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MONDAY, JUNE 23, 1082.

Body Found Nearly Naked In Her Hotel

ST. LOUIS, M Mo, J June 23—| The: Latin lover of Mrs. Wil-! |

liam E. Thompson was hunted

today on charges that he slashed and strangled her, then left her nearly-naked body in a hotel room where they held nightly rendezvous unknown to her husband.

A nationwide police alert was

sounded for Jose (Joe) Bartolome Romero, 28, who was once Mrs. Thompson's pupil at a dance studio, Mrs. Thompson, 30 - year - old mother of a 2-year-old daughter, was found dead Sunday in a bottle-littered room at the Jefferson Hotel where she had been taking a “vacation” from her home. She had been beaten, gashed

with a broken soda pop, battle and strangled with an iron cord.

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Hunt Lover In Slaying Of St. "Lovis Dancing Teach

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Her body, clad only in panties, |

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knelt on two pillows and a blood-!

soaked blanket. Husband Flies Home

The body was found by a bellhop who went to the room ‘when Mrs. Thompson's husband, employed by a cereal company, telePhoned from Boston where he had gone ona business trip. He flew home today. He was Quoted as saying he never had| heard of Mr.- Romero. In the hotel- room, officers found a sketch of a Spanish dancer with an inscription, in| Spanish: “Why. don't we dance the samba?” A murder charge was filed! against , Romero. on information furnished by Romero’s roommate, whose identity was not disclosed, and Robert Penny, 24, who worked as a dance instructor at the same studio as Mrs. Thomp-| son.

Mr. Romero was believed i

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Mr. Penny safd Mrs. Thompson, | & pretty, brown-haired woman, confided to him ‘a year ago that she ‘was earrying ‘on an affair with Mr. Romero. ‘Last Thursday, he said, Mrs.| Thompson asked him to meet her and she told him she had eet ha the affair with Mr. Romero and feared the Mexican would tell her husband about it. Mr. Penny said he warned Mrs. Thompson that her secret love would be discovered. She replied, Mr. Penny said: “I know it, but| I won’t do anything about it.” Mrs. Thompson, according to Mr. Penny, told him she was on “a ‘sort of vacation” in a double room at the hotel and intimated that Mr. Romero visited her there nightly. She said her mother, Mrs, Annie Harris, was caring for

Kirkwood home.”

State Industrial Workers Drop

Indiana’s approximate 1.3 milHon total of nonfarm workers at mid-May was below the April level, according to preliminary estimates released today by the Indiana Employment Security Division in co-operation with the U. 8. Bureau of Labor Statistics. In May, mainly because of the petroleum industry strike, mantfacturing employment fell below the 600,000 worker mark for the first time since July, 1950. Although manufacturing in-

yesterday morning in 20 feet of

2 Local Men Drowned In Motor B

. Joyce made mm Ave. they both : wars .Enrown, bri "lice said neither man 4 the surface. . Couldn’t Find Them Br Undid Betas iy Mr. Joyce told police ‘he stop-! goo PAULO, Brazil, June 23—

ped the I immediately asd

_circled back to. pick up the t

" men, but couldn't locate them. Both men were considered good Swimmers.

Their bodies

water about 100 feet off Indiana Beach, while hundreds of week-

+= Police Hosi2

were recovered

oat Mishap

{Reinforced police and marine: “0 units were reported today. to be.

convicts who fled to the mainland last Friday from the nearby. An-

closing in on nearly 100 escaped! |

chieta Island Prison, where des- J

went to lunch

{agent C. H. Carson.

STRAUSS SAYS:

Mr, Olsen, father of two chil-

en. will be reork.

perate criminals are kept.

Two of the tugitives were killed

United Press Telephoto.

ROGER—Aileen Chase, Great Britain's entrant in the "Miss Universe" contest in Long Beach, Cal., checks the controls of the Pan American Clipper that brought her and 14 other contestants to Long Beach yesterday.” With her is Pilot George Quatsoe,

end vacationers looked on.

had no children.

Warn Thei Robbers who demanded their victims “look natural” kidnaped two service ‘station. attendants in| {separate robberies here early today and yesterday. In both “jobs, ”“ the robbery team used. small caliber automatics and hauled their victims away ‘in stolen cars. George E, Pierce, “TNT Bevine Ave, night” tion attendant at 2201 N. Capitol] Ave, said the two men . drove,

MURDER.

On the Highways

JASPER — Donald Knies, 17, Jasper, died yesterday when the car in which he was riding struck] a tree along 1 Ina. 45 Dear! here,

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‘Look Natural,’ Thugs

2 Victims

their car up to the station door

at 5:30 a.m. today.

Both drew their guns at him, “Look natural and

one stating, I won't kill you.”

The other repeated, “Lock nat-| ural, act natural and you won't

get hurt.” . Forced Into Car

eres. mts. Behe

robbers" drove. him to Kenwood

Linton. Services will be at 3 p. Wednesday in the Harry W. Moore Peace Chapel ‘here.

and Mrs. Hallie Lynn, Linton and two ' sisters, Miss Lynn, Indianapolis,

Mary Lynn, Linton. Served in War

jlattve 0: 4 two years ago.

Jasper, Tenn.,

- ‘Both men were married, but

A native of Linton, Mr. Lynn is a veteran of three years duty in the Army during World War II, including combat in France and Germany. He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars aim and the Ellis Church of Christ,

m. |

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Barbara Lynn; his parents, Mr.

Meeda recaptured. They said they feared and Miss

A veteran of 12 years service | |swim ~ ashore in the -shark- in waters. ;

with the Navy, Mr. Knight rh

He served for four years in the ic ry

and nine recaptured in last night's pitched battle with police and marines which took ' place: near Parati township in Rio De Janeiro. state. The convicts broke § off the fighting and retreated in-|. land into the Las Matas region. Authorities said the men were|" ed with sub-machine guns, rifles, pistols ‘and grenades obtained .in' their break in: which, some reports said, more than 100 {persons were killed: | Authorities estimated that nearly 50 of: those who .escaped| 4 from the prison —"'known 4s Brazil's “Alcatraz” — have been

the prisoners had slain 100. or| | more of their comrades in the break for ' freedom, and that! lothers drowned ' attempting to

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|Ave. and Fall Creek Pkwy. Orde ling him out of the car, thay. told Ini to return to the station. Police found the stolen kidnap-

fr a few minutes later, -aban- |

/doned in the 400 block W. Fall {Creek Pkwy. Mr. Pierce said an-| 'other pair of. stick-up men: had taken $25 from him only three weeks ago.

5 Early yesterday, a pair of hold-| | chie, Tenn.; eight brothers, James

up men, believed by police to be,

Pacific during World War II, and’ returned. to ‘active duty for one

{year in the waters off Korea. He Baptist

was a member of . the Church in -Sequatchie, Tenn. . Services will be held

neral Home in Jasper, Tenn. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. |

Roberta Knight; his parents, Mr,

|and Mrs. J. M. Knight, Sequat-

H. and Doyle H., Ft. Wayne;

HUNTIN GTON—Weldon Dean the same two, grabbed $35 from | Thurman H. and William E., In-

Lassiter, 20, Warren, |yesterday when his car ran. off]

a dead-end county road nine miles tra) Ave.

south of here and overturned.

19, Marion, died in Marion General Hospital yesterday of in-| juries suffered earlier when the, car in which he was riding struck a bridge on Ind. 15 near here. Mr. Miller was president of the) Indiana University. freshman class.

Above and Beyond

LONDON, June 23 (UP)—A mounted guard stationed at the Whitehall entrance of the Horseguards Parade Grounds sat silently astride his horse for 20 minutes yesterday, blood pouring from his nose, He refused to answer a policeman, who finally noticed the blood A guardroom officer, notified by the policeman, ordered the man to dismount and. be relieved. “I couldn't move or talk,”

dustries had nearly 9500 fewer, employees in May than in April! nonmanufacturing employment | was heading upward to an este mated 738,700 workers at the middle of the month’ One of the manufacturing group, ordnance, continued expansion and was! termed “Indiana's fastest grow-| ing industry.

IU Expert Prepares | D. C. Police Ethics Code |

Times State Service BLOOMINGTON, June 23—| Police in Washington, D. C., will be governed by a code of ethics] prepared by Don L. Kooken,| police administration department head at Indiana University, it)

_ was announced today.

The university learned the code had been adopted after a Senate District of Columbia crime sub-| committee uncovered a rash of!) unsavory incidents involving police officers. The subcommittee found many Washington police-| men had accepted cash payments and gifts “of all kinds.”

the blood-spattered guard explained. “It's against orders.”

IU Schedules PTA Conference Tomorrow

te Service BLOOMINGTON, June 23 — (Mrs. Jack C. Greig, Indianapolis, | president of the Indiana Congress lof Parents and. Teachers, will par-

ticipate in the PTA leadership-| leducation cohference starting at

{Indiana University here . tomor(row. Besides educators from throughout Indiana, speakers will include Herold C. Hunt, superintendent of Chicago schools, and Dema Kennedy, field consultant.

Falls to Death Times State Service VINCENNES, June 23—A 22-year-old man fell 70-feet to his death from an oil derrick five miles south of here yesterday, A {short piece of metal pierced the chest of Earl Patterson, Mt,

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was killed Everett Nance, 19, of 1301 Pleas-| dianapolis; Rostoe F.,

lant St,

They drove Mr. Nance around

MARION—Philip Robert Miller, the North Side for about 10 min. Chi:

utes. then gave him. $1 ‘“for| streetcar fare” and left’ him two, blocks from the station. « | As in today’s case, police found; {the car used by the robbers’ parked nearby. -

Yeges Take Safe and $150

Strong-muscled yeggmen took

from the Garnett Market, 1928 N. Rural St, over the week end, police reported today. The burglars got into the store by chopping a hole in the roof, police said. An ax and a crowbar were found on the roof. John Garnett, 48, of 2845 N.| Denny 8t., owngr of store, said | the men also took 75 cartons of cigarets. ; The theft was discovered by Charles Hepler, 19, of 5432 E. 10th St, a clerk, when he opened je market yesterday morning.

Two Suspects Held In Company Thefts

| Two men faced preliminary lar-|

ceny charges after police found their rented ,horse-drawn wagon {contained pipe and seven sections of conveyor belt belonging to two East Side companies. Arrested were Elredge Partee,; 25, of 313 N. West St., and Ben T. Haynes, 29, of 317 Blake St. The pipe, taken from the National Chemical Co., was valued at $50, and the conveyor belt sections, belonging to Dura-Crate {Ine., was valued at $150.

INSIDE

How much do happening INSIDE

of the generation's porters.

Army in Korea, and J. C,, SequatTenn. and a sister, Beatrice Jones,

U.S. Cigarets Bring 50c a Puck

In Australia

BRISBANE, Australia, June<23| (CDN) — American cigarets are selling at a postwar peak price

of 50 cents a package here.

While their import is banned because of the dollar shortage, some ‘U. 8. cigarets confiscated from ships by Australian customs expected to attract representaagents occasionally appear on the local market. At customs sales the contraband smokes sell for around $3.37 a carton. Tobacconists mark up

this price by $1.68.

NY Student Claims

'Hitch-Hiking Record ANCHORAGE, Alaska, June 21 (UP)—William Rome, 17-year-old

college student from Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., claimed today to have broken the world hitch-hiking record. Mr. Rome, a freshman engineering student at Clarkson college of Technology in New York, said he hitched his way from Manhattan's 42d St. to Anchor-| age in 11 days. Mr,

Anchorage June 20,

the estimated 4400-mile jaunt.

VFW Per ow

ednesday afternoon at the Braden Fu-

Jasper, attendant at 1101 ‘Cen-| Tenn.; John L., Hopkinsville, Ky.; | Kenneth E. on duty with the

Mrs. Sequatchie, Tenn.

Clyde (Brick) . Miller,; Greencastle, was elected state . com-/ mander of. the Indiana Depart-| ment, jm the organization’s final meet{ing of its ‘31st annual encampment, 4 Two Indianapolis men . were elected to high state VFW posts. They were Richard.L. Roudebush, *'15229 E. 16th St., senior vice commander, and John G. Tinder, 91st St. and Shadeland Ave. judge advocate. Other top officers elected were Glenn C. White, South Bend, junior vice commander, and Orval C. Holycross, Attica, quartermaster, An Indianapolis VFW post, No. 1405, won an award. for ritual competition.

Farm Conference

LAFAYETTE, June 23 (UP)— More. than 1000 farm bureau lehders from Indiana and 11 other Midwestern states opened a 4-day annual conference at Purdue University Sunday. The Midwest conference, held in a different state each year, was

tives ‘from every county farm bureau in Indiana.

terans of Foreign Wars,

PURE SILK : SLACKS

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18.50

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Bank Teller Admits Taking $38,000 of Bank Fond _

LOS ANGELES, June 23 (UP) funds in New York last January the Chemical" Bank ang -—A former Brooklyn, N.Y. bank|and “just kept going.” teller was to be arraigned today on embezzlement - charges after dren, whs arrested as he searched he told federal agents that $38,-/ for some of the stolen funds he| took him to Baltimore, 224 taken from the bank went'had hidden here, for women and high living. Martin. Gjlbert Olsen, 37, ad- son, said Mr, mitted to ‘the FBI when he was! turned to New arrested here Saturday that. he!

said. Mr. Car-|geles.

UITS fine, smooth. shantung. type

weaves—and the nubbier lofty raw silks!: Luxuriously comfortable

(The Jackets serve in a

superlative way as Sports Coats) Rich! Recherche! Reasonable! Silk -Suits from Kingsridge—79.50 From Gilbert of California—$77 Customized by Hickey Freeman

$145

L. STRAUSS & CO. THE MAN'S STORE

Co. in a paper-bag. . . He-told ban olfidals 28'S

instead he began a

reserve: cash was.

Bank officials xam te 1)

The FBI said Mr. Olsen ad- hour overdue and «di with ‘the bank mitted taking the money out-ot|

‘MY WIFE

TOOK ITA

Rome said he left New York City June 9 and reached) averaging more than 400 miles a day for

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