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THURSDAY, APR. 17°

~ Cigaret Butt Traps ‘Phantom Sniper’ After He Fires At Los Angeles Wife

1952

. THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

United Press Telephotos.

CONFESSED SNIPER—Evan Charles Thomas.

Founder of

Religious

Groups to Speak Here

By EMMA RIVERS MILNER Times Church Editor Dr. Glenn Clark, who recommends that the President appoint a Secretary of Peace for the Cabinet, will speak here three times this week. Dr. Clark, St. Paul, will give addresses at 8

morrow and Saturday during the Interdenominational Spiritual Advance in the North Methodist Church. The speaker, who is the founder of those religious groups known as

Dr. Clark “Camps Farthest Out” and the

fiuthor of many spiritual books, is called often “the world’s greatest authority on prayer.” He is a former college athlete, coach and professor of English and creative writing at Macalester Col-| lege. Some 30 years ago, when Dr. Clark was teaching English and few persons knew he existed, he wrote down some of his thoughts on prayer and sent the manuscript to the Atlantic Monthly.

Caused Sensation

The article was accepted for publication and caused quite a sensation. The whole edition was sold out and the magazine editor

dresses, the meeting schedules a talk at 4 p. m. tomorrow by Mrs. Marcia Brown, Chicago. She is the wife of Dr. Roland Brown who is holding preaching. missions, now, in various countries of Europe. Another speaker will be Dr. John Biegeleisen, a Christian nlinister born of Jewish parents. Dr. Biegeleisen, who teaches “New Testament” in Eden Theological Seminary, St. Louis, will address sessions at 2:30 p. m. tomorrow and Saturday. The Spiritual Advance, spon-

tomorrow and Saturday In the North Church, 38th and Meridian Sts.

Law-Wise Pair Won't Go to Line-Up

Two bookworm prisoners today refused to go to police line-up so the lineup will come to them.

James P. Marshall and Chester Blanton, both 28, were arrested here on robbery charges while out of prison on bond. They are held in Marion County jail. Police went to the jail this morning to take Marshall and Blanton across ‘the street to police

sored by the “Camps Farthest Out,” opens at 5 p. m. today and continues with meetings all day

and readers urged that the author| headquarters for questioning by expand his piec2 intoa book. This detectives and viewing by holdup he did calling it: “The Soul's|vietims. The prisoners balked. Sincere Desire.” | “It ain't legal,” cried Marshall “Real prayer,” insists Dr. Clark, and Blanton, who studiéd law in|

#does not consist in clasping one’s| | Indiana prison while serving rob-

By United Press

"LOS ANGELES, Apr. 17—

Authorities closed the case of Los Angeles’ “Phantom Snip-

er” today with the arrest of a railroad switchman who said he killed one woman and terrorized six others with rifle fire because “I got a thrill out of it." After stocky, soft-spoken Evan

Charles Thomas, 28, was arrested, _

police said he confessed the long series of ambush shootings that puzzled officials for a year. He was arrested after a rifle bullet was fired at Mrs, Joan Frances Hiles, 22, Tuesday night as she sat in her Los Nietos home. He is alleged to have told sheriff’s officers “When I shoot

at women, I get excited and get |

a thrill out of it.” While he was being questioned about the shot fired at Mrs. Hiles 10 minutes after he left her home, Thomas, father of two young children, suddenly blurted out that he killed Mrs. Marie Bice, 25, as she sat sipping coffee in an east Los Angeles hamburger stand last Aug. 29, officers said.

List of Shootings

Sheriff's Capt. Floyd Rosenberg said Thomas then confessed wounding Mrs. Mae Kreutzer, 21, in the lung while she was telephoning from an outdoor booth on Aug. 27; shooting 10-year-old Patricia Ellen Bryant in the forearm as she was waiting for a school bus on Oct. 16; wounding ‘Mrs. Irma Alice Megrdle, 40, as she worked in the garden of her home Nov. 23, and shooting Mrs. Audrey Murdock while she was ironing in her kitchen Dec. 286. He also admitted firing a shot that narrowly missed Mrs. Lloyd M. Walter in her home last Aug. 28, Capt. Rosenberg said. Officers said Thomas visited Mrs. Hiles and her husband, John, Tuesday night and spent the evening with them, saying his wife had gone to visit friends. After he left, a shot was fired through the front window of the Hiles home. The bullet plowed into a couch where Mrs. Hiles had been sitting only a few moments before.

Find Cigaret Butt

The Hiles called sheriff's deputies, who learned that Thomas had left only a few minutes before the attack and then telephoned Mrs. Hiles to say that he heard a shot and wondered if Mrs. Hiles was hurt. Deputies rushed out to his home and took him into custody. At Norwalk sheriff's sub-station they showed him a cigaret butt found outsides the Hiles home and told him, “You might as well confess.” “All right, I did it,” he replied, officers said. He took officers to his locker at! the Los Angeles railroad yards| and turned over a 22-caliber Winchester rifle he said he used in the attacks. Deputies said Thomas them he bought the gun nearly a year ago and kept it under the rear seat of his car. “I started cruising around at night, the biggest part of the

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time when my wife and children |

hands together and mouthing a| few pious phrases It consists In putting one’s entire self—body, mind and soul—in complete alignment with God, giving Him complete control of every area of one’s life and letting the Powers| of Heaven have their unobstructed way in the affairs of men.’ To be a successfuily praying] person, Dr. Clark points out, the)

one who prays needs training. |

Discipline is required just as it is

for a football player preparing,

for a hard game, he said. Formed Training Camps

Because he believed this sincerely, Dr. Clark established training) camps for those wishing to learn to pray and modeled them after the training camps he once conducted for football players. The training spots are called “Camps Farthest Out.” Thirty of the camps now are operating. | Groups also meet throughout the year in many places, including Indianapolis Mrs Guy Boyd is president .of the local C. F. O.

group.

| bery terms. They started a little sitdown strike. Detectives James Burford and Elmer Hueber re-crossed the street, huddled with Capt. Robert [Rellly. “Those guys know their law,| land we don't want to give them | | grounds for a duress plea,” Capt. ReillPNsaid.

Line-Up in Jail

So he called Sheriff Smith and arranged for the lHne-up to be staged in the jail this afternoon. | Meanwhile, ballistics tests were {being made on a 32-caliber re-

{volver police said they found in| They were check-|

Blanton's car. ing to see if it had any connec-| tion with the 32-caliber bullet which killed Gaseteria Attendant Thomas Lynch here Feb. 5. Marshall, 7777 W. Washington St., and Blanton, 706 E. Minnesota St., were serving 10-25-year {terms for a 1946 Gaseteria hold{up here. They won an appeal for {new trial last year, and were freed on $1000 bond. Now they're held under $10,000 sbond from Municipal Court 4 on tcharges arising from the Mar. 13

Dr. Clark urges that a De-,,14,n of a restaurant here. Popartment of Peace, a Secretary of j;,4 gaiq five filling station atPeace, a West Point for training tonqants identified Marshall as an “air force for peace” and athe man who robbed them in reSpiritual Embassy in Washington cent months after asking -to buy be established. Thus tremendous a radiator hose or other articles. effort would be made for peace pjlice added Marshall and commensurate with what is done Blanton have kept mum to quesin the area of war, he feels. tions. All these idealistic suggestions

gome from a man who expresses a ,. heartening view of today’s world. Piano Teachers

“I believe that there is a great spiritual ground swell sweeping] Elect Tomorrow

over America right now prepar-|

The Indiana Piano Teachers

ing the way for Jesus to take Guild will meet at 10 a. m. to-|

complete control in just this way morrow at Pianos, Inc., 1549 N.! if our leaders would only let Meridian 8t., for election of Him,” was Dr. Clark's comment. | | officers.

; Cites Indications | Retiring are: Lee Blazer, presi- : 1 ' The Billy Graham meetings, the dent; Masbelle Hendlemann, vice

president; Pauline Clark, secreChristopher, Moral Rearmament . and Laymen’s Movements and| 27+ Mildred Jarvis, correspond.

other religious activities were{/I€ secrelgry, and. Margaret cited as indications of the spirit- : :

oo es MORRISONS

Dr. Clark, now 70, still turns| Indiana's Foremost

out a book a year. He is president of the Macalester Park Pub-|}: lishing Co. in his home city which|

distributes hundreds of thousands of pieces of religious literature! Appa rel Shop each year. : 20 W Washington St. In addition to Dr. clarks ad i=

MISSED: HER—Mrs, Joan Frances Hiles points fo bullet hole.

“She had a cup to her face. 1 aimed at it. I wanted to knock the cup out of her hand, but I hit

were visiting her mother in San Gabriel, Cal.,” they quoted hin as saying. Asked why he killed Mrs. Bice, a total stranger to him, Thomas is declared to have sald he was driving past the hamburger stand when he saw “this girl.” “I sort of wanted a date with her, if you know what I mean, so I stopped about 500 yards away land went into an alley with the rifle.

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her in the head” quoted him as saying. Deputies said he told them he shot Mrs. Kreutzer “on an im-

authorities

random,” His wife, Hester, an expectant mother, sald she did not know her husband had the rifle and “I can’t understand why he did it.”

Speeder Puts Zip In Wheel Chair

BRIGHTON, England, Apr. 17 (UP)—Joseph Griffin was fined one pound ($2.80) in court yesterday for speeding. Witnesses said he passed two cars, one going 35 miles an hour, the other 41, Grifin was driving a motor Azed wheel chair.

= City Truck Driver Sues Railroad for $150,000

cember,

of the truck.

Through his attorneys, Alvah J. Jr.

Rucker and James HE. Roca

Lay Off the Water

DETROIT, Apr. 17 (UP)—Mrs. {Bertha Lanstra, who celebrated]

ing plain water. “Don't get Me/

| wrong, I don’t mean liquor,” she {sald stoutly. tea, and maybe a little beer.”

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An Indianapolis truck driver has sued the Chicago, Milwaukee, (St. Paul & Pacific Railroad for $150,000 as the result of a train(truck collision in Oolitic in De-

The suit was filed in Federal

Court here by Jesse N. Dawson, 41, of 2134 N. Delaware St., driver

Mr. Dawson charged the raflroad with negligence in ‘the crossing

Plans for a community ir

31st (Dixie) Division now arriv- "| ing at Camp Atterbury were an-| nounced today. ; Mayor. Clark announced May 5 will be proclaimed “Dixie Day in Indianapolis” and urged all citizens to offer the hand of Hoosier hospitality. Included in events set for the day are a downtown parade and concert by the 31st Division band, clad in their colorful Confederate uniforms. A morning “coffee reception” has been set for soldiers and citizens to get acquainted and a flag exchanging ceremony will take place at the State Capitol. The reception will be held at the Indianapolis Service Men's Centers, Inc, 111 N, Capitol Ave, which will also sponsor the highlight of the welcoming program ~—a dance that night at the in diana Roof Ballroom.

The “Dixie Day Ball" will be the tradition of “The Old South”, with Hoosier belles, of the Serv-| ice Men's Center cadet regiments, attired in flowing gowns in keeping with the theme,

Exchange of Gifts

‘Special buses with police escort will bring the 106-piece division band and honor guard from Camp Atterbury. They will start in front of The Indianapolis Times, 214 W, Maryland St., and march to the Statehouse for a welcome by Gov, Bchricker,

Maj. Gen. A. J. Paxton, division commander, will present a Confederate flag to Gov. Schricker, the gift of the governor of Alabama. In turn, Gov. Schricker will present the unit with an Indiana flag to be flown by their honor guard during the division's stay in the Hoosier state. The Indiana banner will fly with the streaming flags of Alabama and Mississippi and the Stars and Bars, traditional with the unit's origin in the deep south. Although designated by the Army as the “Dixie” Division, most of the men now serving in it come from Northern states, but are strong in continuing the traditions of the famed BSouthern unit. Following the Statehouse ceremony, the formation will move to the Service Men's Center for the coffee and get-acquainted ses

sion. A Flag for Clark A cross-section of civic leaders

{attend the “Dixie Day Ball”

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Big Fete Planned Here’: Speck Hers 5

-Wilson, W Be for the United will ada address the 18th annual con= vention of the Hoosier

ivision Gls Press Association here Apr.

maneuvers as the strains of|{t was announced today. © ‘Dixie” echo in the canyons of Arthur H. Motley, publisher nt downtown office buildings. Parade Magazine, will speak at a Later in the day, GIs of the di- luncheon, and David snd

Lyle

| vision will be trooping to town to| science editor of The Indian at! Times and other Serippsthe Indiana Roof which will last newspapers, at a dinner, both on from 8 p. m. until midnight. the opening day of the session.

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and another Confederate flag, gift of the governor of Missisnppk will be presented to Mayor

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accident.

Mr. Dawson said the gasoline told her 102d birthday today, attrib-/tanks on his truck were ignited in utes her long life to never drink-|/the crash and he received third

‘degree burns.

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