living and owning your own home IS more economical in the long run.
An Old Campaigner Shelbyvitte offered the usual picture of a loser's dressing room Coach Frank Barnes sat on ‘a bench and conducted a postmortem of the game. He wasn't
‘Burglars’ Make
. FIRST OFFERING 3-BEDROOM BRICK BUNGALOW
. q 1 aan’ A quality built home located Tracks for Police sad and, he wasn't glad An old most desirable neighborhood he tourney campaigner, he was in- tractive living room, dining room
cabinet kitchen. two hedrooms ba‘h, on first floor. Third bedroom and half bath on second. Oil heat; auto "water heater: two-car garage
full The report to police hid
“Burglary at 621" E. McCarthy
ured to what had received.
hig Golden Bears
St.” 80 the Greenclads "can look - F199, For Brper iotormation, call Investigation showed forward to the Final Four and a ‘Departing footprints of one Jinx. Tech has been to the Final ATKINSON & CO, small boy .and a dog Missing Four twice, 1929 and 1934. Each } was one sack of apples,’ time it lost in the final game.! Start shopping for Your
Your | more suitable home today. | Shown here is a sample ad from the many hundreds of
Sexson: and his mates hope the third time ix the charm.
Bandit Gets $30
A gunman took $30 from Paul
Man, 73, Critically
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Freeman, 19 of 9311, N. East home offerings you will find 8t., attendant at the Gaseteria in the big Real Estate Sec- | Station, 320 W. Michigan st, last Hurt by Car Here | tion of today's TIMES. |
night and fled (Many appear EXCLUSIVE- | LY in The TIMES.) Read | them over, you'll probably | find several you'll want to personally inspect. TURN NOW TO SECTION FOUR!
A 73-year-old man was critical: ly injured by a car last night as he crossed Park Ave. at E. Washington 8t. Taken to General Hos-| pital was John Wagner; who lives in a trailer in the rear of 116 N. Noble 8t. The driver was Claude
Man Robbed of $52
Cecil Sturgeon, 28, of 1469 N. Alabama 8t., told police he was robbed «of $52 early today by two men, one armed with a knife, as
he - walked on Ohio St. near Conner, 825 8. Lyon Ave., Mars Charley Festhurant. "oe Ohio. Bi |Capitol. Ave, x (Hill, 4 reg Ren Me bob
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cumulated would be used
Chase 8t., hurt in the -{dent, was in fair
surplus fund up to $524,368.63 and that this was used to “write off" the eosts of the Legion's musical, “Red, White and Blue.” Then the story continued: “Willlam Dwyer of New York, chairman of the finance commission and sole national official of
{the Legion not afraid to discuss
the matter, told Army Times that the money had not actually been expended, but had been written off as a surplus to repay a bank loan obtained to pay off the staggering ‘Red, White and Blue’ losses, Revealed. at Conference “Disclosure of the ‘secret’ finan< cial manipulations first came to light flere last week during the
29th Legion rehabilitation cone ference. Members of the confer lence promised to ‘raise hell’ and
force the finance commission and the national executive committees to return the diverted rehabilitation funds to the ‘restricted’ category in which they belong. “Although the 25 cents dues increase was sold to Legion rank-and-file members on the grounds that the money so iuce exe
clusively for rehabilitation
|purposes, the finance commission
holds that any excess of income over rehabilitation expenses is not to be considered a restricted item.” The whole matter is expected to be aired at national American Legion headquarters in Indiane apolis.
Accident Victim
Dies in Hospital
Indianapolis’ traffic toll so far this year mounted to 14 late yes terday when John Lee, 52, of 1116'; 8. Meridian St., died in General Hospital. ; - He had been injured earlier in the day when a car :in which he was riding rammed the Belt Rallroad overpass on Souths eastern Ave. : » Louis Sandefer, 42, of 52
ast nights