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182 Dead, New Tornadoes Feared

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By JIMMIE ANGELOPOLOUS Times Sports Writer Senator Charges BUTLER FIELDHOUSE, Mar. 22—Indian- ‘Untruths' Uttered apolis Tech, Lafayette Jeff, Muncie Central and $v Yened Foran New Albany reach the end of a glorious trail | wasHINGTON, * Mar. 22— Chairman Pat McCarran said to-

here today. : | Four of 760 schoolboy basketball teams invade this |d8Y the Senate internal security committee will decide soon

I polished pavilion for the finale of the 1952 state high whether to cite. far casterm exs school hardwood classic, but only one will reign supreme. |,..t Owen Lattimore for conThe king of Indiana's hardwood courts is still alive. tempt of Congress.

63d YEAR—NUMBER 10 : SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1952

Weather Bureau Says ‘Twister Conditions’ Prevail in Five States

By JOHN S. HASLAM

United Press Staff Correspondent

LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Mar, 22—The Weather Bureau today forecast the “possibility” of more tornadoes over a wide five-state area ringing the ruins left by vicious twisters that killed almost 200 persons and injured many hundreds yesterday. | — The death toll already had cluded 16 dead in the Dyersburg reached 182. |area; 14 at Henderson; Moscow, Devastated areas of southwest-'g: Bolivar area, 3; Bon Cord area, ern Arkansas, Mississippi, the(2: Chesterfield area, 1. southern corner of Missouri and| Yesterday afternoon and night parts of Tennessee were just the storms did their most savage

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Muncie Central defends its title after ascending the | The Nevada Democrat made new forecast was made, abreast — through southwestern throne last year the statement in the wake of his Friday's twisters came in under| Arkansas, Mississippi, the south . : : : stinging denunciation of the Johns boiling masses of clouds thatiern corner of Missouri and secs The Bearcats’ crown will be jeopardized by New Hopkins University professor for covered the southeast, turning|tjong of Tennessee. Albany's rampaging Bulldogs in the second game. Bat- |being “clearly . . . in contempt” Atlanta Huo 4 city of darkness a Three sebstale jurpadoss bore : | tling in the 1 p. m. tipoff fray will be Indianapolis’ Green- ae penale 2nd Lr mere Into the swirling vortex houses, among those killed was | clads of Tech, hoping to relieve the city of 42 years of |days of testimony before the com- humans, livestock and automo-|giate Highway" Patrol Ogt. Jos ! state title frustrations mittee. biles were caught up in a counter-| wyiamson who was speeding to 5 . clockwise tempest that added up S : Mr. Lattimoré promptly denied y the scene of the tragedy. izes Tech meets ever-dangerous n tat Lihat bb ith to the winter's worst disaster. Sgt. Williamson's car and two 14 to 20 Jefferson, a tourney-tempered, hear about today's results gm or 2 ans er So fierce was the power of the| paw: were blown hundreds of i 1 Savon Conqueror °f throughout Hooslerland and | Sen, McCarran told newsmen Winds that an Suamohiie bo ay feet into a field like so much ; : four neighboring Midwest that suggestions are “still pend- house was shaken from its foun. lumPleweed. Mr. and Mrs. Coy It's A Sellout states. |ing” before his committee to cite dations and rolled mcross a Mclaughlin and their three chilAs usual, this famed Hoosier The New Albany Chamber Mr. Lattimore for contempt of street. A state trooper, answer- Uren, ne of Je Sars: a extravaganza is a sellout. A of Commerce marshalled $4000 Congress and to send a transcript ing the call to disaster duty, was|, 0% bes (Le 1 ody of thelr capacity crowd of 14,943 fans to have WHAS-TV of Louisville Of the hearings to the Justice De- carried to his death when his car pee ts. chussl y will see both daylight tussles carry its .TV production into [partment for whatever action is was hurled end over end into a tar 1 8. Chassis. and Joniphi's 8:15 p. m. cham- tie bristling city of New [2 Tanted, Hise. h 5 field. Hurled Into Pond pionship finale. Albany. »| eé committee has been In- Toll by States T TV’ ive \ ennessee State Police Cpl. Ed Bra ays gi lets 2 ol Thirty-four radio stations, gan I Pe on] Arkansas counted 110 dead, Shelton said one of the three Dyer re eyes Ae rovide li See ng- feeding 16 other outlets, and since last winter in an effort to Tennessee 48, Missouri 15, Mis- County twisters picked up Mrs. l for es ha pe id go some 200 newspapermen, will determine if they played any part sissippi nine. W, E. Price and her 22-year-old HroUTao Todi Sean S send out their messages to the |," "AU. 8. foreign The weather bureau, - which|son and smashed them to thelr ter millio A or than loyal backers of the select four- nic. Mr. Lattimore is an IPR only recently started predicting/deaths in a pond 330 feet away by } a Sreioal en some, lirustee. for the public the general area from their home. Mr. Price and usiasts who have looked on Each of the Charmed Circle's of expected tornadoes, issued this another son who were not in the this Ingipna hardwood show as elite carries its own hopes for Red Charge Denied bulletin shortly before 11 a. m. house were seriously hurt. one of the nation’s best, will success. : Former Communist Editor today: derst i Tne sg ge : i “Thunderstorms aré occurringiand a number of lanes . . Louis F. Budenz told the com- over a widespread portion of|at the airport pa nL of ear Hog Disease Killed mittee last year that he knew : United Press Telephoto, Southeastern United States this Dyersburg were demolished or ; Mr. Lattimore to be a Commu-| . WIFE, SON KILLED—W. E. Brice, of Dyersburg, Tenn, whose wife and 17.ygar-old son, Eu- morning.” badly damaged. F » WwW * nist. Mr. Lattimore vigorously gene, were killed in yesterday's tornado, is comforted by his daughter, Mrs. Billie Clark. “There is a possibflity of tor-| Some towns were “wiped off armer; arnings ssue denied the charge and accused nadoes. occurring this afternconthe map” orf “laid fiat" as Hi L E x1 the committee. of Stacking the ¢ in central Kentucky, central Ten-|roaring winds chewed their way : ! State-wide warnings went out Richmond yesterday to. discuss > 8 | Saw T at House nessee, and extreme northernithrough the countryside on the today as health authorities re-|/the cause and effects of the dis. Vidence against him. When he Alabama, moving across eastern eastbound journey. ported the death of an Indiana| ease, sald animals’ deaths in La-|concluded his testimony late Kentucky and eastern Tennessee! The death toll was expected to man may have been caused by grange County were “suspect” Yesterday, Sen. McCarran read oA . a ‘ ’ to reach western Virginia andiciimb steadily as rescuers dug 9 2 anthrax, dread hog disease. |but not defnitely diagnosed as him a strongly worded statement . 0 ing owar S western West Virginia during theiinto the clutter of debris to reIndiana Health Board officials anthrax. (adopted unanimously Dy ‘the night. /move the bodies of those killed. oR said they were making a full in-| Dr. Elrod said another suspect STOUP. J Wa By GEORGE MILLER “Luther didn't make it. But I ¢ Red Cross sid it has allo- The Red Cross reported that 9 vestigation of the death, but as Case was in Wabash County and| While Mr. Lattimore listened United Press Staff Corresvondent [know there is nothing we can do|tated $250,000 for relief work and persons were killed in Byhalla, yet had not diagnosed it as def- definite diagnoses had shown an-|With a quiet smile on his face, . . SEARCY, Ark., Mar. 22—A 70-/but thank God that mother and/has sent 50 disaster workers, n- Miss, Mauve initely caused by anthrax. The iMmals died of anthrax in Union,/and Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy year-old woman and her daugh-|I, at least, were spared.” cluding doctors and nurses, into) The twisters snarled across the Pink disease strikes hogs and other tush, Wayne, Randolph, Wens 1K, Wis, aa old Latimore foe ommission ter told today how they watched Judsonia looked today $s the 19 counties of Arkansas, Ten- Missouri “bootheel” extending in livestock, but also is fatal to| iy ang Jay Counties. {5a Fag y, Sen. McCarran ac- in terror as a tornado rolled although it had been hit by two|nessee, Mississippi and Missourli gown into the area between Are humans. a “Irod said authorities aticused Mr. Lattimore of using neighbor's house toward them. |500-pound hombs and then shelled hit by the tornadoes yesterday. |kansas and Tennessee. The re- . The vietim, not identified hy the Richmond meeting did not{language “which was insolent,| A State Senate committee In- The daughter's husband was DY & concentration of artillery. The agency has sent 224 units|gion around Cooter, Mo., took the a 8 the officials, was a Lagrange Sonsider 2 roadblock or embargo|overbearing; arrogant, and dis- vestigating the present organiza- killed by ng stotn Stone buildings two storles|0f Whole blood and 274 units of brunt of the blow. b th County farmer. ou ies ock feed, which is be- dainful. tion of the Indiana Highway : : high were riddled with holes that|blood plasma from 8t. Louis, Mo.,| Dead from the Cooter area Indiana health officials pre- 1éved source of the epidemic in| “Clearly, Mr. Lattimore did, on Comission woond up a four-da The mother, Mrs. Julia York, sw coke could drive through. Frame|2nd Little Rock, Ark. into the'were taken to Caruthersville aa pared to go to Washington P€2rly 30 Ohio counties and many occasions, stand in con-|™ or P Ylitved with her daughter and SON- houses of two and three stories Affected area, |Steele, and Haytl, Mo and abla! Sizes Thursday tor a Meeticg about those in Indiana. (tempt of the committee,” Sen. session at: the Claypool Hotel'in jaw Mr, and Mrs. Luther Bart, which had stood more than a Yesterday's twisters started Biytheville, Ark. Seven were anthrax, which has killed hun-, Feed Destroyed McCarran. said. __ |today. in the nearby town of Judsonia jog years were destroyed. shortly after 3 p.m. During the counted at Steele, four at Hayti dreds of hogs and cattle, mainly “We do not anticipate the ., Ine Precise extent to which, mppe committee, which heard 24 where the twister struck hardest, reece eos next few hours they slashed a three at Caruthersville and one in Indjens 2d Obl, . uy situstion wil get any worse,” Dr. Ny rinmote gave untruthful witnesses, will compile a report in northeast Arkansas. y : path of death and destruction at Blytheville, ~ . r. Andrew utt, head o e Elrod said. He added that the in-| ‘cf : wo. |for presentation to the legisia- at > that leveled entire villages, and] , Downstairs division of eommunicable diseases fection had been traced to one Will never be determined, Sen. | tyre, ot es Rineii % “Toda S News crumpled houses like playthings. | Caught by Surprise in the State Board of Health, said féed manufacturer in Ohio and McCarran said. “That he has| wnat the committee will TeC- chair by the window in our living] Count Still Tentative |, There had been warnings from an associate who visited the La- that the suspected feed had been U'ter untruths stands clear on ,mmend then was still anybody's |. bout 5:15 terd gd Washington yesterday that the . grange area yesterday found no'destroyed and no further ship- the record.” | guess. {room a out 5:1¢ Xp m. yesieraay, . The death count still was ten-|area could expect severe wind. evidence to indicate anthrax was ments were possible. Lattimore Replies | But one member, who favored M ®: York wip ! Jooxed 001 1 @tive. And identity of all the storms, but many locations were responsible. Dr. Offutt said Dr. Jackson| an increase in the gasoline tax| Window and the sky seeme dead will not be established un-|caught by surprise. Dr. J. W. Jackson, director of visited Lagrange County with a Mr. Lattimore retorted. that, the petore the hearing, said today he #iZht On top of ‘the house, Ul sorrowing lines of relatives] Omer Henley, a Little Rock disease control, spent yesterday representative of the U. 8. Food Committee had used years-old would first reorganize the com-| ‘Then I noticed that the house finish their slow shuffle through|truck driver, was unloading groin the area. Dr. Offutt said the/and Drug Administration, a few (ocumentary evidence with the yigiaon for increased efficiency to across the street seemed to be Local and State emergency morgues — schoolceries when the twister roared man's death was not diagnosed hours after the board recelveg(iiieiiion of “ariiduislly ereating slash expenses. shaking and then it jumped off Page houses, public Hutldivgs, anyiting down on England, At, rt 8 . i w p 8s 88 / p ons : f " anding—to view the blood-|" was e most er - Er peter aS Anrep of le cam, lor evasion” on his part. The “un-| Feuding Charged |its foundations and hegan to turn Believe raid stymied gamblin Jett 5 8 peri

Mr, Elrod said the biggest prob-| over, | ‘comeback 2 and dust-caked bodies of the vic- shaped funnel you've ever seen in

. 2 truths”? ci by § : ~ 3 goer i SHOWER, ee nl ne 2 EC MOTeDRCK cise isanee sansnn ' tim’s brother. lem now for his department is, pi oie) Ya Meparran Many critics of the present .; 4 \y daughter ‘the house Howard Sams mixes business, tims. Pietives or anywhere,” he saul. Probe to Continue [to trace down every delivery of. qi. of memory” in answer to four-man commisison charge that ,.. .. {ne street has just blown: government . . . Hoosier | Hundreds of National Guards- ’ 00 He Fon 2d t out But he said the department the suspected feed in Indiana. He auestions ang i an: alts feuding Seen C hes m 2 nN away.’ | Profile .........c..0 00a... g men, State Police, Red Cross and oF ar ouasle ing bullding on would “continue the investiga- Said his department had reports voars and complicated events.” won b g! ® re Tha et. “Then the storm hil Our house JTRIZA member of ‘chock’ for. OLNEY CiVIRR Yeselie Workers Son) “It sounded like a hundred Btion” because some livestock in Of only 15 or 20 animals dying of sion member Jasper (Jap) Jones gery ring sentenced ....... 8 verged on the scenes of tragedy

Mr, Lattimore insisted he had ; “ My daughter shoved me to the 26" " the disease, but that many other peep has caused inefficiency. states. 36's flying low.

the same area died of an ailment were! (from many surrounding

“vigorous” but not “con- _ floor and it felt like we . ‘ All told, t 0 which may have been anthrax. animals had been destroyed by temptuous” before the committee. te per of the study commit: going to suffocate or be banged] Women's |Gov. 8id McMath of Arkansas ol old. ihe: {ormadoes Strick Dr. Roy Elrod, state veteri- their owner_ as a preventative! “I merely stood y re Wie to death against the walls be- Page |WeNt personally to the scene, He narian, who attended a closed measure when anthrax was found 'and h y 2 i a Savane non, Corydon: Willie XK. Batche- fore we could get out | AR® called for life-saving blood for State area, although the hard. ' 8 : f an arassing examination,” he ' ; p i = . 2 { : | it was h conference with Ohio officials at in a herd. vr] let, Angola; Ralph R. Ferguson, | Organize sinrage space for est hit was Arkansas where the

“ the critically injured. |Anderson, and. Noble Ellis, Or- I must have fainted because, .,, 4 utility, 1ast in John Pe- | : J twisters ripped diagonally

’ , ct t remember was " . | Rescue and cleanup operations leans. Sens. O'Bannon and Fer- He Te ng Eee pd ter's outdoor living serjes ... 8/,.0.o hampered by smashed com- (through the center of the state.

guson are Democrats, and Sens. : Riviera Club Boosters to |! d wreckage-! At Searcy, at least 250 perhusband, Luther, was pinned un-| {munications lines and wreckag |Batchelet and Ellis are Republi-| (07% © “00 and Pine shel . TEL Looiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin, clogged Woads. It was a joh to SONS were treated for injuries sane. \couldn’t get him out. [Junior Assply to give sup- |xeep thousands of curiosity seek- figereq when the twister hit EE ———— | “She picked me up then and] per dance .....iccv0n0uiun + 83ers out of the main lines of traffic A , ‘ A do de . : . , veloped at 6 3 ’ ran to the grocery store on the Midwest bridge tournament de {along which rescue crews had to a rs! Horna 9 Worst Blizzard corner. There waa nothing lett.” talls are listed wovuesi ivi, 3!move. Dierks ate 2:30 p. m. (Indianap-

but a pile of bricks. Some people The Arkansas toll included 11 0lls Time) yesterday in south-

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> . > Lashing Plains grabbed me and put me in a car Editorials |dead at Newport; Dierks, 7; Eng- Western Arkansas. It Yoarey By United Press Rv United Prose and took me to Searcy.” Page 1and, 4; Hickory Ridge, 2; Cotton like 2 razed bull easiwar t3Tos | FRANKFURT, Germany, Mar. OMAHA. Neb, Mar. 22--The| The daughter, Cora lee Barr, pn. ..q1ev warns much of Us (Rlant, 16; Hazen, 5; Searcy, 24 e state an nto e Bsee, 22—A four-engined Royal Dutch ad ” : od it the Keaapf sald that when her mother told Mu policy cah't | be [fpossibly 28); Bald Knock, 158; { ( ) ye wors nlizzare Af her about the storm, “I looked : {Judsonia, 16; Blytheville, 1; VannWet and Cold

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woods near here today, killing = iz .of head of catilelasl loveq my mother to the| py ay aerial SST 0" TEMPERATURES > , ” ousande.of he 4 : urt +o... ternnns : | MPE 8 142 of the 48 persons aboard. i starvation band ames for my hus {MoKinney's Short Term , , . ’ If You Want 6a.m...47 10 a.m... 47 | 8ix. survivors pulled from the, The early spring storm blasted| ‘Then the house was gone and An SCNONAL. srvrevrniriais . 7a.m...46 11 a m.. 48 flaming wreckage were taken to|across Kansas, Nebraska, the mother and I were Iyirg in the Nationalism is. ves) ature A Home to Enjoy Sa. Mm... 47 12 (noon) 1 a hospital. One was so severely pakotas, Iowa, and Minnesota front lawn, % | turn of Saga ele 1 Don't put it off any longer 9 2 m.. 47 J] p. m,.. burned it was feared he might die. pyrying the area with up t8%15 “I could see Luther's leg stick- How long before Tke sheds his | + + + |f You want a home to | , 0 poigiey ....... 99% The plane carried 38 passengers jnches of snow that drifted ing out from unde. what was uniform? by R. H. Shack- enjoy this springtime and Shih and 10 crew members. heavily before 55-mile-an-hour left of the foundation. I tried OPA = csi vv sivae er .... 10 every season for many years You'll need a slicker and tope The airliner was on a flight winds. to get him out’but I knew he was! tos come , , . coat if you've planned anything from Johannesburg, South Africa,! The blizzard was the same one dead. Forei n START YOUR for out doors this week-end. 10 Amsterdam, the Netherlands.ithat bit the Nevada-CoOlOragos — ie e——————— 9 . | SHOPPING TODAY The weatherman.said it will be It had stopped this morning at Wyoming area earlier this week. . | Page| ~~ 730 § HIATT wet and cold. He called for Rome and was coming in for a, At Hamilton Field, Cal, me- Man Seriously Hurt, | Peace talk accord near on 2. Bedroom bungaiow th good zon. showers and thunderstorms tos {landing at Frankfurt when it chanics readied Air Force cargo 8 : | ports of entry............. 6 dition. full basement and built-ins. day, then a drop in temperature, ripped into woods, spintered into planes to drop feed to thousands Another Held in Fight | : | Loar waragei” storm windows and yi), ve snow. flurries tonights |pleces and caught fire. of starving cattle-trapped In deep A o4 vear.old man was in seri-| National ITCRA WAL TERMIRE A high of 55 was forecast for | Amsterdam reports said- the snowbanks ing northeastern Ne- ,.. sqndition in General Hospital| Page —CA-014. 3330 W. 16TH. ( A-01¢ taday and low of 35.for tonight, \DC-8 was the one earmarked to vada. ‘today, and his companion Was Top officials huddle over issue This sample ad is one of the But tomorrow the mercury will (take Queen Juliana and Prince. Almost all bus and air travel ,...ctaq after a fight at the of steel price boost : many hundreds of home (continue to hover below 40. | Bernhard to the U. 8. for a state halted as the storm neared its \aciview Hotel, 55715 W. Wash-| ey arr values offered For Sale this In northérn Indiana the rain {visit Apr. 1. . full fury over the plains today. ;,. qt : : Other fe $ . week-end in the real estate will turn to snow flurries late toMotorists were warned that high-| pgiice were called to the hotel atures: n pages of . . . night. In the south the rain will Chiropractor- Acquitted ways were impassable. Trains early today by Lorris Johnson. Amusements .......... 9 | THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES continue until early lomorrow, ran hours late on main. lines and 54 ‘wp, Jed them to his room,| Eddie Ath ............ 18 | . Read over this wide selecBEDFORD, Mar. 22 (UP) — Many branch line trains were gp. virgil Wilson, 31, of 1005! Bridge ........ esse . 15 | ton of homes today and ar- Held as Deserter ; at R. 0. Dayton, Bedford chiroprac- ¢anceled. Fdison St, lay unconscious on: Churches ...... crssense 4, 5 | TONEO plot aanally_iuspeet Don L. Taylor, 27, of Indianap2 » {1 ntan Press Teleph vie tor, was found not uilty late _— . EE the floor. Comics. «.siness .e +14. 15 severa 8 week-end. nlis, was -arrested for desertion ; STARRY-EYED RIDE—Gen. James A. Van Fleet, command- yesterday of charges n practic- INDIANAPOLIS o _JoHnson said he had hopped ‘Editorials ....:.. reer 10.1 Don’t miss the big special oo no 11S Afr Force here ing general of the U. S. Eighth Army, smiles happily as he gives a ing without a license. The Indiana TRAFFIC CASUALTIES Wilson over the head with a hair, Forum ..... aviv sess 10 | Real Estate Section A last night by FBI agents. He ® piggy-back ride: to a young Korean child at the Columbian Chil. attorney general's office sought (81 Days) tonic bottle when Mr. Wilson re-| Hoosier Profile ........ 3 | SUNDAY ye gave his address as a downtown dren's Home in Seoul. Gen. :.Yan Fleet and other United Nations 2" injunction to prevent Mr. 1951 1952 [fused to leave his room, police re-| Movies ......cc.iprees 9 lions. PL aza 5581 10 firg Indianapolis hotel. Taylor was reicials visited -the .h 4 . Dayton from practicing. Mr. Day- 1631 ported. Radio, Television .vv.0e 15 venient home delivery first |... {; military authorities at officials visite e .home to present-$11,000 worth of clothin Accidents ..... 16¢ 1566 : Or- | ] ; | ) 9 it , | Societ thing Sunday morning. Or » urchased by the Far East chaplains with m “contributed b on was acquitted when four japjured ....... 101 704 Johnson was arrested’ on a BEY iis ciesevan 3 ; ent Ft. 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